Given all the media coverage of skyrocketing college costs, you would think that parents would have a good grasp of the cost of an undergraduate education for their children and how they are going to pay for it. I don’t think they do. For many families, financing the cost of college remains a mystery. The …
Continue reading Ch. 3 – CollegeMoneyNow – Help With College Funding
In an unusual mid-month commentary, PIMCO chairman Bill Gross says fiscal balance alone will not likely produce 20 million jobs over the next decade. He said the government must re-think how it approaches job creation, and said that a college education was a waste of money. “It is becoming obvious that the 2012 election will …
By now I hope you have found the video presentation under the CollegeMoneyNow.info tab above. If you haven’t, take a few minutes and explore this idea. I’m going to write today about the college process itself. Unknown to parents and students, colleges accept far more students than they can admit. For example, if a college …
In my last post on this subject, I referenced a small selection of investments that employ "alternative investments" in their portfolio mix. Today, I'm going to describe a stand alone option. Technically, its a hedge fund, and as such, you are required to meet a personal financial threshold before you can buy into it. But …
Continue reading The Case for Alternative Investments – Part V
College planning and retirement planning go hand in hand. As someone who has helped clients with their retirement plans for over 30 years, I like to think I know what I’m doing. A subset of retirement planning is college planning or college funding. I’ve discovered that you can’t offer one without impacting the other. Typically …
It's hard to find a short, comprehensive description of what's happening in the global economy. And most of us don't have either the time or the specific need to read the Wall Street Journal and come to our own conclusions. We just want a short summary to help us make intelligent decisions. This Weekly Insight …
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