Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Tom Mann
Living longer: “An individual who reaches age 65 has a life expectancy of age 85. What are the chances he or she will live beyond that age?” 50%!!!
Longevity: based on actuarial tables, a woman who makes it to age 60 has an average life expectancy of 23 years. But that doesn’t mean this woman is [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Tom Mann
Of the 57 million American women 45 and up, nearly half—25 million—are unmarried (outnumbering entire populations of countries such as North Korea, Taiwan, and Australia). There are several reasons for this: American women marry later, their divorce rate is high, and, not to put too fine a point on it, those who are married are [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Tom Mann
About 15% of the 45–64 age group do not have health insurance (that’s more than 100,000 individuals), and yet only 1% of those aged 65+ (40,000) do not have health insurance.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, www.census.gov
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Dan Rexford
Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to work with five struggling companies and to review the files of a dozen others. These companies are in serious financial distress and there are about 10 recurring pitfalls that all good mature market experts need to avoid.
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