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America Saves Week 2011 is scheduled for February 20 to the 27th. What have you planned to encourage your employees to take financial action through saving, debt reduction, and wealth building?
The American Savings Education Council (ASEC) first piloted America Saves Week in 2007, with the goals of:
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 made sense in the 90’s when the market went up almost every year. They could take the difference and invest it in mutual funds. But, does it really make a difference to scrimp and save? Read more »
Over the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to meet with a number of people who are recent college graduates just starting their careers. Boy, has the world changed a little bit since I graduated! The first thing I noticed is that starting salaries today are what managers’ salaries were when I was starting my career. And, as my kids would tell you, back when I graduated from college I still had to feed my pet dinosaur on my way to work. Is it wrong to occasionally want to sell your kids on EBay? Back to the point. Read more »
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 guessed that it was almost unbearable to watch, you were correct. Did I watch the whole show? Yes. I am not sure why but it was a complete waste of time. Read more »
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Host: Nancy Anderson, CFP®
Guest: Dr. Annamaria Lusardi, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Why are we all so financially illiterate? One reason may be that financial education has not kept up with the pace of increasing financial complexities. In this month’s episode Dr. Lusardi discusses the state of financial literacy in America and suggests some ways that we can all become more financially capable.
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