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How You Can Save 1000s of Dollars on Term Life Insurance Renewals What is a renewal anyway? When you buy a term life insurance policy, it has a fixed cost  for a fixed period of time. For example, 10 year term insurance means the monthly payment (called “premium” in insurance lingo) stays the same each […]

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Making Money Behave! There’s a saying that “You can’t improve, what you don’t measure”. Before setting up a budget or deciding what spending areas to change, you need to get an accurate picture where your money goes. Forget pen and paper, that’s too time consuming and messy. I recommended either Intuit’s Quicken, Microsoft’s Money or […]

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Understand Travel Insurance Before You Buy CBC’s Marketplace host, Erica Johnson, had published an article about a couple who had a health issue while traveling and was subsequently denied a claim based upon filling out the travel insurance questionnaire  incorrectly. If you don’t understand what you are filling out,  you should get the answers before completing the rest of the […]

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Family Meetings Simplify Estate Planning This author recommends ” Family Meetings Simplify Estate Planning” as an easier way to handle estate planning.  Many people ask, “How do I talk to my parents about estate planning and encourage them to take the necessary steps?” This book shows them how to hold a family meeting and how to […]

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How to Calculate Your Net Worth One of the most important financial planning steps you can do each year is to complete a Net Worth Statement. Your Net Worth is simply a snapshot of the difference between what you own (your assets) versus what you owe (your liabilities). A good time to update your Net […]

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