Finance

 By Alain Valles Does it makes sense for you to get the newly improved, federally insured reverse mortgage? A decision like this can seem overwhelming....

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

By Alain Valles, CRMP, CSA, MS, MBA, Nonprofit Managing Director 781-724-6221/av@hhcp.org As Managing Director of the self-funded nonprofit charitable mortgage company, Helping Hands Community Partners, our...

We haven’t saved enough, too many of us retire without financial security, and we may need to work longer to achieve it — assuming we can hang onto our jobs or find new ones. No wonder that workers and retirees are more pessimistic about their future prospects than they’ve been in years.

By Alain Vallès, CSA, MS, MBA, Managing Director, Helping Hands Community Partners, Inc. As Managing Director of the self-funded nonprofit charitable mortgage company, Helping Hands...

By Alain Valles You’ve worked hard, sacrificed for the kids, tried to save for retirement and chipped away at your mortgage. But now you need...

By Alain Valles, CRMP, MBA, CSA A Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) – often called a reverse mortgage - is a federally insured loan program that...

Even if the candles don’t all fit on the cake, there’s extra reason to celebrate some key older birthdays in the post-meltdown economy.

Stuffing envelopes is out and meaningful work experience is in for a new generation of volunteers.

By Barbara Hazelden, Contributing Writer REGION - While inching along in I-93 traffic every day or plodding along slushy Boston streets in horrible winter weather,...