Mar
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2011
Retirement Planning Services
I need a simple site that compares Obama and McCain on all the issues?
I need a site that will compare McCain and Obama in the following areas:
1. the economy (including employment issues, affordability of goods and services, credit, Retirement Planning, savings)
2. health care and health insurance
3. crime and the criminal justice system (including crime prevention, access to fair treatment under the law, drug laws, etc.)
4. education and access to higher education
5. discrimination and civil rights (racism, sexism, homophobia/gay marriage, etc.)
6. affordable housing
7. employment (creation of jobs, fair wages, other strategies to reduce unemployment)
8. reproductive rights (including abortion, sex education, birth control, etc.)
9. immigration and undocumented immigrants
page one: http://www.grassfire.org/candidatecharts/charta.asp
page two: http://www.grassfire.org/candidatecharts/chartb.asp
It has other candidates who are since gone, but it has both McCain and Obama, and it lists all their views (which haven’t changed since that was made).
Retirement Plan Services
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Retirement Planning – How to Plan for the Best Years of Your Life and Enjoy Every Moment! $8.99 … |
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Retirement Planning – How to Retire With Millions in the Bank $4.95 … |
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How To Plan An Enjoyable Retirement $7.99 … |
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Quicken Premier 2010 [OLD VERSION] $19.88 Quicken Premier 2010 has all of the features of Quicken Deluxe–plus investment management tools to help track your portfolio performance and help maximize your investments. Provides comprehensive investing and planning tools. Click to enlarge. Helps you make better buy/sell decisions. Click to enlarge. Check in anytime to see exact… |
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Microsoft Money 2007 Premium [OLD VERSION] $79.99 Optimize your financial outlook while managing yourdaily financesMicrosoft Money 2007 Premium consolidates your banking, credit and investmentaccounts in one place and provides the tools you need to plan and achieve yourshort- and long-term financial goals. Microsoft Money 2007 Premium helps you plan and achieve long-term financialgoals, and optimize investments, all in one place. You c… |
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WealthTrace Retirement Planner [Download] $199.00 WealthTrace Retirement Planner Figure out your retirement situation quickly: Get started immediately without having to read a large user manual The program wizard will guide you through each step View vivid graphs and the most important retirement numbers on the screen: You will see your most important numbers change in real time as you change retirement inputs and assumptions View how mu… |
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Saving for Retirement without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery $15.99 This is the eBook version of the printed book.Award-winning personal finance columnist read by millions of people each week The Incredibly Simple, Step-by-Step Guide to Investing Money for Your Future! “A cover-to-cover must-read for everyone 16 to 60 who wants to live the American Dream. The earlier we choosetosave®, the sooner we can stop saving, and the later we start savin… |
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Poverty Sucks! How to Become a Self-Made Millionaire Aimee Elizabeth was a throwaway kid at age 15. Lots of low paying (but legal!) jobs kept her from starving. Realizing that Poverty Sucks! Aimee started her first business at age 20, and retired at age 38, now a multi-millionaire & successful real estate investor. Aimee wants to share her secrets for financial freedom with the world.Aimee also gets great joy from helping entrpreneurs, landlords and… |
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A Beginner’s Guide to Investing: How to Grow Your Money the Smart and Easy Way $0.99 Whether you’re a complete investing novice or just confused about all the contradictory advice out there, A Beginner’s Guide to Investing is an accessible guide to growing your money the smart and easy way.Throw away the get-rich quick schemes that never work and turn off the financial news and it’s constant noise. Whether your dream is protecting your assets in a turbulent market or growing your … |
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10 Ways to Fund a College Education Without Giving Up Your Retirement $13.02 Used – 10 Ways to Fund a College Education Without Giving Up Your Retirement presents, in clear and concise language, the most viable options to consider when planning how to fund your child’s — or grandchild’s — higher education. The author, H. Roger Daisley, a former executive at several of the most prestigious and respected companies in the U.S. financial services industry, outlines the pros and cons of various investment vehicles and tax incentives, and how each might apply to a typical Am |
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101 Businesses You Can Start with Less Than One Thousand Dollars: For Retirees $7.19 According to a study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, people starting their working careers will face the following situation when they retire at age 65: they will have annual incomes between $4,000.00 and $26,000.00. According to the Social Security Administration, today’s retirees can only count on corporate pensions and Social Security for 61 percent of their income at retirement. The remainder must come from other sources. If the same holds true in the future, today’s workers need to accumulate enough in personal savings to make up a 39 percent shortfall in their retirement income. The solution for many after they have played enough golf and caught enough fish will be to start a small part-time business. Detailed in this new book are over 100 business ideas that can be started for very little money and yet may provide retired people with a lot more money than they would earn being paid by the hour. This is a collection of businesses selected especially for retirees who are interested in augmenting their income. These businesses can be started with minimum training and investment and are all capable of producing extra income. Most can easily be operated by one person and eventually be sold for an additional profit. Many of these businesses can actually be started with less than one hundred dollars and some can really be started with next to nothing. Some can even be operated from home. Starting and managing a business takes motivation and talent. It also takes research and planning. This new book is intended to serve as a roadmap for starting your business. It is both comprehensive and easy to use. It also includes numerous Web links for additional information. