Retirement

You’ve no doubt heard that the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period started January 1. Also going on right now is the General Enrollment Period (GEP). It is not as well known but it is very important for those who do not have complete Medicare coverage. These questions address the important points. What is the General

“Nobody wants to hear your story, they want to be invited into a story,” Donald Miller told me, in a recent interview about his new book, Building A StoryBrand 2.0. That’s it. That’s how financial planning—or perhaps more accurately, financial planners—have got the story all wrong. And regardless of the type of business that you’re

Congress and the IRS made inheriting an IRA a very complicated, confusing event. Inherited IRAs are accompanied by a host of little-known rules that are traps for the unwary. In this post, I discuss the classic misunderstandings and mistakes about inherited IRAs. I’m not going to discuss the more recent difficulties brought by the enactment

The devastating wildfires that are ravaging Los Angeles are a stark reminder of how vulnerable older adults can be during disasters. Tragically, some elders who were mobility challenged or who had no transportation to allow them to escape, lost their lives in those fires. This highlights the critical need for proactive disaster preparedness. If your

Despite his vow to close the U.S. borders to nearly all immigrants and deport millions of others, President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll continue special H-1B work visas for tech workers. That decision came in response to some of his Silicon Valley supporters, who insist foreign labor is critical because there are not enough U.S.-born engineers