4 Sites With Financial Advice Targeted to Hispanics

This giant and still-growing demographic can benefit from targeted personal finance information.
By Brian O'Connell ,

NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The U.S. Hispanic population is growing, and significantly so.

According to the Pew Foundation

, the Hispanic population has grown to almost 52 million in 2011 from 35 million in 2000.

Of that 52 million, Pew says approximately 33 million are foreign born, or about 6% of the total U.S. population.

To newcomers of any nationality -- and America, after all is a nation of immigrants -- finding their way culturally and professionally is difficult enough. Add money to the mix and assimilating only grows more difficult.

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Think about it: Newcomers to the U.S. deal with a new currency, a new language, a new banking and investing system with its own sets of rules and regulations and a new tax system that, no doubt, changes the way immigrants look at money management.

For the growing Hispanic population, a quick and effective path to great personal finance skills is all about education, which is what's offered by the Washington, D.C.-based

Alliance for Investor Education

, a consortium of U.S. finance-related groups that includes foundations, nonprofit organizations, associations and governmental agencies.

More specifically, the AEI is out with a list of the best available money management resources for U.S.-based Hispanics. The list is culled primarily from the AEI's list of member financial services organizations.

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Here are some savings and investing resources for Hispanics that made it on the AEI list (with a more detailed list

here

in Spanish):

The Ballpark E$timate en espanol/Ballpark E$timate in Spanish -- American Savings Education Council/Employee Benefit Research Institute

-- The AEI describes the site as "an easy-to-use, two-page worksheet that helps you quickly identify approximately how much you need to save to fund a comfortable retirement."

Estafas y chantajes: Una Guia educative para prevenir frauds financierios/Scams and Swindles: an Educational Guide To Avoiding Investment Fraud

-- This website, from the National Futures Association, warns Hispanics new to the United States about some of the more onerous financial and investment

scams

out there -- and how to sidestep them.

Declaracion de los deroches de los inversionistas/Statement of Investor Rights

-- The CFA provides Hispanics a helpful guide on how to deal with a professional financial services provider and details the code of conduct those providers must adhere to when dealing with financial consumers.

Sitio web de Hispanic America Saves/Hispanic America Saves Website

-- The Hispanic America Saves site, sponsored by the Investment Company Institute and FINRA Education Foundation, advises Hispanic financial consumers on how to open a bank account, craft a good household budget and start saving and investing for the long haul.

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