Finance

Kennedy’s original idea was to give families some financial breathing room. Most families cannot afford to hire a home health aide for a frail elder, let alone pay nursing home bills. Care is usually provided by family members, often a spouse who may also have health problems.

Need money? - Know your options!  By Alain Valles, MBA, MS Real Estate is Good News Why buy?  It’s simple – you’ll have a better chance of...

The days of being able to count on averaging 10 percent annual returns from the stock market are over. So, it is important for retirees to know just how much they can take out of their portfolios every year without drawing them down too fast.

By Alain Vallès, CSA, MS, MBA, Managing Director Helping Hands Community Partners, Inc. 781-724-6221/av@hhcp.org   Many of us are currently facing very tough economic times and uncertainty.  And...

By Alain Valles With recent improvements made by the federal government to the reverse mortgage program, the cost of most reverse mortgages have dropped by...

By Alain Valles, CSA, MS, MBA, Managing Director, Helping Hands Community Partners Change is always the constant Over the past 30 years hundreds of thousands of...

By Alain Valles, CRMP Everyone has heard the words “reverse mortgage.” But few people really know how one works. However, most of us know the challenge,...

By Alain Valles, CRMP, MBA, CSA Managing Director Helping Hands Community Partners, Inc. How will you pay for retirement? If you are over 61-years-old, own a home...

Money managers say take a breath — downturns could offer opportunities to strengthen your retirement savings for the long run.

Paul Skidmore’s office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18-month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he filed for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned.