Women & Wealth Resources
| Learn more about financial issues affecting women on the National Endowment for Financial Education’s site. Click on “Exploring Solutions for Women’s Financial Challenges.” | http://www.nefe.org/tabid/86/ Default.aspx |
| Check your credit report. You are entitled to one free credit report from each of the three credit reporting agencies each year. | http://www.annualcreditreport.com |
| See how much your savings and investments can grow over various time periods and rates of return with the savings calculator at Bankrate.com. | http://www.bankrate.com/brm/cgi-bin/savings.asp |
| Learn more about the various types of insurance on the USAA Educational Foundation website. | http://www.usaaedfoundation.org/ insurance/index.asp |
| See how inflation affects spending power with the inflation calculator provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. | http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl |
| Information about equity-indexed annuities is available on the SEC’s website. | http://www.sec.gov/investor/ pubs/equityidxannuity.htm |
| Learn more about unscrupulous marketing of equity-indexed annuities to seniors by watching the Dateline NBC investigative report titled “Tricks of the Trade”. | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ id/24095230/ |
| Listen to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging hearings. The hearing concerning reverse mortgages was on 12/12/07, and the hearing on senior designations was 9/5/07. | http://aging.senate.gov/hearings.cfm |
| To better understand your Social Security benefits see the publication titled “Social Security: What Every Woman Should Know”. | http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10127.html |
| Information about identity theft, is available on the Federal Trade Commission’s website. | http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/ idtheft/consumers/ about-identity-theft.html |
| For information on choosing a financial planner see the Financial Planning Association’s brochure titled, “How a Financial Planner Can Help You… and How to Choose the Right One”. | http://www.fpaforfinancialplanning.org/ docs/assets/9-15-06Englishhow.pdf |
| More information on choosing a financial planner can be found in the list of publications on the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standard’s website. | http://www.cfp.net/learn/ resources.asp#Publications |
| Check out a broker or registered investment advisor on the SEC’s website. | http://www.sec.gov/investor/ brokers.htm |
