May 31, 2017 | Do You Know, Retirement Plans, Small Business Needs, Tax deductible, Tax Planning and Deductions
Regular Method The first option for calculating the Home Office Deduction is the Regular Method. This method requires computing the business use of the home by dividing the expenses of operating the home between personal and business use. Direct business expenses are...
May 30, 2017 | Do You Know, Protect Your Family, Retirement Plans
“Clues to a Ruse. Don’t even consider outfits that bid jobs sight unseen, that answer the phone with generic greetings such as ‘movers’ rather than a specific company name (unscrupulous movers use multiple names to elude angry customers), or whose websites list no...
May 28, 2017 | Asset Allocation, Do You Know, Pension Parameters, Retirement Plans
“The combination of working longer and waiting to start Social Security benefits is a reasonable way for older workers to address the modern realities of longer lifespans and meager retirement savings,” writes Steve Vernon in a cbsnews.com MoneyWatch article....
May 26, 2017 | Boomer Retirement, Do You Know, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality
In another superb cbsnews.com MoneyWatch column, Steve Vernon asks: “Are you among the nearly half of Americans who can’t pass a financial literacy quiz?” “Being able to ace such a test is important for all age groups, but perhaps even more so if...
May 14, 2017 | Asset Allocation, Do You Know, Retirement Plans
Tom Selleck, among other celebrities, has done impressively slick infomercials extolling the benefits of reverse mortgages (truth to tell, by our light, his is the very best and persuasive of the lot—I mean, are there many others more trustworthy than the Blue Bloods...
May 7, 2017 | Do You Know
“Researchers have confirmed that life expectancy at older ages has been rising fastest for the highest socioeconomic groups,” writes Rebecca Moore in an excellent piece for plansponsor.com, citing a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Moore...