The number of labor force participants over age 65 has increased about 22 percent in the past three years. My Comment: I have to confess to a “Duh” moment when I saw this headline. My plans for retirement went out the window starting sometime in 2008. Not that I had any real plans to start …
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My Comment: Here is award letter #6. Hofstra University is well known to most of you. Not a name that comes up very often here in the south but one with an impeccable reputation. This is for someone enrolling as a freshman this fall. That's a lot of money that doesn't have to be paid …
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My Comment: It’s sometimes helpful to look back a few months, sometimes a few years, to see what I was thinking at the time and to compare what was then with what we see now. For example, as investment advisors we have long embraced the idea of a diversified portfolio to minimize risk. Think Enron; …
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My Comment: This article appeared last November and came from a company well known to us in the insurance industy, A.M.Best Company. This is the company that rates insurance companies to help the consumer make intelligent choices. The topic will be of no interest to many of you. However, it deals with Medical Professional Liability …
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How the conservative belief in American exceptionalism has become a matter of faith. My Comment: Christopher Hitchens wrote and posted this article last November. Like me, he was an Englishman who made his home in the United States. Unlike me, he was an accomplshed thinker and writer. Unfortunately, he died late last year after a …
My Comment: Here is award letter #5. I'm planning to show one of these a week for several more weeks. My idea is to build a library of examples of the kind of money there is out there for high school students and even college students who want to go to graduate school. The process …
Continue reading CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – April 3, 2012
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Rigged Money author and investment advisor Lee Munson, a former trader, talks about how Wall Street does its best to turn advisors' and investors' attention away from the most important topic: risk. My Comment: I’m trying something new in this blog post. I ran across this seven minute video that talks about investment risk and …
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Stocks end this final week of what’s shaping up to be the best first quarter in 14 years, with little hope the second quarter can match its gains. My Comment: Who among you saw this coming? And if you did, what is your prediction for the next quarter? No one knows. All we do know …
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