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Author Archives: Nancy Anderson

Retirement Preparedness: What Employees Need to Know About Investing

There is information that is nice to know and information that you need to know but what you really need to know is — the difference.  For example, my husband is a history buff with an avid interest in politics.  When we have friends over and we are discussing politics or world affairs, he often [...]

Getting Out of Debt By Thinking About It: I Don’t Think So

I will have to admit that I have not read the book, The Secret.  Right from the beginning, the whole concept turned me off so I didn’t read it.  I guess that would be saying that I am judging a book by its cover.  Well,  so be it, I guess. Here’s what turned me off, [...]

Financial Wellness: Getting Started by Taking it from Concept to Practice

Physical wellness is a much easier concept to understand than financial wellness but they are actually intertwined together since finances are the leading cause of stress and stress is the leading cause of illness.  This hit me this week because I decided to try something new (that’s my New Year’s resolution — try 52 new [...]

Bring Your Lunch to Work and Send Your Kid to College

Bringing your lunch to work will help you save enough to send your kid to college?  Yeah, right.  There have been books out in the past few years talking about how if you make your coffee at home you can retire on the proceeds – David Bach coined the phrase “The Latte Factor.”  Many people thought that [...]

Financial Education: Estate Planning — Three Things to do in an Hour

Have you seen the new show – that re-make of Hawaii 5-0?  Here is the premise: A divorced cop (James Caan’s son) from New Jersey moves to Hawaii to be near his young daughter – add some hip native Hawaiian cops and skimpy bathing suits.  Doesn’t sound like a winner does it?  Well if you [...]