The excuse that you will simply work longer has taken a dangerous position in the retirement plan for women, as a TransAmerica Retirement survey recently revealed. Granted, this is the new recovery... Read more >>

Wouldn’t it be great to find an extra $10,662 to invest towards your retirement, pay down debt, and improve your lifestyle? This is the gap in income currently experienced by women across... Read more >>

We celebrate mothers everywhere with a special day set aside just for them. We do all of the required stuff any dutiful child would do: we call, send flowers, make her breakfast, take her out to... Read more >>

I bump into surveys and white papers and research about how this group or that plans or saves or simply doesn’t have a clue how to plan or save. This must leave the surveyors somewhat aghast.... Read more >>

We all know what an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) is, but did you know with a self-directed IRA you can buy anything from Single family and multi-unit homes, apartment buildings,... Read more >>

A lot of us have become very aware about what we eat, what we buy and what kind of a footprint we leave. Then, when we invest our money, we often don’t consider that the companies we are buying... Read more >>

Spring is the time of year when we all want to clean out the winter dreariness and usher in the new season. This is also a good time of year to take a look at your financial house and see whether it... Read more >>

I’m going to tell you a personal story about my experience with disability. Back in the early ’90s I was eligible for a paltry $600 benefit from my employer as a disability payment. This... Read more >>

Retirement readiness was the last thing on my mind until two years ago, when I was stopped dead in my tracks with a retirement awakening. Hard to believe that at forty-six years old, for the first... Read more >>

Do you ever feel triggered? Do you ever find yourself spending money you didn’t intend, but you do it anyways? Sometimes I feel almost defiant when I’m in this mode. “I know I... Read more >>