May 30, 2017 | Do You Know, Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans
“Clues to a Ruse. Don’t even consider outfits that bid jobs sight unseen, that answer the phone with generic greetings such as ‘movers’ rather than a specific company name (unscrupulous movers use multiple names to elude angry customers), or whose websites list no...
May 25, 2017 | News, Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans
With apologies to the classic film “The Graduate,” here’s our one word for today: plastic. “Having credit card issues? At least 26,600 other frustrated people are right there with you,” writes Maria Lamagna in an interesting piece for marketwatch.com. “The Consumer...
Apr 16, 2017 | Asset Allocation, Do You Know, Planning for Longevity, Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality
“A CRR analysis finds that total wealth from retirement plans has largely been flat from 1992 to 2010,” notes a piece in thinkadvisor.com headlined Future Retirees Could Be More Reliant on Social Security. “Employer-sponsored retirement plans are providing less...
Mar 26, 2017 | Boomer Retirement, Planning for Longevity, Protect Your Family
“While it can be said that women have come a long way in the last few decades, they continue to face many social obstacles, not least of which is preparing adequately for retirement,” writes Lee Barney for plansponsor.com, citing the Transamerica Center for Retirement...
Mar 19, 2017 | Do You Know, Planning for Longevity, Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality
“Americans share a bipartisan concern over their retirement security,” writes Hazel Bradford in a Pensions & Investments piece, citing a survey [released Feb. 28] by the National Institute on Retirement Security. Bradford continues: “A poll of 800 Americans age 25...
Mar 13, 2017 | Boomer Retirement, Health Care Costs, Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality
“Americans are taking on a lot more debt,” writes Kathryn Vasel for cnn.com. “Total household debt climbed to $12.58 trillion at the end of 2016, an increase of $266 billion from the third quarter, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. For...
