Let’s take a moment of silence to remember the pension. We dearly miss that well-loved, but ultimately unstainable stream of lifetime income that employers used to supply loyal workers in retirement. Now what? Employers have punted the responsibility of lifetime income and medical care to their employees. They feel really good about providing a 401(k)…
Many people envision retiring to a beachy paradise. And, it’s true, warm states like Florida, Arizona, and North Carolina are seeing an influx of new faces, many of them retired. However, according to US census bureau data, only about 4% of Americans aged 65 and older move each year. What are some things to consider…
“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.” – Al Franken And there you have it, folks! Trying to change your portfolio based on who is saying what in financial news is about as useless as…
In a recent post on Financial Advisor IQ, Sullivan Financial Planning’s Kristi Sullivan was quoted in the article, Peer-to-Peer Lending: A Fad or the Future? By Chris Latham. A copy of the article is below. Peer-to-Peer Lending: A Fad or the Future? By Chris Latham March 18, 2015 Peer-to-peer lending may serve advisors’ clients on two fronts, experts say.…
This article is meant for advisers, but it has some good info for anyone thinking of peer-to-peer lending. My quote is toward the end. http://financialadvisoriq.com/c/1084473/113693?referrer_module=SearchSubFromFAIQ&highlight=peer-to-peer%20lending Contact me at 303-324-0014 or kristi@sullivanfinancialplanning.com to talk about peer-to-peer lending. Stay Informed and Educated — Subscribe to the SFP Blog! Use the quick and easy form to the right of this article.
If you look back on my past blogs, I explain the different types of bonds with a fun example. To summarize, bonds come in different maturity dates and different credit qualities. The longer the maturity date, the better the interest you are paid, but the more risk to the bond price if interest rates go…
I’m going to spend the next couple of blogs talking about the horrifying (sarcasm) specter of rising interest rates. This is in hopes that I won’t have to talk about it for the rest of the year. Yeah, right. If you spend any time watching/reading financial news prognosticators, (which you shouldn’t because it’s bad for…
There must be some physical component in the human brain that relentlessly drives us to compare our lives to that of our friends, enemies, co-workers, or ex-boyfriends. We do it with the cars we drive, the age we marry, our children’s’ SAT scores, and the granite on our countertops. As a financial planner, I often…
One of the perils of working in financial planning is that you speak in this weird language that you think others understand, but they don’t. This is where I rely on my friends to let me know when I am writing in financial-babble. So, this blog goes out to my good, honest friend Dana Lynch. …
First, let me be clear: I am NOT a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. There are such people out there and I highly recommend you visit one before starting divorce proceedings. This is just a quick list of things I wish people would do BEFORE they slam out of the house and start sleeping with their…
