How Will COVID-19 impact retirement planning? New research finds older Americans might have to delay retirement due to the coronavirus pandemic. The financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is already devastating to millions of consumers. More than 40 percent of Americans say their level of financial security has deteriorated since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Around [...]
There are many tools you can use to make an investment in yourself and your future, including buying stocks and opening your own business. But not every decision you make will be good for you, and it’s important to learn from your—and others’—mistakes. Once you make a bad investment, hopefully you won’t make the same [...]
If retirement is on your radar for 2014, it’s important to start preparing to leave the workforce. Retirement is sweet, but it can quickly turn sour if you find yourself bored or, worse yet, on the verge of outliving your retirement savings. To help you ease into retirement, here are three retirement tips you might [...]
I started my tax career in a national CPA firm a long time ago. What shocked me about filing taxes with this particular firm was that it was charging $250 to prepare a simple tax return. What’s the big deal? Back then, $250 got you a nice two-bedroom apartment. Today, that same apartment would run [...]