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you in developing a winning business plan, setting up the structure of the business and accounting and bookkeeping procedures, tending to legal concerns, devising sales and marketing techniques, calculating |
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Age-Related Memory Loss: 20 to 100 Years – A Research Study of Healthy Adults $258.21 What happens to memory during the ninth and tenth decades of life? The research conducted by Dr Lamont challenges the earlier perception that a linear decline occurs from about 40 years of age until late old age. On the contrary, the linear theory was found to be inaccurate for many types of memory. There is good news for those in the 50-70 age group, and beyond that startling variations in memory abilities were found in this study of healthy adults from 20 to 100 years of age. The rapidly aging population will make these findings critical in future planning. Clinicians, legislators, researchers, decision makers in the fields of town planning, retirement, health and community services, and care of the elderly will find the research outcomes fundamental in planning for rapid growth in the 85+ sector of the population. Understanding how this age group will be able to function in society is crucial to the retention of independence and quality of life for our oldest citizens. |
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America’s Corporate Brain Drain $3.99 “Press ‘1’ to listen to five more phone menus. If this is an emergency, please hold forever for the next available operator….”If you hate phone menus, you’re not alone. When big companies saw data proving that up to 70 percent of callers press “0” to reach a live operator, they did exactly what you’d expect. Instead of getting live operators to answer the phones, they disabled the “zero out” function.From gas-guzzling SUVs to free checking accounts that charge for checkbooks and offer pointless point programs (50 percent of points are never redeemed), big businesses in America are disconnected. Most no longer offer the best products and services.”America’s Corporate Brain Drain” forecast the crumbling of big banks and big businesses. It reveals that the swell of me-too products and lousy service is because the best people no longer work in Goliath companies. We’re moving forward with Toyota and connecting with Nokia because the brightest sparks in the U.S. have left big corporations or are planning exit strategies.The 27 million small-business owners didn’t get the boot—89 percent of entrepreneurs quit their former positions. Boomers are negotiating for early retirement to start hobby jobs. Grads aren’t willing to climb towering corporate ladders. Of the employees still stuck in big companies, 70 percent are unhappy with their jobs.In “America’s Corporate Brain Drain,” corporate deserters, employees, and consumers who are fed up with behemoth banks and big old phone companies will find the real reasons why big business stopped working. And they’ll discover how Americans, who are increasingly unwilling to put up with inferior products and the corporate culture that creates them, are regaining control. |
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America’s Corporate Brain Drain: Why We Leave, Where We Go, How We Can Reverse the Flow $1.99 “Press ’1′ to listen to five more phone menus. If this is an emergency, please stay on the line forever for the next available operator . . . .”If you hate phone menus, you’re not alone. When big companies saw data proving that up to 70 percent of callers press “0″ to reach a live operator, they did exactly what you’d expect. Instead of getting live operators to answer the phones, they disabled the “zero out” function.From gouging gas prices to free checking accounts that charge for checkbooks and offer pointless point programs (50 percent of points are never redeemed), big businesses in America are disconnected. Most no longer offer the best products and services. America’s Corporate Brain Drain reveals that the swell of me-too products and lousy service is because the best people no longer work in Goliath companies. We’re moving forward with Toyota and connecting with Nokia because the brightest sparks in the U.S. have left big corporations or are planning exit strategies. The 27 million small-business owners didn’t get the boot-89 percent of entrepreneurs quit their former positions. Boomers are negotiating for early retirement to start hobby jobs. Grads aren’t willing to climb towering corporate ladders. Of the employees still stuck in big companies, 70 percent are unhappy with their jobs.In America’s Corporate Brain Drain, corporate deserters, employees, and consumers who are fed up with behemoth banks and big old phone companies will find the real reasons why big business stopped working. And they’ll discover how Americans, who are increasingly unwilling to put up with inferior products and the corporate culture that createsthem, are regaining control. |
