WIFE Blog

Don’t Overlook Your Spouse’s Retirement Plan During a Divorce – Understanding the QDRO

Divorces are complicated, and it’s easy to focus on making sure you get a piece of big assets, like the house, your investment accounts, and the vehicles. Don’t overlook the retirement accounts! Retirement accounts can represent a huge asset, but many spouses don’t think about them, especially if retirement is 10 or 20 years away.

Don’t Overlook Your Spouse’s Retirement Plan During a Divorce – Understanding the QDRO Read More »

Five Reasons Millennials Are Struggling to Get Ahead

It’s Not the Avocado Toast Hating on the millennial generation has become a favorite pastime of many social commentators. We are vain. We are delicate little snowflakes. We want to save the world but are too busy taking selfies. We would rather stuff ourselves with insanely expensive avocado toast than actually save for retirement. Now,

Five Reasons Millennials Are Struggling to Get Ahead Read More »

Returning to the Workforce? It Might Be Time to Consider an Adult Internship.

Getting a job is hard, especially if you happen to have a ten-year gap in your resume and skills rustier than a bike left out all winter. Yet, this is the reality that many women in our country face when they are ready to rejoin the workforce after leaving their careers to raise a family

Returning to the Workforce? It Might Be Time to Consider an Adult Internship. Read More »

Who’s Paying For College? Part Two: The Case for Paying for Your Child’s College Costs

Parents, no doubt that if you had Bill Gates’s money you wouldn’t think twice about paying for your child’s college costs. You might not even mind if your child announces that she wants to double major in philosophy and the history of dance. If you aren’t one of the roughly 1,800 billionaires in the world,

Who’s Paying For College? Part Two: The Case for Paying for Your Child’s College Costs Read More »

Southern NH Money Club offers financial ‘support’ for women

By BARBARA TAORMINA New Hampshire Union Leader Correspondent The Southern NH Money Club is part of a growing group of clubs throughout the country inspired by the Women’s Institute for Financial Education, WIFE.org, the oldest existing non-profit organization dedicated to financial education for women. Mary Murphy has been making financial management decisions since she was a

Southern NH Money Club offers financial ‘support’ for women Read More »

Planners Get Cash to Take Second Saturday Divorce Workshop National

By Ann Marsh Financial Planning Magazine A 25-year-old divorce workshop founded and run by two planners in San Diego has received funding from a former attendee to enhance its website, with an eye to going national. “We recognize not everyone can get to a workshop,” says Elizabeth Bryan, outreach coordinator for the Second Saturday workshops,

Planners Get Cash to Take Second Saturday Divorce Workshop National Read More »

Attracting Women Clients: First, Identify Their R.E.A.L. Needs

WIFE.org co-founders Candace Bahr, CEA, CDFA and Ginita Wall discuss the importance of women’s R.E.A.L. needs in a recent article featured in Horsesmouth. Excerpt: Women need financial advisors, and advisors need clients. Women hold more than half the wealth in this country and are projected to hold up to 63% by 2020. Because women have

Attracting Women Clients: First, Identify Their R.E.A.L. Needs Read More »

What is Your Greatest Risk?

My grandmother and my mother-in-law each lived to age 96. Many of us know women who lived to age 100 or later.  A lot of women are afraid of a stock market decline, but because we are living longer than ever before, there’s actually something that could be more devastating to your hard earned wealth—the

What is Your Greatest Risk? Read More »

PayOff.com

Looking for a new approach to having fun with your finances? Try Payoff.com, a new site that uses your dreams to inspire sound money management—with a little help from your friends. Payoff is free, and it helps you get your friends involved as a financial support system, so you are more likely to reach your

PayOff.com Read More »

Scroll to Top