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We’ve never shied away from highlighting the risk to older adults of being scammed and defrauded. Whether fraudsters are after your personal information or are going directly for your assets, few are safe from a scammer intent on stealing something of value from you. The amount of reported losses in…

By Barry Feigenbaum   Welcome back to Your Money Matters. In this installment, I want to discuss how your financial planning functions like a driving app on your phone; you know, like Google Maps or Waze. It’s a tool that tells us how to get to where we want to…

By Kathleen M. Rehl, Ph.D., CFP®, CeFT® Emeritus   The death of a spouse is not only heartbreaking. It can also thrust a woman into a maze of decisions she may not have expected to face alone. In the midst of grief, even routine money matters can feel unfamiliar. And…

We certainly live in an “interesting” time. Class, cultural, and political divisions are rampant throughout the country, and tensions are high as violence becomes more common and partisanship and social media blind us from universally shared facts and truth. In such times, it’s natural to see younger people front and…

So what birthday will you be celebrating in 2026? If you’re reaching the milestone of 80, congratulations, you’re at the head of the line of Baby Boomers entering this later stage of life. With the current average life expectancy being 78.9 years, you’re an “overachiever,” aligned with the competitiveness that…

Scams that target older adults are nothing new: we’ve been highlighting the various scams and frauds perpetrated against older people for years. But each year, the technology seems to get a bit better, the fraud seems to get harder to detect, and our radar to sniff out when we’re being…