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Be a Good Boy Scout with Your Finances

A single bad market event can have catastrophic effects on your retirement funds so it is important to have safeguards in place to help reduce the possibility of waking up one morning and finding your nest eggs broken. The brokerage community insists that if you are just patient enough your portfolio will rebound but, what if it doesn’t? In today’s article Dennis Miller takes a look at some steps you can take to help protect your Life’s savings.

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Will You Blow $180,000 of Your Social Security?

Optimizing your Social Security payments hinges on more than the age you at which you start receiving benefits. Guru’s and financial planners often make it sound easy to decide when is the optimal point to begin collecting your Social Security. But the question is really trickier than it might seem. Every situation is different and with many couples having two working spouses eligible to collect Social Security deciding on the perfect age to begin collecting is even trickier. But there are a variety of options… some of which are rarely discussed… including having the spouse with the shortest life expectancy begin collecting early while the other waits until later. In today’s post Dennis Miller looks at a few other options you should consider.

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IRS Civil Asset Forfeitures Targets Noncriminals

n addition to the IRS targeting members of conservative organizations it appears that the IRS and other government agencies are targeting ordinary citizens for “Asset Forfeiture” which is another word for outright theft as there is no “due process” involved and the defendant is presumed guilty until proven innocent. In today’s post Matt Chilliak of Live and Invest Overseas describes this latest threat to our “Pursuit of Happiness”.

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9 Ways to Retire Rich

For real people, building a rich retirement requires creative solutions beyond “start saving early.” In today’s post Dennis Miller looks at conventional wisdom and compares theory with practice. He shows that the average investor doesn’t even keep up with inflation (i.e. he actually loses purchasing power with every year that goes by.)

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Retirement Planning for the Bommerang Generation- Infographic

Recently, our friends at Milliman Employee Benefits created an infographic on retirement planning for the millennial generation. Millennial’s parents were from the “boomer” generation and because so many of the millennial generation  are returning to live with their parents they have gotten the nickname the “boomerang” generation. Of course, if you are living in your

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Deciding Who to Trust With Your Money

Almost everything we do in life requires that we exhibit some form of trust. When we go to the grocery store we are trusting that the food is wholesome and the package contains what is says it does. When we go to the gas station we are trusting that the pump is dispensing gasoline and not water. When we choose an investment adviser, a doctor or a lawyer we have to exhibit even more trust because we often don’t even know what we don’t know. So choosing an untrustworthy individual could prove disastrous to our health or wealth.

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