Insurance agents suggest to visit your primary care physician before shopping for a life insurance policy. All standard forms of life insurance require a medical exam, so it is important to make sure that any issues you had and resolved are updated properly. For example, if you have been a smoker or overweight and changed your…

For many retirees, the idea of giving up their family home is a tough proposition to accept. But according to Steven Sass, a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, that’s exactly what’s needed for many individuals to afford retirement. "People have a serious behavioral resistance to touching their savings or home…