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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulators recently issued their report warning of the “free lunch” seminars regularly targeting seniors. The report was based on a year-long examination conducted by the SEC, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and state securities regulators.
Among the findings,

100% of the “seminars” were instead sales presentations.

Question: My long-time friend’s dad died earlier this year. A widower, Jack had a valuable home and a few bank accounts. He didn’t use a lawyer, and he quietly made just one of his four adult children the joint tenant on his home and all accounts. She’s inheriting everything. His children are now fighting bitterly [...]

The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet it ranks poorly on nearly every measure of health status. How can this be? What explains this apparent paradox?
Dr. Steven A. Schroeder says that the two-part answer is deceptively simple

On September 11, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned mortgage brokers and lenders, and media outlets that carry their advertisements for home mortgages, that some of the advertising claims currently appearing in Web sites, newspapers, magazines, direct mail, and unsolicited e-mail and faxes may violate federal law.
“Many mortgage advertisers are making potentially deceptive claims about [...]