Predicting the Economic Recovery
How Would Life Change – Even if Prescience Possible? By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA [www.clunet.edu/cif] All medical professionals and ME-P readers should know that there’s about a 50% chance that someone...
View ArticleUnderstanding the New “Mixed” Economy
Musings of an Informed Thought-Leader By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA Brief Excerpt The recent debacle in the financial markets has opened up a plethora of issues that require serious attention from all...
View ArticleDr. Somnath Basu on Investing
Writes for the Medical Executive-Post By Ann Miller; RN, MHA [Executive-Director] Dr. Somnath Basu is no stranger to the ME-P, or the financial planning community. He is a Professor of Finance at...
View ArticleDoctors – Are You Ready to Retire?
Moneywise? By Somnath Basu; PhD, MBA For those of us between the ages of 45 to 54, the thought of retirement should be popping up a few times these days. And, for doctors between ages 55 and 64, the...
View ArticleThe ME-P as Provocateur
On Publishing Information and Entertainment By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA [Publisher-in-Chief] As avid blogger Darrell K. Pruitt DDS recently noted, this past quarter brought in a large number of...
View ArticleInsuring the Investment Portfolio
A Multi-Strategic Discussion By Ann Miller RN, MHA Since the market crash, portfolio insurance and program trading are not as popular as they were in the mid-1980s. In this essay, