The end of the year is around the corner and every news organization is spreading the alarm as the ominous sounding fiscal cliff nears. Unfortunately, the explanations about the fiscal cliff provided by most news organizations are unsatisfactory and instead …
Thanksgiving is in two days and bargain shoppers are going crazy because Black Friday is almost upon us.
I’ve always prided myself on being a savvy shopper, but waiting in lines for hours to save a few hundred dollars has …
It looks like the fiscal cliff is not a modern worry. This political cartoon shows the nation plummeting over a fiscal cliff over of another age. In 1879, debate raged between the two parties about …
Today’s independent review of the Allianz MasterDex X Fixed Index Annuity with Simple Income III Rider should help investors decide whether this extremely popular fixed index annuity is right for them. Toward the bottom of this post you’ll find a …
Another study on the alpha of active mutual funds has been conducted by Shaun Pfeiffer of Edinboro University and Harold Evensky of Texas Tech University reinforces the underperformance of active mutual funds. Their …
IF you have eye trouble like me, reading websites without glasses can be a pain. A while back I stumbled on this excellent little tool called Readability.
Readability is a service that allows you to save articles for reading later, …
Retirement is a time when many people move to their ideal location. Some retirees might wish to move closer to their adult children, to live in a warmer climate, or to live in a state with lower taxes. No matter …
You’ve paid for Social Security all of your working life and now it’s time to collect. Fewer baby boomers are retiring with pensions than their parents’ generation.
Without an inflation-protected stream of income from a pension, boomers will have to …
This article is the first in a series of articles detailing what I like to call the Principles of Financial Freedom During Retirement.
A long retirement is a blessing and thanks to medical advances, we …
Almost every senior makes the same mistake when the time comes to apply for Social Security. They don’t really consider having a plan for Social Security other than just applying for it when they retire. Or even worse, they apply …