From debt to investing, The Globe's smart student money section

In the University of Western Ontario employee pension plan, the youngest members are among the most safety-conscious as investors

The Globe and Mail Gen Y Investing Guide will help you dodge fees and commissions

Experts weigh in on the different ways young adults can build wealth for retirement, depending on their particular situations

Slightly more than 42 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 20 to 29 lived at home with their parents. Can these members of Generation Y afford to strike out on their own?

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How long will it take you to break into the housing market? Find out with our new interactive tool.

Advice for students who want to borrow prudently for an education

Whatever great life experience a young adult gains while away at school will be crushed by the drudgery of what could be a decade or more of post-graduation debt repayment

A prudent student will cap the amount she borrows to pay for postsecondary education at a level that is related to the income she expects to earn later

Home ownership is traditionally viewed as the only sensible choice – but that may not be true in today’s housing market

Price gains are steep, but not permanent, and nothing that can’t be addressed by an aggressive savings regime

Urging first-time buyers to regard a 10-per-cent down payment as the minimum and ensuring they plan to stay put for 10 years would help Canada’s real estate market cool off

Job hunting isn’t free, as our Gen Y blogger quickly found out after graduation

I had some high expectations regarding the relationship status my bank account and I would have on the one-year anniversary of my graduation, our blogger writes

With student debt barelling behind her, our blogger decided that she needed to get a job - fast

Rob Nettleton’s strategies include eating in, paying monthly bills gradually rather than all at once, and automating his monthly investing deposits

Guelph duo stuck to their frugal ways after graduation to pay down loans faster

Justin McGee Odger had a number of different part-time and summer jobs throughout high school and university, including working at various restaurants, a crane company warehouse and driving an ice-company delivery truck

Don't expect to immediately walk into an exciting and fulfilling job. Entry-level work is often tedious and tough

When you look on paper like all the other new graduates, here are four tips for catching an employer's attention

Young women should be better trained in salary negotiation and income expectations if pay equity is to be achieved