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Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Create Your Own Pension Plan for a Secure Financial Future $27.99 “Moshe Milevsky offers an original and clear re-thinking of the most fundamental concept in one’s financial lifetime: the management of risk, in all of its not-so-obvious dimensions.”—Nick Murray, author, Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth “This book is another example of Moshe Milevsky’s ability to make the complex understandable…an excellent primer—for both advisors and their clients alike—on the ‘How Tos’ of effective retirement income planning.”—Jim Rogers, CFP, 2008 President, The Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)“In this new book, the author presents a holistic framework for investors and advisors to think about critical issues that impact investment decisions, such as human capital, mortality risk, and longevity risk. But even more importantly, Milevsky presents practical solutions that we can all follow to achieve financial security throughout our lives. This book is a must-read for everyone in the financial services industry.”—Peng Chen, CFA, Ibbotson Associates“This is an extremely timely and valuable book. Our financial lives have never been more complex, and the challenges for many are daunting. Milevsky provides a new perspective that can really help people make better financial decisions and attain a greater level of financial security.”—Matt Greenwald, President, Mathew Greenwald & Associates“The author has written an instant classic that will help people become better-educated retirement customers and also help financial advisors improve their professional skills.”—Francois Gadenne, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director, Retirement Income Industry Association (RIIA)“Milevsky delivers one of the best books to date on personal financial planning—a refreshing blend of content, conceptual correctness, and clarity. Buy it. Read it. Do it.”—Richard M. Ennis, Chairman, |
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Aviation Maintenance Management $62.95 MAINTAIN SAFER AIRCRAFT — AND A SOUNDER BOTTOM LINEThis unique resource helps managers develop and run efficient, reliable, and cost-effective airline maintenance programs. Former Boeing official and now Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University teacher Harry Kinnison’s Aviation Maintenance Management shows you every step of planning a maintenance program and getting it up and running. More than that, it helps you:* Save money by maintaining aircraft to a higher standard* Minimize aircraft downtime while slashing maintenance and repair costs* Apply systems concepts for improved integration and communication* Upgrade technical and provisioning functions* Improve efficiency in meeting regulatory requirements* Identify and monitor maintenance program problems and trends* Stay on top on quality assurance, quality control, reliability standards, and safety issues* Fine-tune your approach to the human factors in maintenanceHarry A. Kinnison, Ph.D., worked for the Boeing Company for 20 years, 10 as a specialist in the Maintenance and Ground Operations Systems Group of the Customer Services Organization. Specifically, he represented Boeing to airlines on the ETOPS (extended-range twin-engine operations) program, participated in airline maintenance evaluations, and helped airlines develop reliability programs. Since his retirement from Boeing in 2000, he has taught aviation maintenance management courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. He developed this book because no suitable text for courses such as his existed. |
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Fearless Retirement $17.78 New – In every city and community, hundreds of baby boomers are on the cusp of a major life transition called retirement. Many of whom fear running out of money during their golden years more than they fear dying. This book will explain why you don’t have to be fearful about your retirement. In Fearless Retirement: How to retire without financial worry, retirement planning expert Conrad Toner pulls the curtains back on the financial services industry to reveal some shocking truths, and provides |
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Fearless Retirement $17.78 Used – In every city and community, hundreds of baby boomers are on the cusp of a major life transition called retirement. Many of whom fear running out of money during their golden years more than they fear dying. This book will explain why you don’t have to be fearful about your retirement. In Fearless Retirement: How to retire without financial worry, retirement planning expert Conrad Toner pulls the curtains back on the financial services industry to reveal some shocking truths, and provides |
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How to Become a Successful Financial Consultant: Making a Living Investing Other People’s Money $8.94 How to become a Successful Financial Consultant Written by Jim Ainsworth, a financial planning professional with 30 years in the business, this valuable guide provides professionals interested in making the move into financial consulting with everything they need to know to make a living investing other people’s money. Drawing on his personal experiences and those of colleagues across North America, Ainsworth covers all the bases. He begins by describing the three major groups of financial planners and the seven different styles of asset management and helps you to decide which is fight for you. You find out all about the various types of financial planning that most consultants deal with—including estate planning, retirement planning, and family financial planning—and the best investment vehicles currently available. Ainsworth then cuts to the chase and provides the nuts-and-bolts information you need to make it as a financial adviser. Writing in a down-to-earth style, he tells you what type of education and experience you need to become an effective financial consultant, how to become licensed, how to get started in business, how to set fees and receive compensation, how to market your services and promote different financial instruments, and much more. He shows you how to develop a surefire success plan, and he supplies expert advice and guidance on how to avoid the top 10 beginners’ mistakes. Throughout this book, Ainsworth advocates taking a holistic approach to financial planning—one that takes into consideration not just people’s differing needs, but their contrasting attitudes about money and investments. To that end, he provides insightful profiles of the different types of "money personalities" in the financial world and shows you how to identify and successfully work with each type. How to Become a Successful Financial Consultant is your complete guide to making it in today’s fastest growing sector of the |
