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Your Financial Life Taking Off

Originally published as 'Financial Beginnings - Taking Off' on 8/9/2010 at the Financial Planning Association's All Things Financial...

Building Your Financial Foundation: Watch Out for Money Complacency

Originally published 7/27/2010 at the Financial Planning Association's All Things Financial Planning blog Robert Schmansky, CFP(r) This...

WSJ - When Times Get Tough, Talk It Out

Below is excerpted from a great piece by Ruth Mantell on the importance of communication during a financial crisis. Head to the Wall...

Unsure of What to Do Next? Know Where You Stand in Your Financial Life Cycle

Originally published 7/12/2010 at the Financial Planning Association's All Things Financial Planning Blog Robert Schmansky, CFP(r) Market...

Mortgage Pay-off the Wrong Way

With the recent market volatility and low interest rate environment, paying off the mortgage seems like a prudent investment choice to...

Room for Optimism

Originally published 6/29/2010 at the Financial Planning Association(r)'s All Things Financial Planning Blog Robert Schmansky, CFP(r) As...

Two Strategies to Deal with the Unknown of when Rates will Rise

Despite collective wisdom that historically low rates will eventually rise, there no way of telling when. Because of low returns, we see...

Have a Spouse? Don't Invest in a Variable Annuity

This is a series of articles I've labeled 'Variable Annuities are Retirement Snake Oil' on why today’s deferred annuities are not...

Investment Moves for a Volatile Market

Originally published 6/14/2010 at the Financial Planning Association's All Things Financial Planning blog Robert Schmansky, CFP(r) With...

Dow Jones Adviser-Reworking a Plan that Doesn't Work

For a piece in Dow Jones Adviser I discussed that in some situations keeping things simple makes sense financially: This simpler...