Robin Starr, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional and co-founder of Athena Wealth Strategies, has more than eight years of experience in financial services. She graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California, with a degree in Economics and then began several years of moving between the East and West coasts. A native of Connecticut, Robin moved East after college, living in Connecticut and then New York City, where she worked in the Private Asset Management Division of Neuberger Berman. In 2008, she moved to California and joined Lincoln Financial Advisors. In 2014, while remaining with Lincoln, she returned to the East Coast after her husband became a research associate at the Brookings Institution. Although she now works out of Washington, D.C., she is in California frequently and considers herself very much part Californian, part East Coaster.
If you are getting close to retirement age you may have heard of social security claiming strategies such as “file and suspend” or a “restricted application.” You may have also seen in the news that the November 2015 bipartisan budget deal made some changes to the social security system. While none of these changes will affect benefits that have already been claimed, those who are not yet retired may see a change in how they are able to receive benefits due to recent changes made by Congress. [Read complete article.]
While current obligations and financial emergencies may make it hard to prioritize savings at certain points in our lives, many people put off saving for retirement (or any other need) not because they cannot afford it, but because they are overwhelmed with the options and terminology. Putting off saving can have compounding effects, not only because it’s easy for days to become weeks, then years and even decades, but because.... [Read complete article.]
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