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What Financial Advisors Do

There’s a common misconception that financial advisors spend all their time studying investments. While investment planning is an integral part of the job, it’s often not the central part of what a financial advisor does.

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5 Tips for Managing an Employee Handbook

For most businesses, an employee handbook is just another requirement from HR. Often, it can be a forgotten book of policies rarely referenced by the company. However, it can be so much more for your business. Karen Young, President of HR Resolutions in Harrisburg shares 5 important tips for managing an employee handbook.

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5 Common Marketing Mistakes that Business Owners Make

When you consider all of the possible combinations of marketing activities, there are thousands of ways to get the word out about your business. But which ones are the right ones – and which ones should you avoid? In this, our first installment of the Business Enhancement Series, Maureen Williams of Monarch Media Solutions talks

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Sonya Ranker Featured in US News

From money.usnews.com: “When she came to Sonya Ranker, a certified divorce financial analyst and certified financial planner at Questmont Strategic Wealth Advisors, Cathy broke down crying in the middle of their meeting. Like so many women going through major life transitions, she struggled to come to grips with the new turn her life had taken.”

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Questmont Quoted in US News and World Report

From money.usnews.com: There’s a common misconception that financial advisors spend all of their time studying investments. While investment planning is an integral part of the job, it’s often not the central part of an advisor’s daily duties. Sonya Ranker, a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and Certified Financial Planner at Questmont Strategic Wealth Advisors, estimates 30

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Financial Fraudsters Preying on Boomers & Elders

Financially Secure Women Need to be Especially Careful If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If you are in or near retirement, it is a safe bet that you would like more yield from your investments rather than less. That truth sometimes leads liars, scammers, and fraudsters to pitch any number

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What Women Shouldn’t Retire Without

A Practical Financial Checklist for the Future When our parents retired, living to 75 amounted to a nice long life, and Social Security was often supplemented by a pension. The Social Security Administration estimates that today’s average 65-year-old female will live to age 86.6. Given these projections, it appears that a retirement of 20 years

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A Retirement Gender Gap

Why a middle-class woman may end up less ready to retire than a middle-class man. What is the retirement outlook for the average fifty-something working woman? As a generalization, less sunny than that of a man in her age group.

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Bag Lady Syndrome

You must avoid it. Think about tomorrow, not just today. No woman wants to end up a “bag lady” – impoverished, out of options, left to fend for herself on the streets. Only a tiny percentage of women from affluent households will experience this retirement nightmare, but that does not mean the risk should be

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