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How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Personal Financial Planning Business: With Companion CD-ROM $25.68 Used – Millions of Americans every year have troubles with their finances. They turn to experts in droves, asking for help in filing their taxes, consolidating their debt, or just planning how they will pay their bills and invest their retirement funds. For anyone looking to become a financial planner, there is a huge amount of room open to step into the industry and start providing your expertise and services to individuals across the board of American finances.This book was written for anyone |
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How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Personal Financial Planning Business: With Companion CD-ROM $25.68 New – Millions of Americans every year have troubles with their finances. They turn to experts in droves, asking for help in filing their taxes, consolidating their debt, or just planning how they will pay their bills and invest their retirement funds. For anyone looking to become a financial planner, there is a huge amount of room open to step into the industry and start providing your expertise and services to individuals across the board of American finances.This book was written for anyone w |
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Internet Guide To Personal Finance And Investment $75 In the past few years, using the Internet for information and guidance in the area of personal finance has become the obsession of more and more Americans. This guide provides the needed direction to locate the appropriate intelligence to answer questions about current personal financial needs. Covering over 1400 carefully selected Web sites, part 1 includes resources for financing personal goals, such as education and retirement. Other sections of the book offer sites on investment choices and services, managing and protecting assets, personal banking, debt management, estate planning, insurance, and taxation. For each site, the author has included a summary description to highlight the contents, features, and sponsor. Sites were chosen based on ease of navigation, timeliness of information, scope, and level of free access. Indexes are by Web site sponsor and subject. |
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Investment Basics for Women: The Essential Guide to Taking Control of Your Finances $3.99 New – What should be required reading for women of all ages, this guide provides easy-to-comprehend advice on every aspect of investing including choosing stocks, planning for retirement, selecting mutual funds, and using online services for financial help. Loaded with real life examples and questions from Buy’s Investing Basics seminars, this book will help readers gain control over their money. Charts. |
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It Pays to Talk: How to Have the Essential Conversations with Your Family About Money and Investing $0.01 Charles Schwab and his daughter Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz know whereof they speak. Now these nationally known financial services specialists make their knowledge available to families in a close, father-daughter conversation about money that families can take to heart. Addressing one of the most difficult topics for families, the pair offer advice about how to have these essential yet sometimes delicate conversations with one’s spouse, parents, and children. Fundamental investing principles, building wealth, financial issues for couples and parents, retirement planning, estate planning, and preparing for the unexpected are all presented within the context of a family’s unique financial goals and priorities. |
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It’s Your Money: The E Trade Step-By-Step Guide to Online Investing $0.99 New – E*Trade is synonymous with online investing and a range of other financial services, from online banking to retirement planning. It provides complete company financial information free of charge, up-to-date research on stocks and mutual funds for fast buy-and-sell action, a bond center, and access to an online community of other investors (the “analysts of the future”) for an exchange of hot investment tips and strategies. E*TRADE not only provides low-cost trades, but distinguishes itself |
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging: Research and Clinical Perspectives $50 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging brings together cutting-edge research, practical information, and innovative thinking regarding the characteristics and processes of aging among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Written by experts in the field, the book covers a range of subjects and provides a comprehensive knowledge base for practitioners, students, and researchers. Contributors address topics such as sexuality, relationships, legal issues, retirement planning, physical and mental health, substance abuse, community needs, gay and lesbian grandparents, and a model agency dedicated to delivering services to the senior LGBT population. Their writing takes a gay-affirmative approach that focuses on resilience, coping, and successful adaptation to aging and is sensitive to the importance of historical oppression in the lives of older members of sexual minorities. The authors also pay close attention to ethnic and cultural issues and identify where further research is needed.Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging is a groundbreaking collection of some of the most significant voices in this area of research today. Gerontologists and those who serve the LGBT community are in great need of the information contained in this singular and definitive resource. |
