Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Holidays are a notorious time for financial fraud. Scammers capitalize on the generosity of their targets, particularly seniors. What can families do to give their older loved ones, especially aging parents a greater measure of financial safety? The World Health Organization estimates that one in six
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Getty We often think of successful entrepreneurs as fanatical types — often young — dreaming up brilliant ideas and then taking them to market. But would you believe that over 70% of the most transformative innovations in the past 30 years came from corporate employees known as intrapreneurs? That’s what business strategist Kaihan Krippendorff discovered
Getty Congress just agreed to a bipartisan appropriations bill that will help avert another government shutdown. However, attached to the spending bill is a piece of legislation called the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (SECURE Act), which passed the House with a 417-3 vote earlier this summer. Honestly, the passage of the SECURE Act came as
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin It looks like SECURE is in the spending bill. Getty On December 12, 2019, senior lawmakers announced they had reached a tentative agreement on the $1.4 trillion government spending bill. In a handshake deal, Rep Nita Lowry of New York announced that they had a “meeting
Getty I read an article recently that dealt with the question of why nursing homes cost so much and the difference between for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes. This legitimate question had been the basis of solid research by the Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center at the University of Michigan and financed through a grant from the U.S.
Happy Holidays! Steve Chen Happy holidays – give yourself the gift of tax savings As we head into the holiday season and New Years it can pay big dividends to spend a little time seeing if any year end moves can help you save a lot on taxes or improve your financial situation. This month
This survey of high-payout funds will steer you to the bargains and warn you of the pitfalls. How to pay for it? Getty Stocks and bonds yield 2% these days. That’s problematic if you had in mind withdrawing 4% a year from your savings. Wall Street’s answer to this predicament: a rich menu of exchange-traded
Getty A lot of people these days believe they’ll receive little or nothing from Social Security. They’ll hear otherwise from Social Security, which will provide statements of estimated benefits to those who request. Most workers who are age 60 or over are mailed the statements each year, whether they ask for them or not. Beginning
null Getty The way to protect your portfolio isn’t large caps–it’s large yields. And the very best ones often come in small packages, such as the three “underappreciated dividends” yielding up to 15% that I’m about to show you. I’m talking about funds that pay big, secure dividends. When pullbacks happen, these funds’ prices don’t
Stressed Asian Senior Couple calculate their monthly expense with laptop computer. Debts, Saving, … [+] Financials with Retirement. Getty Worried about a 2018 (or worse, a 2009) repeat? Good news: I’ve got a closed-end fund (CEF) that should be on your list no matter what happens: it carries a special “insurance” policy if markets head