Oct 24, 2016 | Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans
“For the first time since 2013, American parents list saving for college among their top two savings priorities, surpassing both retirement and general savings, and second only to emergency funds,” writes Tanza Loudenback in a highly interesting businessinsider.com...
Oct 20, 2016 | 401k, Boomer Retirement, Money and Aging, Planning for Longevity, Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality
“Working longer is becoming the go-to retirement plan for millions of older Americans who report they expect to keep working well into their retirement years,” writes Steve Vernon in another of his superlative MoneyWatch pieces for cbsnews.com. “Many say they need the...
Oct 18, 2016 | Boomer Retirement, Retirement Reality
“In general, Americans are not prepared for retirement — particularly single people,” writes Kathleen Elkins in a cnbc.com piece, citing a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) that “even among those singles approaching retirement (age 56–61), most single...
Oct 13, 2016 | Boomer Retirement, Do You Know, Money and Aging, Retirement Plans
“Borrowers with a high loan-to-value ratio mortgage received some welcome news . . . when the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced that it plans to extend the Home Affordable Refinance Program into 2017 and unveiled a new refinance program that will take HARP’s...
Oct 9, 2016 | Retirement Plans
Admit it: your head can spin from the seemingly never-ending TV spots of celebrities pitching reverse mortgages (we’re looking at you, Henry Winkler, and we’ve noticed that even an A-lister like Tom Selleck has recently gotten in on the action). So how exactly do...