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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 16 Jun 2010Tags:
financial planners,
planning for retirement,
money matters,
finances,
selecting a financial planner
Financial planners can offer valuable assistance to baby boomer consumers, especially in planning for retirement.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 26 May 2010
In a largely unregulated industry, a Wall Street Journal article advises baby boomer consumers to avoid prepaid funeral plans unless they or their parents want to pay down their assets to be eligible for Medicaid.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 15 May 2010
Jim McNerney Jr., Boeing's chief executive officer, is among corporate leaders who have traveled to Washington, D.C., recently to lobby against a provision of the Senate's financial regulation bill that would make it easier for shareholders to nominate candidates for corporate boards of directors.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 30 Apr 2010
Usually, consumers don't have problems with online financial transactions. However, occasionally something goes wrong. This article offers 10 tips on how to protect yourself when you're banking, paying bills, or shopping online.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 30 Apr 2010
In 2009, 41 percent of American adults gave their personal finance knowledge a grade of C, D, or F, a survey conducted for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling Inc. showed. The same survey reported that nearly one-third of adults had no savings. This article offers resources on how to improve your ability to handle financial matters.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 17 Apr 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the U.S. housing market was beginning to falter.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 15 Mar 2010Tags:
consumer protection,
consumers,
financial advisors,
washington state department of financial institutions,
retirement
Rhonda Breard, an Eastside broker and financial planner, is under investigation for fraud. The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions and Attorney General's Office are looking into allegations that Breard has taken money from clients. See this article for steps you can take to protect yourself in dealings with a financial advisor.
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Beyond50Radio
on 05 Mar 2010
Listen to an interview with Kristan Leatherman from the Love and Logic Institute. She offers her best solutions to teaching kids how to solve their own problems, while gaining the confidence and capability they need to meet life's financial challenges. And parents benefit because they establish healthy control now, without resorting to anger or threats, and without the guilt of having to rescue their kids later when they should be financially independent. This is Part 1 of 2 interviews.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 17 Feb 2010
President Obama is taking on the banking industry by proposing that government should have the power to limit the size and complexity of large financial institutions as well as their ability to make high-risk trades. Overhauling financial rules is an important step for American consumers.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 17 Feb 2010
What events impacted you the most last year as a baby boomer? This article has my thoughts. Let me know yours.
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aheadofthecurve
on 26 Jan 2010
During my ritual beginning-of-the-year cleansing of files, bookmarks and the like, I came across this short reflection about money called: Are You a Reverse Money Snob? from the Barefoot Executive's site for At Home Professionals. Its musings on our attitudes towards wealth seem germane as we continue evaluating the meaning and role of money in our lives.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 23 Jan 2010
What long-term financial goals should baby boomers have or strongly consider?
Doughroller.net offers these five suggestions. |
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 23 Jan 2010
What events this last year have most affected your life? Read this article for my ideas on the top stories of 2009 for baby boomers.
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aheadofthecurve
on 20 Jan 2010
If you're one of the less than 25% of women feeling "very well prepared" to handle financial matters, make 2010 the year to build your financial confidence. A Prudential study also found that while 78% of women don't want to become a financial burden to loved ones, only 24% feel they can pull it off.
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aheadofthecurve
on 17 Jan 2010
Speaking of feminine power and women's leadership in all the very diverse roles and forms it takes, this very interesting piece is part of the Roosevelt Institute's even more interesting 'Feminomics' series exploring women's changing roles in the economy.
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aheadofthecurve
on 11 Jan 2010
Vicki Robin, well-known coauthor, with Joe Dominguez, of Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, is hosting a series of 12 speakers and activists on money, life, the economy and the future. The teleseminar is inexpensive, you can listen to the series, or sign up individually, and the first class is free. You also have an opportunity to dig deep with your own questions.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 04 Jan 2010
What happened this year of importance to baby boomer consumers? This article describes the top 10 consumer stories of 2009.
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aheadofthecurve
on 31 Oct 2009
In part because we live longer, and also because of the ways in which women's retirement benefits are tied to how much we earn during our working lives, women face a greater longevity risk - danger of outliving our assets - in ways that men don't. How women can get more guaranteed income in retirement is an issue the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) monitors and has long advocated for.
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aheadofthecurve
on 31 Oct 2009
Great news if you're an entrepreneur or own a small business that you'd like to expand. We've posted before on Kiva.org, which gives loans as small as $25 to help small business owners in developing countries. Now it's hoping its microlending strategies can offer a way out of the recession here, and has started offering similar loans to struggling U.S. entrepreneurs.
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SurviveandThriveBoomerGuide
on 27 Oct 2009Tags:
consumer financial protection agency,
u.s. chamber of commerce,
credit cards,
banking industry,
economy
The banking industry is set on killing the proposed new consumer protection agency being proposed by the Obama administration to help consumers.
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