by Michael Lecours | Jun 8, 2017 | Finding Confidence, Investment Behavior, Investment Strategies, Personal Development, Retirement, Saving
Defining one’s goals isn’t easy for some people. Trying to envision what your life will look like at some point in the future can be difficult. There are so many emotional and financial variables and so many unknowns in life that it can leave you feeling...
by Michael Lecours | May 19, 2017 | Retirement, Rule of Thumb, Saving, Uncategorized
Saving just a little bit extra each year can have a profound impact over the long term. Investor’s Business Daily ran some pretty interesting numbers showing the impact on one’s retirement if an extra $20 is saved every week. Here is some of the findings...
by Michael Lecours | Mar 30, 2017 | Retirement
Florida may not be the ideal location for retirement according to some new research from Bankrate. Based on tax rates, crime states, weather and health care, Bankrate has ranked all fifty states to find the best ones for retirees. Florida ranks 17th! Connecticut comes...
by Michael Lecours | Mar 10, 2017 | Retirement
Ask a 20 or 30 something about their vision of retirement and they often shrug. They can barely make ends meet now – how can they try to envision themselves in 40 years? Conventional wisdom suggests that they should save as much as they can. If they save enough,...
by Michael Lecours | Jan 19, 2017 | Retirement
US News recently made several good points in the following article: When You Do Everything Right But Your Retirement Plans Go Wrong I would add that a financial plan should be reviewed on a regular basis regardless of what’s occurring in the market. The analogy we...
by Michael Lecours | Jan 18, 2017 | Finding Confidence, Investment Behavior, Personal Development, Retirement, Rule of Thumb, Saving
The following article examines five young people and their financial plan (more like their lack of planning). They are then offered some preliminary advice about how to improve their situation. Unfortunately, in every case I found the advice to be overly...
