Jill Schlesinger
Jill Schlesinger, CFP®, is the Editor-at-Large for CBS MoneyWatch.com. She is responsible for video and written content for moneywatch.com and cbsnews.com; appearances on “The CBS Evening News” “The CBS Early Show,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” as well as for CBS owned and operated affiliates; daily radio briefs and interviews for CBS Radio and CBS Radio affiliates nationally; and serves as a regular guest for American Public Media’s “Marketplace”.
Jill hosts a nationally-syndicated radio show, “Jill on Money,” an entertaining, humorous, talk/call-in radio show that helps listeners take control of their financial lives and better understand anything related to money.
Prior to joining MoneyWatch in April, 2009, Jill owned and operated a retail investment advisory firm for 14 years, which she grew from a small start up into one of the largest independent investment advisors in New England, with over $650 million in client assets.
She is a graduate of the Certified Financial Planner Program at the College of Financial Planning and is a Certified Financial Planner™ certificant. A 1987 graduate of Brown University, Jill started her career as an options trader on the Commodities Exchange of New York, where she was one of eight female members on an exchange of 800.
Jill Schlesinger Samples
Stock market highs: Should you buy?
The Dow passes 15,000! Recently, Warren Buffett predicted that stocks will go "far higher" in the long run, so, for those with 10 or 20 years to go before they need their money, investing in a diversified portfolio that includes stocks makes sense.
A great many of us are gambling with our retirements
I get a lot of questions these days about my opinion of the recent PBS episode of Frontline called "The Retirement Gamble." But the documentary goes one step further in pointing a finger directly at the financial services industry.
Protecting yourself from the costs of long-term care
There's no denying it: Most of us are going to need some form of long-term health care during our golden years. Genworth Financial recently released its long-term care Cost of Care Survey for 2013, and the results are sobering.
CFPB takes on financial designation titles
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has honed in on an important question: What do the various "senior designation" titles that financial advisers use to market their services really mean?
What do proposed Social Security changes mean to me?
There's nothing like proposed changes to Social Security limits to get readers of this column going. Well, let's start with a quick refresher on the current system. Full retirement age varies from 65 to 67 depending on the year of your birth.
Index vs. managed funds
"What does your fund manager do?" screamed the headline of the April 8 edition of Barron's. All I could think was, "What, indeed!" Here's the problem: Even if there are some diamonds in the rough, it may not even be worth trying.
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