Finance

By Alain Valles CRMP, MBA, CSA The prospect of living out one's life in the "golden years" has lost its glow. Wild stock market swings and a...

By David Wilkening Contributing Writer REGION - If you want the protection of buying long-term care insurance, it helps if you have a lot of money....

It’s been a harrowing ride in the stock market lately. So much so that it’s prompted scores of investors to pull money out of the market and park it in bonds or other fixed-income assets.

By Alain Valles, MBA, CRMP, CSA Hopefully your life has been rewarding and pleasurable. But we all have experienced, or will someday face, life's unexpected...

When stock markets tumbled around the world recently, bond funds remained solid once again.

If you’re approaching retirement or hopefully enjoying retirement, there may be a nagging concern of have you done everything possible to minimize your financial risks?  Whether you have professional advisors, do your own planning - or perhaps worse, ignore the entire topic - below are economic areas that can affect your quality of life once you stop working:

By Joseph McManus, RICP®, Financial Planner, Prudential Advisors Today, most of us expect to live longer, healthier and more active lives. How are you going...

Adding up to a modest-sounding 1 percent a year — would erase $70,000 from an average worker’s account over a four-decade career compared with lower-cost options.

Dennis Sullivan & Associates, Counselors at Law What is your present situation? Has COVID-19 affected your family, friends and neighbors? Might there be landmines on...

By Alain Valles, MBA, CRMP, CSA Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECM), more commonly known as reverse mortgages, were authorized by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 and...