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Private Wealth: Wealth Management In Practice $95 Managing the assets of high-net-worth individuals is a complex and comprehensive process. And with investors being asked to assume greater responsibility for their financial future—particularly as it relates to retirement planning—the demand for savvy wealth management services has grown immensely.That’s why Private Wealth: Wealth Management in Practice—the first in the CFA Institute Investment Perspectives series—has been created. CFA Institute has a long tradition of publishing content from industry thought leaders, and now, this new collection offers unparalleled guidance to those working in the rapidly evolving field of investment management.Organized around 23 informative pieces drawn from the Research Foundation of CFA Institute, the Financial Analysts Journal, and CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly, this reliable resource taps into the vast store of knowledge of some of the most prominent thought leaders in private wealth—from Nobel Prize winners and academics to practitioners—who have focused their energies on solving the complex problems facing individual investors.Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this guide skillfully addresses the essential issues found in today’s private wealth arena, including life-cycle investing, investment management for taxable private clients, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and after-tax performance measurement. Although the work contains material ranging from practical guidance on common problems, such as managing concentrated stock positions, to frontier thinking that pushes the boundaries of traditional practice, all of the ideas found here can help you become a better wealth manager.This guide is divided into four parts that address the critical issues in private wealth management:Part I puts the state of financial planning in perspective with Robert Merton’s “The Future of Retirement Planning” and Paul Samuelson’s “Is Personal |
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Private Wealth: Wealth Management in Practice $54.85 Managing the assets of high-net-worth individuals is a complex and comprehensive process. And with investors being asked to assume greater responsibility for their financial future—particularly as it relates to retirement planning—the demand for savvy wealth management services has grown immensely.That’s why Private Wealth: Wealth Management in Practice—the first in the CFA Institute Investment Perspectives series—has been created. CFA Institute has a long tradition of publishing content from industry thought leaders, and now, this new collection offers unparalleled guidance to those working in the rapidly evolving field of investment management.Organized around 23 informative pieces drawn from the Research Foundation of CFA Institute, the Financial Analysts Journal, and CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly, this reliable resource taps into the vast store of knowledge of some of the most prominent thought leaders in private wealth—from Nobel Prize winners and academics to practitioners—who have focused their energies on solving the complex problems facing individual investors.Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this guide skillfully addresses the essential issues found in today’s private wealth arena, including life-cycle investing, investment management for taxable private clients, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and after-tax performance measurement. Although the work contains material ranging from practical guidance on common problems, such as managing concentrated stock positions, to frontier thinking that pushes the boundaries of traditional practice, all of the ideas found here can help you become a better wealth manager.This guide is divided into four parts that address the critical issues in private wealth management:Part I puts the state of financial planning in perspective with Robert Merton’s “The Future of Retirement Planning” and Paul Samuelson’s “Is Personal Finance |
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Quicken WillMaker Premium 2010 with Living Trust Maker $16.28 Quicken WillMaker Premium 2010 Estate Planning Software provides the legal forms required to create an effective estate plan. Just launch the software, follow a simple, guided step-by-step interview, and in 30 minutes or less you can create the following documents, customized to suit your unique circumstances and reflect the laws of your state (Estate planning documents not valid in Louisiana). Also includes 10 important estate planning, family and retirement resources so you can protect your family and assets, and save on legal fees. Make a living trust and spare your family the hassle and expense of probate. Wills let you provide for your family, friends and charities, name someone to care for your children, and appoint an executor to carry out your wishes. Health Care Directives let you control your medical care when you are unable. Create a Living Will to get the care you want and spare your family turmoil at the end of life. Make a Health Care Power of Attorney to permit a loved one to make important medical decisions in case you can’t. Financial Powers of Attorney let you name someone you trust to take care of finances if you are unable to yourself. Final Arrangements smooth the way for your family, letting them know your preferences regarding burial, cremation and even the memorial services you want. Executor Documents help the person you choose to handle your estate do the job right. You ll also get dozens of helpful every day personal finance forms and home and family documents, such as child, elder and pet care agreements and authorizations for minor s medical treatment and foreign travel. Free legal updates keep your documents current through 2010. And if you get stuck along the way, the program s comprehensive yet plain English online legal manual is just a click away. Let WillMaker help you do it right. so easy to use, anyone can make an estate plan. And so reliable, lawyers use it too. |
