Financial Planners Unite! The World Needs Us! I recently read a study done by the Harvard Business review where they tracked the spending habits of 235 U.S households for a year. Their findings were not surprising. These 235 households had […]
What Is Risky to You? In financial planning, not saving enough money to accomplish your goals is the biggest risk you can take. Thinking that things will just work out and money will fall like manna from heaven is not […]
The answer is…it depends. We all want to believe that retirement planning is a clean analysis that can be run to peg the exact amount of money we need to eventually stop working. Maybe we need: 75% of income (adjusted […]
The financial planning process is a logical, six-step procedure: (1) determine your current financial situation. (2) develop financial goals. (3) identify alternative courses of action. (4) evaluate alternatives. (5) create and implement a financial action plan (6) reevaluate and revise […]
Retirement Study A 2015 study found that 41% of households headed by someone aged 55 to 64 had no retirement savings, and only about a third of them had a traditional pension. Among households in this age group with savings, […]
