by Manisha Thakor | May 19, 2011 | All Posts, Invest, Protect, Save
What’s Your Retirement Plan? A recent study by Transamerica’s Center for Retirement Studies concludes that for a large portion of folks, “never retiring” is their plan A. Alas, a significant percentage of the eager-to-keep-working population is...
by Manisha Thakor | May 9, 2011 | All Posts, Earn, Invest, Reflect, Save
When you hear that women earn less than men… do your eyes glaze over? If you are like me, you’ve heard the statistics so often they almost don’t register: Women earn $0.77 on the male dollar, spend an average of 11.5 fewer years than men in the paid...
by Manisha Thakor | May 5, 2011 | All Posts, Earn, Invest, Save, Spend
If you could rewind your life to graduation from high school or college, what would you have done differently with your money? Confession: I’m a financial voyeur. For as long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated by the unique relationships people (and...
by Manisha Thakor | Apr 25, 2011 | All Posts, Book Review, Earn, Reflect, Save, Spend
What would happen if you pared your life down to the essentials? It’s been a while since my last blog post. Truth be told, I’ve been frozen like a deer in headlights. It felt like everything there was to say about personal finance had already been...
by Manisha Thakor | Mar 8, 2011 | All Posts, Earn, Invest, Protect, Reflect
How Are American Women Doing? March 8th is International Women’s Day. Celebrated around the globe, each year there is a different focus. For 2011, “Equal access to education, Training and science and technology, Pathway to decent work for...
by Manisha Thakor | Mar 1, 2011 | All Posts
Have you ever wondered what it’s like being a woman working on Wall Street? In 2009, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof eloquently pointed out that our economy might be in a very different place had it been Lehman Sisters and Brothers rather...
by Manisha Thakor | Feb 23, 2011 | All Posts, Invest, Protect
“Last year I invested in a bond fund and now I’ve lost money. What happened? I thought bonds were supposed to be safe investments!” Recently several people have asked me this same question. Given the turbulent economic times we’re...
by Manisha Thakor | Feb 16, 2011 | All Posts, Protect, Save
Do you ever worry about ending up old and poor? For many women, becoming the proverbial “bag lady under the bridge” is one of their worst nightmares. Myself included. I literally sit down with my husband and our financial planner twice a year to re-confirm...
by Manisha Thakor | Feb 8, 2011 | All Posts, Invest, Save
If you could reduce your taxes in three ways with one simple tactic, would you pass it up? Believe it or not, that’s exactly what many hard-working Americans are unknowingly doing. Only 12% of Americans who reported an annual household income of less than...
by Manisha Thakor | Feb 1, 2011 | All Posts, Book Review, Earn, Give, Spend
Do your children think you are a walking ATM? If you are tired of “must-have-that-toy-right-now” tantrums as you walk down the aisles of Target or Toys “R” Us, go straight to your nearest bookstore and buy Alisa T. Weinstein’s new book, Earn It,...