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Retirement Bible $2 New – Your one-stop guide for all you need to know about the ins and outs of planning a successful retirement — it’s never too early to start. Indside the Retirement Bible you’ll find: How to play the retirement savings game — putting together and sticking to a retirement check list Tips on cutting through the clutter of financial advisors — your best sources for finding them, the questions to ask them, matching their services with your needs The inside scoop on private money managers — shou |
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Retirement Bible $34.99 Your one-stop guide for all you need to know about the ins and outs of planning a successful retirement — it”s never too early to start. Indside the Retirement Bible you”ll find: * How to play the retirement savings game — putting together and sticking to a retirement check list * Tips on cutting through the clutter of financial advisors — your best sources for finding them, the questions to ask them, matching their services with your needs * The inside scoop on private money managers — should you hire your own? * 401K contribution strategies — getting the 401K you deserve, escaping a potential 401K nightmare, and alternatives for your 401K when you leave a job * Stock picking 101 — how stocks measure up, value versus growth, mutual funds, and new alternatives * Establishing trusts — ten steps in creating a great trust * and much, much more! |
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Retirement Countdown: Take Action Now to Get the Life You Want $19.95 Retirement CountdownTAKE ACTION NOW TO GET THE LIFE YOU WANTBy David Shapiro How important is it to pay attention to this book? How important is it to live without fear? How important is it to be able to help your children and grandchildren? How important is it to be able to enjoy yourself after you retire instead of living in terror? How important is it to live on the golf course instead of in a single room of a retirement hotel? Or, to put it another way, this book is important, and rarely has a book so important been so much fun to read. –Ben Stein, Economist, Lawyer, Writer, TV Personality and Honorary Chair of the National Retirement Planning Coalition. Retirement Countdown offers a wonderful perspective on retirement issues. Not only does the book create awareness, it helps solve the problems faced by so many people who don’t know how to plan. By introducing Goal Oriented Retirement Planning, David Shapiro has created a breakthrough process for matching assets with goals and achieving success. This is must-read book! –Tom West, Retired Chairman and CEO, American General Retirement Services This book offers a comprehensive approach to retirement planning delivered in an enjoyable and easy-to-read format. I’m going to recommend it to all my clients in the pre-retirement stage. Shapiro makes the journey fun! –Pat Hanley-Peterson, Ph.D., Vice President, Director of Professional Services, Certified Executive Coach, Lee Hecht Harrison David Shapiro has for years been a source of information on financial instruments and trends for industry professionals. Now he uses that expertise to make information accessible to the general public. With this accessiblebook, David Shapiro makes the process of retirement planning less daunting for everyone, regardless of individual levels of expertise. –Juanita Brown, Senior Vice President, Associated Securities Don’t just read this book; use it. The author builds a powerful case for accepting |
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Retirement Security: The Importance of an Independent Investment Adviser: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor $23.99 New – Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2009. LC Number: KF27 .E3395 2009c OCLC Number: (OCoLC)471798583 Subject: Retirement income — United States — Planning. Excerpt: …11 services to a retirement plan or an IRA is a party in interest, and parties in interest can’t sell products to or provide services to plans or IRAs without an exemption. Up until the Pension Protection Act, there was no exemption that was applicable to fiduciary service providers that allowed them to provide ad |
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The 250 Questions Everyone Should Ask about Buying Foreclosures $9.95 Whether you’re looking to buy foreclosed property as an investment-or as your dream home, The 250 Questions Everyone Should Ask About Buying Foreclosures provides you with the essential questions and answers including how to:Decide if a foreclosure purchase is right for youLearn the foreclosure rules particular to your stateFind thousands of property listings before anyone elsePlace the perfect bid at auctions Buy properties during various stages of the foreclosure processGet an initial investment together This one-of-a-kind guide will explain everything you need to know to get in on-and profit from-this lucrative real estate opportunity. Lita Epstein, MBA, excels at translating complex financial topics critical to people’s everyday life. She has more than a dozen books on the market, including The 250 Questions You Need to Ask to Avoid Foreclosure, Streetwise(r) Crash Course MBA, Streetwise(r) Retirement Planning, and Alpha Teach Yourself Retirement Planning in 24 Hours. She was the content director for the financial services Web site MostChoice.com and managed the site Investing for Women. She also wrote TipWorld’s Mutual Fund Tip of the Day in addition to columns about mutual fund trends for numerous websites. She lives in Poinciana, FL. |
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The 250 Questions Everyone Should Ask about Buying Foreclosures $9.95 Whether you’re looking to buy foreclosed property as an investment-or as your dream home, The 250 Questions Everyone Should Ask About Buying Foreclosures provides you with the essential questions and answers including how to:Decide if a foreclosure purchase is right for youLearn the foreclosure rules particular to your stateFind thousands of property listings before anyone elsePlace the perfect bid at auctions Buy properties during various stages of the foreclosure processGet an initial investment together This one-of-a-kind guide will explain everything you need to know to get in on-and profit from-this lucrative real estate opportunity. Lita Epstein, MBA, excels at translating complex financial topics critical to people’s everyday life. She has more than a dozen books on the market, including The 250 Questions You Need to Ask to Avoid Foreclosure, Streetwise(r) Crash Course MBA, Streetwise(r) Retirement Planning, and Alpha Teach Yourself Retirement Planning in 24 Hours. She was the content director for the financial services Web site MostChoice.com and managed the site Investing for Women. She also wrote TipWorld’s Mutual Fund Tip of the Day in addition to columns about mutual fund trends for numerous websites. She lives in Poinciana, FL. |
