Retirement Pitfalls
MarketWatch - August 4, 2008
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug 04, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- State Employees' Credit Union (SECU) is pleased to announce a consumer-friendly reverse mortgage designed to help senior members utilize the wealth in their homes in
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Kipinger - August 4, 2008
When trying to figure out who benefits from the new housing law, don't forget to count seniors who are in the market for a reverse mortgage. These mortgages let seniors convert some of their home equity into a stream of income,
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San Francisco Gate - August 1, 2008
Not so long ago I was at my father's house, and I heard him on the phone, arranging a visit with someone. When he hung up, I inquired about who he was making plans with.
"A very nice guy who called me," he told me.
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The Wall Street Journal - August 2, 2008
I recently filed for full-retirement-age benefits from Social Security. My current wife and I discovered that my former wife also had filed based on my benefits. We were told by Social Security that she had done
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The Wall Street Journal - July 31, 2008
As lending standards have become tougher, a rising number of people and businesses are turning to an unlikely source for money: private lenders.
In recent years, the practice of borrowing money from private parties
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US News & World Report - June 12, 2008
Widowhood poses special challenges in retirement.
When Elaine Williams became a widow four years ago at age 47, she took on extra data-entry work to help make up for the loss of her husband's income. She also
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CBS NEWS - July 28, 2008
Our disfunctional financial system hit a new low last week when Citigroup, the hopeless wreck of Wall Street, announced it had lost $2.5 billion in the past three months -- a cheer went up, and so did the Dow. Only $2.5 billion;
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The New York Times - July 25, 2008
If you are ignoring the housing bailout bill because you think it benefits only troubled homeowners, you may miss out on a windfall.
The bill, expected to be passed by the Senate in the next few days and then signed
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The Wall Street Journal - July 27, 2008
The complexity of preparing financially for retirement can make anyone nervous -- but a new survey finds women are more worried than men about the challenges ahead, particularly inflation, health-care costs and
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US News & World Report - July 21, 2008
It's difficult to plan for retirement when you can't predict the precise amount of your Social Security checks. A new tool is available to more accurately estimate what your Social Security benefits will be.
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Financial-Planning.com - July 23, 2008
A week after opening IndyMac Federal Bank to worried customers and a media frenzy, John Bovenzi sat in his sixth-floor chief executive's office laying out what the battered mortgage lender can still offer potential
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NewRetirement Editorial Note: NewRetirement shares some of the concerns voiced by the authors of this article. In particular, we are carefully watching the impact of a rapidly increasing number of brokers entering the reverse mortgage market.
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Seeking Alpha - July 20, 2008
I tend to be in hotel rooms when bubbles burst.
On January 6, 2000, I was on the 30th-something floor of the Marriott hotel across the street from the convention center in San Francisco. I was jet lagged and up working
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Washington Post - July 20, 2008
Would you still put money in a tax-advantaged retirement fund if you couldn't touch it until you retired?
And when I say you couldn't touch it, I mean you couldn't take out loans or withdraw funds under any circumstances.
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US News & World Report - July 16, 2008
Almost everyone aims to attain financial security in retirement. But each succeeding generation expects to be more self-reliant than the preceding one, according to a new online survey by Charles Schwab, Age
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