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5 Ways to Maximize your Employee Benefits
5 Ways to Maximize your Employee Benefits Looking through an employee benefits packet can be overwhelming, especially if you just started a new position. But the decisions you make about your benefits now could potentially have a large impact on your future finances. Here’s five important areas to pay attention to during your enrollment period: 1….
Cash Isn’t King: Avoiding Hindsight Bias In Turbulent Markets
Cash Isn’t King: Avoiding Hindsight Bias In Turbulent Markets As we fully enter the fall season, the markets continue to seesaw dramatically. Some are lamenting why they weren’t in cash from January. We all see the beginning-of-year values on our statements and can experience something called ‘hindsight bias’ – a not-infrequent tendency for investors to consider…
How Professional Organizers Can Help with the Divorce Process
How Professional Organizers Can Help with the Divorce Process Divorce is not just a painful process for all involved, it can also be complicated and difficult to navigate. Even after settling big issues like custody of children and division of financial assets, there are still all the details involved with turning one household into two….
Managing Divorce With Children
Managing Divorce With Children Divorce is never easy. It can be a painful situation for everyone involved, especially children. Divorce attorney Paul Seabrook likens the process to a house fire. It can catch children by surprise, creating a sudden need for an emergency response team to do damage control and help everyone come to terms…
Chasing Returns to Get to Safety
A favorite (and costly) pastime of investors is to invest in assets that have recently done well. This happens in good times as investors seek better returns, and they happen in bad times as low-yielding investments such as cash are more attractive than money-losing stocks. In other words, investors chase returns. I have listened to…
REAL FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR HENRYs
4 Ways High Earners Can Strategize for the Future
Are you a HENRY? If the term is new to you, HENRY is an acronym for High Earner, Not Rich Yet. It describes younger, high-income professionals who have the potential to accumulate wealth in the future. This post is for the HENRYs. You may know the basics when it comes to how to budget and…
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Top Tips From Dr. Jim McCabe
There’s a lot to consider when it comes to retirement living options. Dr. Jim McCabe, president of Eldercare Resources, helps hundreds of families with elder care, retirement, and long-term care planning. Below, he shares his top tips to help you make the decision that’s best for you. The Newest and Most Popular Options There are…
7 Surprising College Planning Tips!
Some of us may recollect when going to college was a realistic and reasonably affordable way to a secure career path. Today, that notion is long gone. Now, parents desperately scramble to scrounge up funds so their teenage children can attend their dream schools. ‘Get in first and deal with the costs later’ is a…
7 SURPRISING COLLEGE PLANNING TIPS!
What We Learned From Dr. Nancy Paul
Some of us may recollect when going to college was a realistic and reasonably affordable way to a secure career path. Today, that notion is long gone. Now, parents desperately scramble to scrounge up funds so their teenage children can attend their dream schools. ‘Get in first and deal with the costs later’ is a…