Home equity can represent a double digit boost to retirement income for those that are mortgage free, suggests a study released Monday by Statistics Canada.

Americans in the 2nd quarter took out $8.3 billion in home equity, the smallest amount in a decade

Americans in the second quarter tapped the smallest amount of home equity in a decade, showing households are focused on repairing tattered finances.

Private equity is a deeply unloved asset class. For many, it embodies all the ills of high-tech capitalism: returns earned through a smokescreen of debt, financial engineering and rising valuation multiples rather than productivity or innovation.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta today released unaudited financial highlights for the quarter ended June 30, 2010. The Bank will announce full second quarter 2010 unaudited financial results in its Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is expected to be filed on or about ...