I take several overseas trips each year and have never bothered to really figure out how to pay for things in countries where US Dollar is not accepted everywhere.? You will invariably incur additional costs in exchanging US Dollar into local currency.? during a recent vacation, I decided to read the fine print ahead of [...]
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AXA Advisors Awards top National Honor to Florida Businesswoman
Peggy Hollander Receives Highest Honor for AXA Advisors’ Financial Professionals
becomes first Woman to Receive this Honor
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 Peggy Hollander, founder and ManagingDirector of The Succession Group, Inc., Miami, Fla., and a financialprofessional for AXA Advisors, LLC, has earned AXA Advisors’ 2005 NationalHonor Associate Award, it was announced today by Christopher M. “Kip” Condron,President and CEO of AXA Financial, Inc., one of the premier U.S.organizations in financial protection and wealth management. The award, established nearly seven decades …

When you reach 70 1/2, IRS rules say you have to start required minimum distributions from your traditional IRAs or your 401(k)s. The tax bite for not obeying the rules can be major.
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Retirement Savings: We continue to read the grim statistics about the American savings rate. So you may be very surprised to hear that at least one financial planner says we’ll need less money than we thought during retirement.
Living to 100: For a split second you probably thought you have enough retirement savings. well, and this is good news, you may come up short. Scott Burns of MSN Money explains how a longer life span requires thoughtful planning.
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From DSNews we get this encouraging tidbit:
DSNews: Job Loss would make 1 in 3 Homeless
And by “encouraging,” I mean that the last thirty years of insane financialization and ridiculous consumption is making itself evident everywhere you turn. while the use of “homeless” in the article is a touch misleading, it still paints a pretty yucky picture:
One in three Americans would be unable to make their mortgage or rent payment beyond one month if they lost their job, according to the results of a national survey taken in mid-September.
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Stress and Anxiety of Complex Retirement planning Choices Alleviated by New Website from NewRetirement Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document. NewRetirement today announced the launch of its new consumer education and advocacy site for baby-boomers and retirees. The retirement planning website offers an interactive retirement calculator with personalized output, comprehensive information, and unbiased personal finance product and service evaluationsSan Francisco, California (PRWEB) December 1, 2005. NewRetirement LLC today announced its new website, www.NewRetirement.com, is open for business. The company?s founders created the web …