Finance

By Alain Valles, CRMP, MBA, CSA Almost a million people have obtained a reverse mortgage to help achieve their personal and financial goals, and an...

By Alain Valles, CRMP, CSA, MBA For the past 25 years reverse mortgages have allowed hundreds of thousands of homeowners 62 years old or older...

By Alain Vallès, CSA, MS, MBA, Managing Director, Helping Hands Community Partners, Inc. As Managing Director of the self-funded nonprofit charitable mortgage company, Helping Hands...

Even if you’re a set-it-and-forget-it investor, unless you’ve pulled out of stocks altogether it’s likely the stock portion of your 401(k) account has grown significantly in the last few years.

But as many boomers have lost their jobs and faced long-term unemployment in the Great Recession, career change has been difficult.

By David Wilkening, Contributing Writer REGION - Inflation is on the minds of just about everyone these days. But could it get even worse? Is...

By Alain Valles, CRMP, CSA, MS, MBA (Photo Alain Valles, Photo submitted) You are invited to ask the questions. No question is too trivial or...

“It didn’t feel right to be back in until now,” said Richard Dukas, who heads a public relations firm in New York City. “I still don’t want to put all my money in the market, but I believe we’ve come through the worst of it.”

By Alain Valles, CRMP, MBA, CSA A Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) – often called a reverse mortgage - is a federally insured loan program that...

By Alain Valles, CSA, MS, MBA, Managing Director of Helping Hands Community Partners, Inc.   Home sweet home “I love my home.  I’m getting older.  I want...