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The American in Canada: Real-Life Tax and Financial Insights Into Moving to and Living in Canada $4.89 Used – For Americans either contemplating a move or already living in Canada, this reference answers all the questions necessary to successfully plan the transition, including immigration planning, customs planning, cash management, income tax planning, retirement, wills and estates, risk management, and investments. According to the Association for Canadian Studies, more than 10,000 Americans moved to Canada in 2006, a new 30-year record. The similarity in language, currency, culture, services, |
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The American in Canada: Real-Life Tax and Financial Insights Into Moving to and Living in Canada $28.69 New – For Americans either contemplating a move or already living in Canada, this reference answers all the questions necessary to successfully plan the transition, including immigration planning, customs planning, cash management, income tax planning, retirement, wills and estates, risk management, and investments. According to the Association for Canadian Studies, more than 10,000 Americans moved to Canada in 2006, a new 30-year record. The similarity in language, currency, culture, services, |
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The American in Canada: Real-Life Tax and Financial Insights into Moving and Living in Canada $17.95 For Americans either contemplating a move or already living in Canada, this reference answers all the questions necessary to successfully plan the transition, including immigration planning, customs planning, cash management, income tax planning, retirement, wills and estates, risk management, and investments. According to the Association for Canadian Studies, more than 10,000 Americans moved to Canada in 2006, a new 30-year record. The similarity in language, currency, culture, services, and products of these two countries can lead Americans in Canada to mistakenly think its laws and customs are also the same. With proper planning before moving, it is possible to get a five-year tax holiday from Canadian taxes! |
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The Boomer’s Guide to a Worry-Free Retirement $15.32 New – The SECRETS Your Broker Never Told You!A seismic shift has taken place in financial planning for people approaching retirement. When that change came along, author Thomas Helbig was more than ready for it. What is the new investment landscape all about? Americans planning for retirement have lost faith in risky, Wall Street-style investments. Meanwhile, new investment tools have come along, developed by the insurance sector of the financial services industry, to replace those high-risk veh |
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The Boomer’s Guide to a Worry-Free Retirement $15.32 Used – The SECRETS Your Broker Never Told You!A seismic shift has taken place in financial planning for people approaching retirement. When that change came along, author Thomas Helbig was more than ready for it. What is the new investment landscape all about? Americans planning for retirement have lost faith in risky, Wall Street-style investments. Meanwhile, new investment tools have come along, developed by the insurance sector of the financial services industry, to replace those high-risk ve |
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The Boomer’s Guide to a Worry-Free Retirement $15.32 Used – The SECRETS Your Broker Never Told You!A seismic shift has taken place in financial planning for people approaching retirement. When that change came along, author Thomas Helbig was more than ready for it. What is the new investment landscape all about? Americans planning for retirement have lost faith in risky, Wall Street-style investments. Meanwhile, new investment tools have come along, developed by the insurance sector of the financial services industry, to replace those high-risk ve |
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The Definitive Guide to HR Communication: Engaging Employees in Benefits, Pay, and Performance $39.99 Two experienced HR communications consultants show how to dramatically improve the effectiveness of every HR message. HR professionals know their programs are pivotal to organizational success, but they also know how difficult it is to communicate those programs effectively. Hampered by legal restrictions, highly complex policies and programs, corporate politics, and old-fashioned notions about business communication, they create communications their audiences simply ignore. It needn’t be that way! Alison Davis and Jane Shannon present simple, powerful principles and techniques every HR professional can use, even those who’ve never been comfortable as writers. Davis and Shannon demonstrate how to treat employees as customers, and use the same strategies, tools, and care your company uses to sell its products or services. The authors help HR professionals understand their customers’ (and executives’) needs and motivations more clearly; package information to promote faster, better decision-making; and measure their effectiveness. They present specific solutions for safely eliminating unnecessary detail and jargon; explaining benefits, pay, and policies; improving recruiting, orientation, and outplacement communications; supporting retirement planning; and improving performance management. |
