Her insights are regularly featured in the press -- including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Bloomberg. Katherine Watt is a CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking.

Kiah Treece is a small business owner and personal finance expert with experience in loans, business and personal finance, insurance and real estate. Her focus is on demystifying debt to help ...

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Laura Kreutzer oversees a team of editors and reporters that cover private markets, particularly private equity, for WSJ Pro, The Wall Street Journal’s professional newsletter group. Her team's ...

kate_sept2004 / Getty Images A home equity line of credit (HELOC ... many borrowers who used this method found their homes in foreclosure. Mortgage lending discrimination is illegal.

One alternative, if you own a home that has accumulated some equity, is to take out a home equity loan. But doing so has some serious risks. Mainly, you risk losing the home you used as collateral ...

If you own your home, your home equity may make it possible to access a significant amount of money when you need it. In fact, the average homeowner has around $206,000 of tappable equity in their ...

Within the firm's mutual fund business, which represents the majority of its assets, the value and growth equity franchises oversee some of the firm's best-rated funds. They have shown prudent ...

Katherine Watt is a CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking. She previously wrote about personal finance for NextAdvisor. Based in New York, Katherine graduated summa cum ...