Showing posts with label boomers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boomers. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Don’t let financial jargon throw you off your game

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Investing is a scary prospect, and most of us don’t invest in the stock market or if we do, we invest poorly. Market upturns, and market dow...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Retirement Index (France)

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France loses five places in this year’s Global Retirement Index, pushing it to the 15th place. With an increase in tax pressures and old...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Generation Squeeze

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When we as a Board, were asked for some names to speak at the SHARE Family Services Annual General Meeting, someone suggested  Paul Kersha...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Suspended Coffee

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What a great idea and one that more of us should consider.  Thanks to Norm at Northern Insights for the post. From the forum at  Urba...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

10,000 Boomers turning 65 every day for the next 19 years

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Governments are worried, because they didn't do any future planning so they are continuing to attack Boomers and their younger siblings...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Dealing with control issues

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As we get older we are faced with aging friends, relatives, and parents that may cause us some frustration and grief. One thing to think a...
Friday, October 5, 2012

Baby Boomer Handouts Hamper Saving

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The following was shared by  Lisa Ann in Active Aging: Baby Boomerfs living life to the Max on Linkedin   Ameriprise Financial in 2007 su...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Choosing Your Friend

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This is from a post by  Patrick Mathieu   whose work I admire and read. (Today, I want to ask you lots of introspective questions and giv...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Let the Band play on.

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A friend of mine died suddenly the other day with his family while on holiday in Texas. Bob and I first worked together back in the 70’s w...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Interesting perspectives on those over 65

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The following was written by Jennie L. Phipps  U.S. Census Bureau sent out a host of facts and figures about people age 65 and older. H...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Women plan for retirement differently than men

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The following was written by Jennie L. Phipps and posted at Bankrate.com on Sunday, January 29, 2012 and I thought it was interesting beca...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

More OAS debate

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The Illusory Savings of Hiking the Age of Eligibility for OAS , Posted by Andrew Jackson on March 27th, 2012 Former Assistant Chief Sta...
Friday, March 30, 2012

A peanut joke for my grandson and new names for Boomers

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 Some Canadian humour for my Australian Grandson.  Two peanuts were walking down the street. One was asalted. On  a slightly differen...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

More on what drives the boomers

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As am early boomer, I have some ideas on what drives us, I have talked about this before and believe that as we understand the boomers we w...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Pension envy grows as boomers retire

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I found this article By Jonathan Chevreau, Wealthy Boomer; Financial Post October 29, 2011, interesting. There were several signs th...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

older really does make you wiser.

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As we  move into 2012 there is finally proof that older is not only better, but we are wiser as well. This article posted in the Mailonline...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Memory loss? Try walking

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As we age, we sometimes forget names, this could be part of a neurological condition called mild cognitive impairment,  which manifests itse...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Social Media

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Many of us use social media and use it wisely, however there are some who don't.   For those of us who feel that we want to help those w...
Monday, October 3, 2011

Boomers/Seniors and the Net

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Eric Zorn in his blog, Change of Subject , of Sept 3, refers to Aylin Zafars article where she discusses the increasing use of Social Media....