With the economy in the doldrums and the long-term outlook for the US stock market looking more restrained than it has in the recent past, parents and grandparents are asking my advice about the problems associated with paying for their children’s college education. Fueled by a sense of desperation brought on by skyrocketing college costs, …
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Is College a Waste of Money?
I really don't know the answer to this question but it has been asked more frequently than I can remember during the last couple of years. I do know that it takes a lot of money to complete a four year degree, that the traditional sources of funding are increasingly a problem for many families, …
Parents’ College Savings Falling Far Short of Goals
When you finish the comments below, be sure to visit the tab above called CollegeMoneyNow. There you will find a short presentation on this topic that I created to help you solve this problem. According to a study released Tuesday by Fidelity Investments, parents are ill-prepared to meet tuition costs, with their savings likely to …
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Ch. 3 – CollegeMoneyNow – Help With College Funding
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 …
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Find Free Money to Pay for College – Ch. 2
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 …
Find Free Money to Pay for College – Ch. 1
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 …
Weekly Insights from Curian Capital
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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