Credit Freezes vs. Alerts: My Evolving View
Early in my financial planning career, a few of my clients had negative experiences that impacted my recommendations for years. I've recently changed my mind about controlling credit reporting access.
Early in my financial planning career, a few of my clients had negative experiences that impacted my recommendations for years. I've recently changed my mind about controlling credit reporting access.
Soon after the invention of email came the invention of scam emails. Over the years, these emails have progressed way beyond the classic Nigerian Prince scam. Unfortunately, the coronavirus has opened the window to a host of new schemes. I share some tips to help keep your personal information personal.
Nobody likes it when the stock markets decline. This week we see two economic superpowers “saber-rattling” about who will impose the largest tariff. Because threatened or imposed tariffs have real long-term consequences, the global stock markets have declined relatively sharply. I take advantage of these rough times to run “lifeboat drills.”
I’m very excited about the current revolution I’m seeing in the world of insurance advice. In the last few years, no-commission life insurance options have become more widely available, and that trend looks to be accelerating. Unfortunately, most folks are getting their life insurance advice the old-fashioned way.
A massive data breach at Equifax has compromised over 140 million people's personal information. But this was not one of those data breaches that everyone is accustomed to hearing about – this one is much worse.