NASAA 2009 “TOP TEN INVESTOR TRAPS” -- (POSTED 8-25-09)

by Rick Shaffer 25. August 2009 09:38
   While they’re always prevalent, get rich quick and other inappropriate/highly risky investments tend to become more prevalent during difficult financial times such as those we’re experiencing today.  Concurrently, investors (big and small) need to be even more... [More]

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MAXIMIZING YOUR HOME’S SELLING PRICE -- (POSTED 8-10-09)

by Rick Shaffer 10. August 2009 12:55
    The August real estate market is, per usual, very very slow.  But, hopefully, it will (as it usually does) pick after summer and summer vacations are over.  So, for those of you who have been trying to sell your home but haven’t done so so far, or who are think... [More]

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POST-9/11 GI BILL -- (POSTED 8-7-09)

by Rick Shaffer 7. August 2009 14:41
   While we here on “The Money Show” are not especially great fans of government spending – especially the way the government has been spending money lately – there are (usually) exceptions to every rule.  One such exception which we greatly applaud is the ... [More]

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Rick Shaffer brings “The Money Show” to 96.9 WTKK, Boston's Talk Evolution each Saturday Afternoon from 1PM - 4PM. Then on Sunday from 9AM – NOON, Rick Shaffer and Susan Kaplan reprise the Money Show where they discuss everything from finance and investment to real estate and law.

Shaffer, an attorney with the law firm of Andrews & Updegraph and a graduate of both Boston College and Northeastern University School of Law, has hosted “The Money Show” since 1991. He has also been a regular guest and contributing financial expert on various programs on New England Cable News, WLVI-TV and other local television stations, and has been a financial, real estate and business writer for the Middlesex News, the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe and S&P Personal Wealth.

Susan Kaplan is a Certified Financial Planner and is the president of Kaplan Financial Services in Wellesley. For the past four years, Worth Magazine has named Kaplan one of the top 200 financial planners in the country and she has been featured in Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street and Mutual Fund publications.

In 2006, Barron’s named Susan as one of the top 100 Women Financial Advisors in the country. Susan has also been named by Boston Magazine as one of the top 10 financial advisors in Boston (March 2006) and inducted into the 2003 Advisor Hall of Fame by Research Magazine. Susan has been chosen by Worth Magazine as one of the top 100 financial planners in the country for six years. She has been chosen by Medical Economics in the past five consecutive years as one of the best 100 financial advisors for doctors.

Susan has been featured in Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street and Mutual Fund publications as well as numerous other financial journals. She has appeared on Bloomberg News, CNBC, WGBH, and Channels 4, 5, and 7. She has been asked to speak on investments at several major national meetings and has also been chosen to do Money Makeovers for the Boston Globe. She was a presenter at the CNBC / Fidelity Money Show for two years in a row. She co-hosts the radio show, The Money Show, on WTKK – 96.9 FM every Sunday morning.

 

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