 |
|
Work & Finance
The Best Life Guide to Choosing a Financial Advisor
The market’s mood swings are getting worse, your expenses keep going up, and your retirement plan is DIY. Where can you find advice you can trust? Here’s how to pluck an expert from a crowd of empty suits.
You sweat blood to get your account statement to six figures, and your family is counting on you to continue to build that wealth. To find a planner who can help, start by getting names from friends and colleagues and checking lists such as Barron’s Top 100 independent financial advisors. Once you have a list, here are the criteria you should use to narrow it down.
Read MoreThe Best is Yet to Come
7 embarrassing traps to avoid in your quest for immeasurable happiness
I was sitting in the first-class cabin on the way from here to there the other day. The peanuts were hot. The air was marginal, but we don’t really need all that much air to operate at our age these days, do we? We’re getting up there. We tire more easily. We tend to nap on planes when before we were up watching those in-flight films. We’ve just about won this rat race, and now’s our chance to settle back in the comfort of what we’ve achieved, satisfied that we’ve done our jobs well and earned that little patch of heaven reserved for those who have spent their time on this earth to best advantage.
Read MoreSmart Mortgage Moves
Five tips for getting the best loans
Last year, banks foreclosed on nearly 1.3 million properties. What does that mean to you? Letting a bank's loan officer tell you what kind of mortgage you should get is like letting Lindsay Lohan tell you where to hide the Grey Goose. The agenda, in other words, isn't necessarily plotted in your favor. Be smart and keep these guidelines on hand.
Read MoreRead to Lead
The founder of a $100-million-a-year brand shares the books that have made him a better businessman
If there's one real secret to my success, it's this: I love books. I'm the CEO and founder of Icebreaker, an outdoor-apparel company based in New Zealand. We make all of our clothing out of pure merino wool. In the past 14 years, I've managed to spin this amazing natural fiber—merino is much finer and lighter than other wool, and it doesn't itch—into a brand sold in 30 countries. I've amassed so many books in that time that I had to build a home library to shelve them. I'm always learning because I'm always reading—about nature, innovation, spirituality, design, leadership, travel, and history.
Read MoreDead-End Job
How your career is killing you
Office professionals take 850,930 sick days a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While some of those days might be mental-health days or plain old playing hooky, some illnesses plague the office worker. Here are a few of the diseases you might be at risk for and how to avoid them.
Read More
