How I Prepare for Quarterly Account Reviews
By Mike PattonWhat do farmers and advisors have in common? They both plant and they both harvest. In the financial advisory business, we plant seeds (market our services)...
September 18, 2009
Medicare Advantage plans have advantage over FFS18% -- Percent fewer days Medicare Advantage plan holders spent in hospital compared to seniors in fee-for-service Medicare. 27% -- Percent fewer emergency room visits among seniors with Medicare Advantage. 42% -- Perce
September 18, 2009
No boomer-driven asset bustSome have argued that baby boomers' retirement poses a threat to working Americans' savings. The value of workers' saved assets, they say, could drop once...
September 18, 2009
Boomers rack up $59 billion in hospital costsIn 2007, baby boomers (adults age 55-64) had more than 4.7 million hospital stays totaling $59 billion, or 16 percent of total hospital costs in...
September 18, 2009
New resource to help renters in "boomer capital"Denver baby boomers looking for new housing will soon be able to find a targeted magazine to help them in their search. For Rent Media...
September 17, 2009
Mathas To Address Executive ConferenceSummit Business Media, the company that owns National Underwriter Life & Health, will hold the 20th Annual Executive Conference for the Life Insurance Industry Nov. 5-6 in New York.
September 17, 2009
The very definition of sophomoricA business school professor I had used to marvel at the amount of opinions held with little or no analysis to back them up. Pretty...
September 17, 2009
Confirmed: Boomer sell-off won't crash economyMore confirmation that retiring baby boomers will not (repeat, will not) cause a drag on the economy. One question debated over and over is whether...
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