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BEATING THE “STICKER PRICE” ON COLLEGE COSTS

We all know that college costs have been soaring for years, but today’s numbers are still the stuff of sticker shock: Presently, a single year of college usually costs between $18,000 and $37,000. Many baby boomers remember when that amount would pay for an...

MARKET TURMOIL AND YOUR INVESTMENTS

It’s been a dramatic few weeks in the stock market- for many investors a little too dramatic. Let’s take a step back and review what occurred and how you should respond to it. The stock market, which is in the midst of a six-year bull market, stumbled,...

THE MOST IMPORTANT RETURN

Many investors are fixated on the return of “the market”—usually meaning a benchmark like the Dow Jones Industrial Index or the S&P 500 Index. And why shouldn’t they be? The financial media treat the changes in these indexes as though...

COULD YOU BE ON THE HOOK FOR YOUR PARENTS’ CARE?

Over the past several years, the cost of long-term care for the elderly has soared, in tandem with healthcare costs in general. And some experts are now concerned that the adult children of long-term care patients could be made legally liable for their unpaid bills....

THE GREEK CRISIS AND YOUR RETIREMENT PORTFOLIO

Markets breathed a sigh of relief this week as Greece and its creditors agreed on a bailout plan to bring the troubled nation back from the brink. Still, the year has been a volatile one for stocks, due to hotspots like Greece and China, where cooling economic growth...