Category 2006-2007
blog31dec2006
Hot Off the Web In “Making Your House Pay in Your Retirement” with the subtitle “Reverse Mortgages Turn your Home Equity into Income, and Costs- a Big Drawback- Are Coming Down” Opdyke of the WSJ discusses how growing competition and government action in the U.S. is starting to bring down the costs of reverse mortgages. […]
blog23dec2006
Hot Off the Web In Financial Post article “Live the Good Life, but Save for the Worst” Jonathan Chevreaux discusses how sudden changes in ones health situation reassesses one’s priorities and how “…should live each day as if it were our last because one day it will be. Spending as if there is no tomorrow […]
blog13dec2006
Hot Off the Web WSJ ran a special section on retirement. A couple of stand-out articles are: “The Retirement Lies We Tell Ourselves” discusses the quicksand upon which many build their retirement dreams. Examples include the false expectations of: working in retirement, the home as the safety net, living on 70-80% of pre-retirement income, getting […]