literacy

Can Financial Education & Coaching Improve Your Health?

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Can financial education/coaching break the financial stress, declining health cycle? In a previous article, I outlined three vicious cycles affecting financial stress, physical and mental health. They are vicious because, once financial stress occurs, the health impacts can lead to yet more stress, which can further impair health, causing additional financial stress as the cycle begins … Read more

The Myth of Financial Literacy Education

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The quantity, complexity and importance of the financial decisions we have to make keeps increasing. For example, as traditional defined-benefit pension plans going extinct, people increasingly have to manage their own retirement plans. There are more investment choices than ever: structured CDs, marketplace lending, crowdfunded start-ups not to mention thousands of ETFs and mutual funds. … Read more