Download or read book 31 Simple Rules for Protecting Your IRAs and 401 k s written by Steve Weisman and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Protecting Your IRAs and 401(k)s (ISBN: 9780132333849) by Steve Weisman. Available in print and digital formats. A quick, indispensable checklist for better retirement decision-making and financial planning--and a more secure, comfortable retirement! When it comes to retirement, the decisions you make earlier in life can go a long way in determining your financial success or failure in retirement and the quality of your retirement experience. Knowing and following a few simple rules can help you make good decisions....

Download or read book The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty written by Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at last are the hard-to-find answers to the dizzying array of financial questions plaguing those who are age fifty and older. The financial world is more complex than ever, and people are struggling to make sense of it all. If you’re like most people moving into the phase of life where protecting—as well as growing-- assets is paramount, you’re faced with a number of financial puzzles. Maybe you’re struggling to get your kids through college without drawing down your life’s savings. Perhaps you sense your nest egg is at risk and want to move into safer investments. Maybe you’re contemplating downsizing to a smaller home, but aren’t sure of the financial implications. Possibly, medical expenses have become a bigger drain than you expected and you need help assessing options. Perhaps you’ll shortly be eligible for social security but want to optimize when and how to take it. Whatever your specific financial issue, one thing is certain—your range of choices is vast. As the financial world becomes increasingly complex, what you need is deeply researched advice from professionals whose credentials are impeccable and who prize clarity and straightforwardness over financial mumbo-jumbo. Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz and the Schwab team have been helping clients tackle their toughest money issues for decades. Through Carrie’s popular “Ask Carrie” columns, her leadership of the Charles Schwab Foundation, and her work across party lines through two White House administrations and with the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability, she has become one of America’s most trusted sources for financial advice. Here, Carrie will not only answer all the questions that keep you up at night, she’ll provide answers to many questions you haven’t considered but should.

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Download or read book Some Quick Easy Ways to Raise Your Credit Score written by Carolyn Warren and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Homebuyers Beware: Who’s Ripping You Off Now?--What You Must Know About the New Rules of Mortgage and Credit (ISBN: 9780137020164) by Carolyn Warren. Available in print and digital formats. Nine practical ways to raise your score--quickly and easily! Do you just love supporting the fat cats on Wall Street? Want more of your hard-earned money going to increase their profits? No? Then you must pay attention to your credit score so you can qualify for a lower interest rate and pay less. Your FICO score, developed by those thoughtful Fair Isaac Corporation folks, is....

Download or read book The House Loan Process in Ten Easy Steps written by Carolyn Warren and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Homebuyers Beware: Who’s Ripping You Off Now?--What You Must Know About the New Rules of Mortgage and Credit (ISBN: 9780137020164) by Carolyn Warren. Available in print and digital formats. The simplest, clearest, quickest, step-by-step guide to today’s home loan processes! I’ve seen loan process flowcharts so elaborate, I wonder if the author’s purpose was to try to impress me with the complexity and enormity of their job. By contrast, here is a simple checklist that leads you through the steps, from start to finish. Step #1: Get a Good Faith Estimate and choose your loan officer....

Download or read book Some Aggressive Ways to Fix Your Credit written by Carolyn Warren and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Homebuyers Beware: Who’s Ripping You Off Now?--What You Must Know About the New Rules of Mortgage and Credit (ISBN: 9780137020164) by Carolyn Warren. Available in print and digital formats. Three powerful, aggressive, and 100% legal ways to improve your credit rating--starting right now! Here’s the reality--the insider information I never see written on credit bureau or government Web sites or so-called helpful articles about credit. Late payments may--not must--be reported to credit bureaus. And if someone at Visa wants to not report my one-day-late payment, that is their prerogative. It’s not illegal and it’s not lying....

Download or read book Making Sure Your Finances Are in Order Before Being Laid Off written by Martha I. Finney and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha Finney. Available in print and digital formats. A step-by-step plan for financial self-protection: make it easier to survive a layoff financially, whether you expect one or not. Even if you aren’t facing an immediate layoff, there are actions you can and should take to put yourself in the best position to absorb the financial shock should the time come. Being employed makes it easier to make some of these changes, so consider doing them now....

Download or read book Make Your Credit Cards Work for You Instead of You for Them written by Gregory Karp and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to Get More of What You Really Want (ISBN: 9780132350099) by Gregory Karp. Available in print and digital formats. Even the odds! How to play the credit game right and save a fortune! Credit card companies are masters at separating you from your money. But you have power too. Did you know credit card companies will take a little less money from you--and all you have to do is ask? Periodically, call and ask for three things: a lower interest rate, a higher limit, and waived fees. You can save literally thousands....

