Contributed by Benjamin Bimson, CIMA® Investment Advisor BCJ Financial This week we attended the Schwab Impact 2015 conference in Boston, MA. The Impact conference is a huge one ...
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Retirement is a huge adjustment for most people, mentally and socially. Your day-to-day routine changes without a job to report to, and you and your spouse have to ...
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Although it doesn’t necessarily work out that way, the tax system in the U.S. is intended to be progressive. This means that more you earn, the more tax ...
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Longevity Risk and Reward Science has been making great strides lately lengthening our life spans to the point special considerations need to be made regarding the quality of ...
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Social Security has never been more important—or more difficult to get right. Social Security benefits are more complicated than most pre-retirees understand, and the confusion results in millions ...
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Most people will receive Social Security payments in retirement. A fortunate few will also receive public or private traditional pension payments. But you can’t necessarily count on these ...
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The informal motto of the on-demand economy has a nice ring to it: “Be your own boss.” But if you want to scrape together a living by driving ...
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The US economy is all about consumers. On Tuesday, consumer confidence beat expectations while advance data on US trade in August showed a 3.2% decline in the nominal ...
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The world’s biggest economies are no longer moving in lockstep—and that makes the world more risky. Just how aligned is the global economy? To what extent is it ...
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The three keys to “going big.” When a business adviser suggested that Julia Pimsleur raise venture capital for her early-childhood language learning company, Little Pim, she spent nine ...
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