Retirement

Avoiding Bad Financial Products

Finance Gourmet on February 26th, 2008

As a professional financial planner, I often come across finanical products that are such bad ideas that I don’t even know how (or why?) someone got them to market. Usually the answer is flat out greed. A company willing to make a buck at the expense of its customers is always out there. A posting [...]

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Finance Gourmet on February 16th, 2008

A client asked me what they should do with their [tag]economic stimulus[/tag] [tag]tax rebate[/tag] they will get later this year. (So will you!). Usually I tell people to pay down debt if they have any. They don’t have any. They also have already maxed out their [tag]IRA[/tag]s for 2008. But, they have kids! So I [...]

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