Word: planners
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...Life planners, qualified ones at least, operate on a set of assumptions different from those of traditional number crunchers. Life planners believe that you need to do some soul-cleansing, trudge through the muck of self-examination, before you can build a money plan that will guide you through an emotionally and materially secure second half. So put down the calculator for a moment, they suggest, and start with some tender inquiries into why you're not getting your financial house in order. Could it be, say, that your shopaholism stems from a lack of, well, confidence? That you need...
...Again the doctor explains that you have a serious illness. But this time the doctor says, 'You have only 24 hours to live.' What did you miss? Who did you not get to be? What did you not get to do?" The room was silent. After a while, each planner jotted down a phrase...
...science and the Monrad professor in the social sciences. The wedding was the second for both Summers and New. The bridegroom is the son of Anita A. and Robert Summers, former economics professors at the University of Pennsylvania. The bride is the daughter of Joan New, a party planner, and Ronald New, a former physicist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The wedding was featured yesterday in The New York Times’ vaunted “Weddings & Celebrations” column. —Staff writer Zachary M. Seward can be reached at seward@fas.harvard.edu...
...more to this unusual fund company than congenital contrarianism. Brokers and clients prize its funds because over long periods they deliver steady gains--lagging in hot markets but shining in tougher times. "I've been putting clients in their funds for 15 years," says Larry Ginsburg, a financial planner in Oakland, Calif. In the downturn of 2001-02, American Funds' Investment Co. of America ($78 billion) fell just 9.7% a year as the market dropped 17.2% a year. Since then, the fund has risen 14% a year, just a shade behind the market's 14.8% annual return. Growth Fund...
Five University officials clustered by the door to the new Harvard in Allston display room in the Holyoke Center. It was past 4 p.m. last Thursday, and still no students had arrived for a brainstorming session organized for the Undergraduate Council (UC) by Allston planners. “A real undergraduate?” Graduate School of Design professor Alex Krieger asked hopefully as a student entered the room. Krieger, a professor in practice of urban design, is co-founder of Chan Krieger & Associates, the firm charged with developing a program for the non-academic components of Harvard?...