Investors have enjoyed a powerful bull market over the past 8½ years. But they also carry the emotional scars of the steep declines of 2000 and 2008. With stock valuations currently stretched to
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AARP, the nation’s largest organization for older Americans, traces its heritage to the late 1940s when a high-school principal set out to make sure retired teachers had adequate health insurance. About a decade later, the
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We spend a lot of time in this space talking about risk—identifying various threats to our finances and suggesting ways to minimize them. There’s market risk, inflation risk, longevity risk, sequence of returns risk, and
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Today’s American workers are being forced to shoulder a much higher level of responsibility regarding their retirement finances than past generations. With Social Security projections showing significant shortfalls
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April 26, 2017
Faith Tibbetts McDonald
It’s been more than 20 years since this article was first published in Sound Mind Investing, yet it’s as timely and relevant as ever. We trust it will be a great encouragement to anyone considering going from two incomes
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April 26, 2017
R. Hal Moorman
John, age 60, lost his wife to cancer four years ago. He remarried last year. He now finds that he also has cancer. When he visits his attorney to update his will, he learns that, unless his new wife agrees to a change,
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As with so many topics, Christian parents are in a tug of war with our culture when it comes to teaching our kids about money. And guess who's winning? Research about the financial attitudes of children ages 9-14 conducted
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March 28, 2017
Russ Crosson
I’m always amazed at grandparents who are unwilling to leave large sums of money to their own children because they weren’t trained to manage it well, but they will leave significant sums to grandchildren who can’t even
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There are countless important decisions to make as you get older. Many of them have a financial focus—how much to withdraw from the nest egg you’ve built, when to take Social Security, how to pay for healthcare and the
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Over 525 Premium Members have already signed up for personal access to the award-winning myMoneyGuide® financial planning software, offered by SMI Advisory Services.
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