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The Definitive Guide to HR Communication: Engaging Employees in Benefits, Pay, and Performance $31.99 Two experienced HR communications consultants show how to dramatically improve the effectiveness of every HR message. HR professionals know their programs are pivotal to organizational success, but they also know how difficult it is to communicate those programs effectively. Hampered by legal restrictions, highly complex policies and programs, corporate politics, and old-fashioned notions about business communication, they create communications their audiences simply ignore. It needn’t be that way! Alison Davis and Jane Shannon present simple, powerful principles and techniques every HR professional can use, even those who’ve never been comfortable as writers. Davis and Shannon demonstrate how to treat employees as customers, and use the same strategies, tools, and care your company uses to sell its products or services. The authors help HR professionals understand their customers’ (and executives’) needs and motivations more clearly; package information to promote faster, better decision-making; and measure their effectiveness. They present specific solutions for safely eliminating unnecessary detail and jargon; explaining benefits, pay, and policies; improving recruiting, orientation, and outplacement communications; supporting retirement planning; and improving performance management. |
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The Insurance Sales Agent Career Guide $9.99 The Insurance Sales Agent Career GuideAre you seeking a career as an Insurance Sales Agent?In addition to offering insurance policies, agents increasingly sell mutual funds, annuities, and securities and offer comprehensive financial planning services, including retirement and estate planning services, some designed specifically for the elderly. Agents must obtain a license in the States where they sell. Job opportunities should be best for college graduates who have sales ability, excellent interpersonal skills, and expertise in a wide range of insurance and financial services.In The Insurance Sales Agent Career Guide you’ll discover:* What those in this occupation do and the environment or conditions they work under…* The education, training, qualifications, skills, abilities and experience you will need to work in this field…* Where and who is hiring now for these positions…* The chances for finding work and remaining employed based on demand and other economic considerations…* The average annual pay and the factors that determine how much a person employed in this field may earn, along with any fringe benefits if available…* Plus much more…Included in this guide is a section listing 50 best job hunting, resume writing and interviewing tips.Whether you’re still figuring out what to do for a living or changing careers, you need a guide like this to help you make the right decision. |
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The Retirement Plan Solution $85 An effective answer to today”s retirement planning dilemma Since the 1980s, most employers have moved from defined benefit plans (DB) to defined contribution (DC) plans. The Retirement Plan Solution puts this inevitable transition into a global perspective and discusses what it means for those planning their retirement. This book provides a clear twofold solution to the problems that have popped up with the defined contribution plan. The first solution addresses the accumulation process in which the retiree is making and saving his or her money during the working years. The second solution addresses the decumulation process in which the retiree is spending his or her money during the retirement years. Don Ezra (New York, NY) is Global Director of Investment Strategy for Russell Investments. Bob Collie (Tacoma, WA) is Director of Investment Strategy for Russell Investments. Matthew X. Smith (Tacoma, WA) is Managing Director of Retirement Services for Russell Investments. |
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The Tools and Techniques of Employee Benefit and Retirement Planning $93.86 Used – This book is intended to serve as an easily accessible, up-to-date guide to creative employee benefit and retirement planning for use by financial planners, insurance agents, accountants, attorneys, and other financial services professionals, as well as company managers, personnel departments, and CFP, law, and graduate school students. It covers almost every popular employee business arrangement used in business today. Although special consideration is given to employee benefit arrangeme |
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The Tools and Techniques of Employee Benefit and Retirement Planning $93.81 New – This book is intended to serve as an easily accessible, up-to-date guide to creative employee benefit and retirement planning for use by financial planners, insurance agents, accountants, attorneys, and other financial services professionals, as well as company managers, personnel departments, and CFP, law, and graduate school students. It covers almost every popular employee business arrangement used in business today. Although special consideration is given to employee benefit arrangemen |
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The Tools and Techniques of Employee Benefit and Retirement Planning $0.99 Used – This book is intended to serve as an easily accessible, up-to-date guide to creative employee benefit and retirement planning for use by financial planners, insurance agents, accountants, attorneys, and other financial services professionals, as well as company managers, personnel departments, and CFP, law, and graduate school students. It covers almost every popular employee business arrangement used in business today. Although special consideration is given to employee benefit arrangeme |
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The Tools and Techniques of Employee Benefit and Retirement Planning $16.78 Used – This book is intended to serve as an easily accessible, up-to-date guide to creative employee benefit and retirement planning for use by financial planners, insurance agents, accountants, attorneys, and other financial services professionals, as well as company managers, personnel departments, and CFP, law, and graduate school students. It covers almost every popular employee business arrangement used in business today. Although special consideration is given to employee benefit arrangeme |
