This week, our focus on the Blog involves financial planning and the essential role your financial advisor plays in preparing you for retirement. But your financial advisor shouldn’t operate in a vacuum, isolated from other members of your “retirement team.” For this article, we’re considering the question: what good things can happen when a retiree’s … Read more
This week on the Blog, we’re focusing our attention on the financial side of retirement planning. We’re featuring an article on how to select a planner, while another article talks about the critical relationship between your financial planner and your estate planning attorney. But this article from Kiplinger helps answer the question many of us … Read more
Type the words “financial planner” or “financial advisor” into your search engine and you’ll get well over two and a half million hits. Face it – many people (perhaps even most people) would benefit from the services of a qualified financial planner, but when it comes to selecting the right one, we’re stumped. Make no … Read more
When a loved one dies, the sense of loss can be overwhelming. Yet even in the midst of grief, there’s usually a barrage of urgent things the family has to attend to: making funeral arrangements, handling the estate, perhaps caring for a house or even re-homing a beloved pet. The “to do” list can grow … Read more
Frequently here on the Blog and on our radio program, we turn our attention to Medicaid. That’s the means-tested program funded by a combination of federal and state dollars that covers a wide range of services, including long-term care for those who qualify. While Medicare tends to get more press, Medicaid fills a critical need … Read more
The ads seem to be everywhere – from investment firms, financial planners, retirement advisors, you name it. They typically carry a headline that proclaims, “Yes, You Can Retire Comfortably with $1 Million.” And for a fee, they’ll gladly show us how. But why $1 million? Besides being a nice, round number, where did that benchmark … Read more
“Do I have enough money to retire?” There was a time when that relatively simple question lay at the center of retirement planning. Today, however, the landscape has changed dramatically. These days, most retirees are living longer than ever, and retirement planners and financial advisors are adjusting their advice accordingly. That was our take-away from … Read more
If you are on the threshold of retirement, one of the great challenges is determining how much money you are actually going to need to cover future expenses. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a retirement crystal ball that would allow you to peer into the future in order to figure out how financially secure … Read more
There are two realities facing most seniors. One is that the odds are good we’ll need long-term care someday. The other is that it’s going to be expensive. We’ve written articles here on the Blog before about how to pay for long-term care, but it’s clearly a topic worth revisiting because few of us will … Read more
Our focus this week on the Blog is aging alone. For millions of American seniors, solo aging is their daily experience, some by choice and some out of necessity. Elsewhere on the Blog, we’ve included articles that describe solo aging in general terms. But what is the experience like for a typical single senior? Recently, … Read more
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