Shrewd Money Advice for Women Over 50
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz dedicates her new soup-to-nuts personal finance book, The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty, to “Chuck, who I am proud to call Dad.” Chuck, of course, is…
Kerry’s Advice on Today.com Women Want Financial Advisers Who Get Their Needs
Women are heading more households and making small inroads in the C-suite. They have also increased their presence on the Forbes list of billionaires. And research by Boston College’s Center…
Kerry’s Expert Tips on NEA: Your Retirement Nest Egg, Is it Built to Last?
For some, like Roger Rea, a retired teacher living in Omaha, Neb., the transition into retirement is financially seamless. “My retirement income comes from our retirement system as well as…
Women and Long-Term Care Insurance
I’ve been thinking about long-term care insurance a lot lately, because my dad would have been 94 yesterday. He died six years ago after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Dad…
Family Foundations Let Affluent Leave a Legacy
STEPHANIE Cordes, a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has a present from her father, Ron, that she treasures. It’s a handmade pink scrapbook, titled, “5 Life Lessons…
It’s a Buyer’s Market for Private Islands
WHEN ultrarich Americans go house-hunting outside the United States, they’ve got a Caribbean soul they can barely control, to paraphrase Jimmy Buffett. Those were the findings of the Candy GPS…
Credit Card Challenges Boomer Women Are Facing
Credit cards have been top of mind for me, and, I suspect, many of you lately. Hardly a week goes by without news of another credit and debit card security…
When A Money Writer’s Health Policy Was Canceled
Right now, I’m gazing at the cover of the 142-page Individual Enrollment Agreement that arrived in the mail from my new health insurer, CareFirst BlueCrossBlueshield. The sleek, longhaired woman in…
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A holiday reading list for the retiree on your list
Now that the baby boomer age wave is crashing ashore, Americans are retiring by the boatload. About 10,000 of us will turn 65 every day for the next 17 years,…
One Woman’s Zeal to Get Female Staffers to Save
Women of all ages do the “scuffle,” as I like to call it, when it comes to saving for retirement. It always surprises me that so many women I speak…
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