Monthly Archives : May 2014
Money Fix: Pros and cons of real estate investments
May 28, 2014
“THE CONS. “Real estate creates millionaires, but also bankruptcies,” warns Avani Ramnani, a certified financial planner with Francis Financial in Manhattan.”
Stacy Francis on NBR, Women & Money
Aired May 22, 2014
“A new study shows that in the U.S. women are responsible for almost 40 percent of all investible assets.”
When love won’t keep them together
If late-in-live divorce can happen to Captain & Tennille, surely it can — and will — happen to some of your baby boomer clients. An analysis of data from U.S. Vital Statistics and from the American Community Survey reveals that back in 1990, about 206,000 people age 50 and over got divorced. That number climbed to 643,152 in 2010, according to a 2012 academic research paper, “The Gray Divorce Revolution: Rising Divorce Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults, 1990-2010.”And the number is forecast to surge to 828,380 by 2030, according to the paper’s authors, Susan L. Brown and I-Fen