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Financial Planning After Major Changes in a Woman’s Life
Some of the most stressful life changes for women include the death of a spouse, divorce, and retirement. Every woman handles things differently, so there’s no “one way” to do financial planning at every stage in life. But here are a few...
Financial Planning in the Early Stages of a Woman’s Life
Financial planning is about more than just investing, but the same skills that make women better investors can also serve them well when it comes to financial planning. Because women face different challenges at various stages in life,...
Why Women are Better Investors
In a survey conducted by Fidelity, fewer than 9% of respondents said that they thought that women were better investors than men. If that’s the predominant view, it’s not surprising that women are underrepresented in the financial...
What Do Financial Wealth Managers Do?
A wealth manager is usually characterized by their clientele – high net worth individuals. That characteristic of wealth managers (who they work with) has far-reaching ramifications. Because they usually work exclusively with...
Wealth Manager vs. Financial Advisor: What’s the Difference?
If you crack open a thesaurus (or more likely, go online) and look up synonyms for the word “finances” you’ll find words like “money”, “investments”, and “accounts” – all words that sound like the word “wealth”. Similarly, when you look...
Wealth Management Tips
Every person faces unique situations when it comes to money, and high net worth individuals are no different. In fact, the more wealth you have, the more complex questions you may have. Whether you hire a wealth manager or decide to do it...
Healthcare in Retirement
There is probably no subject more important – and more complicated – to successful retirement planning than the issue of health care costs in retirement. There is nothing further from the truth in that thought that once we turn 65...
Preparing for Retirement: Housing
One of the biggest assets most of us will end up with as we near retirement will probably be our home. What you decide to do with it as you retire is probably one of the more important decisions you will make. Chances are reasonably high...
Preparing for Retirement: 5 Things to Consider
The name Ida Mae Fuller is not one often found in the history books. But if there is a history of retirement programs ever written, it should be. Ms. Fuller was the first recipient of Social Security, the retirement program set up by the...