Archive for February 2018
Retirement Conversations: What Do You Do?
Retirement Conversation: What Do You Do? We spend a lifetime working, building a career, raising a family, etc. Then we retire, and some unsuspecting acquaintance asks, “What do you do?” It’s a whole new ballgame now. This can be a difficult question for new retirees. Our gut instinct is to identify ourselves by our occupations…
Read MoreStudy Proves Aging a One-Way Process
Study Proves Aging is a One-Way Process As you may have already suspected, aging is not a reversible process. This was confirmed in a new study titled “Intercellular Competition and Inevitability of Multicellular Aging,” in which researchers concluded it’s impossible to halt the aging process in multi-cellular organisms like humans.1 Scientists have found a cellular…
Read MoreExclusive vs. Inclusive Investing
Exclusive vs. Inclusive Investing There are many different approaches to investing in the stock market, but most fall under two categories: exclusive and inclusive. Exclusive means conducting thorough research on prospective companies and investing in a portfolio of select, thoroughly vetted securities. One of the advantages of this approach is that if an investor’s research pans…
Read MoreInnovation Around the World
Innovation Around the World Digital music service Spotify and the popular electronic games Minecraft and Candy Crush Saga all originated in Sweden. The country is home to some of the world’s largest technology companies and is second only to Silicon Valley for tech giants.1 Sweden provides free health care, free higher education and outstanding infrastructure…
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