Congratulations, you and your child made it through the first year of college! Now, you and your child have another first, coming home for the summer. This is an exciting time in life for your family, one that should be celebrated and enjoyed. Here are some tips to make the experience enjoyable for you and your college student.
Here at SFG, we support an ongoing educational culture. One of the ways we do this is holding an employee book club meeting several times per year to share about nonfiction books we’ve read. Additionally, we keep a library of books in our conference room for our clients and guests. These books all relate to one of our Four Capitals — Financial, Physical, Intellectual, and Psychological — and offer insight into the Four Capitals approach we are so committed to. Here is a current list of our SFG Library books related to Psychological Capital.
Read some tips on how to have a great vacation with your grandchildren.
When you return home from a great vacation, the last thing you want to deal with is being a victim of a break-in. You can thwart off most attacks on your house. Here are seven ways to help protect your home while you’re exploring the world this summer.
In the past few years, Tufts’ Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging released updated dietary guidelines for older adults. They note that, after age 50, caloric needs decrease to 2,000 for men and 1,600 for women. However, vitamin and mineral needs actually increase or stay the same. It may be challenging to keep up your nutrients on limited calories, so MyPlate for Older Adults created a loose template to help adults over 50 eat the necessary foods to achieve this goal.
As we have discussed in our other blog topics focused on China, the GDP numbers, total outstanding debt, and other various statistics reported by their government have been questioned and scrutinized over the years. While most analysts put China’s debt/GDP near 250%, The Institute of International Finance (IIF) actually believes that China’s debt load was possibly as high as 300% in 2017. Today, we expect that to be much higher.