Download or read book Make Sure You Have a Plan for Your Exit Before You are Laid Off written by Martha I. Finney and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha Finney. Available in print and digital formats. Be ready: know what to say and do when they’re laying you off...what never to say and do...and what to do if you lose it! Almost every layoff includes a long walk down a hall to a room with a closed door. You know who’s behind that door. Your boss. Maybe someone from HR. You want to handle the meeting with dignity, but you’re afraid you’ll lose it. That walk is your chance to regroup and prepare....

Download or read book Fighting Identity Theft written by Carolyn Warren and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Homebuyers Beware: Who’s Ripping You Off Now?--What You Must Know About the New Rules of Mortgage and Credit (ISBN: 9780137020164) by Carolyn Warren. Available in print and digital formats. Ten powerful new ways to prevent or respond to identity theft--techniques you haven’t already heard! You’re sitting at the kitchen table sipping hot coffee, when, out of the blue, there’s a loud banging at the front door. The police bust into the room shouting your name. One reads you your rights, while the other slaps handcuffs on your wrists. You’re under arrest for the murder of two women. Sound far-fetched? Michael Berry of Arlington, Virginia, had his identity stolen by a convicted murderer....

Download or read book Homebuying Tips on How to Get the World s Cheapest Loan written by Carolyn Warren and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Homebuyers Beware: Who’s Ripping You Off Now?--What You Must Know About the New Rules of Mortgage and Credit (ISBN: 9780137020164) by Carolyn Warren. Available in print and digital formats. Don’t put up with the financial services industry’s rip-offs: Learn how to get an amazingly great deal on your next mortgage! When Leanne applied for a home loan, she didn’t expect to get the runaround, lies, bait and switch, condescension, imbecilic answers, and meaningless fees. If you, like Leanne, just want a low rate and a fair deal, you’ll benefit from knowing what happened to her--and how she ended up getting the world’s cheapest loan.

Download or read book Presenting Data in Charts and Tables written by David M. Levine and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statistics (ISBN: 9780137010592) by David M. Levine and David F. Stephan. Available in print and digital formats. How to present charts and tables that viewers will grasp immediately: visual information anyone can use! In an information-overloaded world, you simply must present information effectively. Using charts and tables, you can present categorical and numerical data far more clearly and efficiently. In this Element, we’ll show you exactly how to select and develop easy-to-understand charts and tables for the types of data you’re most likely to work with.

Download or read book Homebuying Tips on Credit and Credit Scores written by Carolyn Warren and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from Homebuyers Beware: Who’s Ripping You Off Now?--What You Must Know About the New Rules of Mortgage and Credit (ISBN: 9780137020164) by Carolyn Warren. Available in print and digital formats. The new rules of credit: what you need to know--and do--to get credit today! For many years, it seemed as if anyone could get credit--and they did. Well, we know how that turned out! In the fall of 2008, that house of cards came crashing down. Today, credit is king. What do you need to know about good credit in the new credit era?

Download or read book Getting Your Retirement Act Right written by Trent A. Hamm and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Simple Dollar: How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams (9780137054251) by Trent Hamm. Available in print and digital formats. Retirement: how to start imagining and planning your exciting “next act”! Retirement no longer equals idleness. The new frontier of building professional opportunities comes from connecting with communities of peers who are also engaged in your career. Rather than focusing on who you are, they value what you can provide–and Americans nearing retirement age have a lot to offer. So, what excites you? What do you want to do next?

Download or read book Managing Your Personal Finances Better written by Trent A. Hamm and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Simple Dollar: How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams (9780137054251) by Trent Hamm. Available in print and digital formats. Why frivolous spending closes the doors to your best future opportunities–and how to reopen them. The more you spend today, the more restricted your choices tomorrow. The less you spend, the more choices you have tomorrow–a new career, a new relationship, a new life. Every time you spend frivolously, you shut off some of life’s great opportunities...

Download or read book How to Break Free from Your Own Debt Prison written by Trent A. Hamm and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Simple Dollar: How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams (9780137054251) by Trent Hamm. Available in print and digital formats. How three years of focused debt repayment transformed Trent Hamm’s life–and how you can do it, too. Your greatest personal freedom comes when you get rid of your debts–all of them. It sounds impossible. But in about three years, we paid off $48,000, and our financial status became so secure that I could walk away from my full-time job and follow my dream of being a full-time writer. Three years of focused debt repayment transformed our lives. Here’s how we did it...

Download or read book Who Can You Trust with the Financial Planning of Your Money written by Bonnie Kirchner and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Who Can You Trust With Your Money? Get the Help You Need Now and Avoid Dishonest Advisors (9780137033652), by Bonnie Kirchner. Available in print and digital formats. Understand the field of financial planning, so you can get the advice you need--and can rely on. Financial planning includes many components, and it is difficult for any one advisor to be expert in all of them. It’s similar to medicine. Some advisors with a broad base of knowledge act as generalists, often working with clients in a holistic manner--but they might have to find “specialists” in more complex situations. Whoever you work with, though, you need an integrated financial plan....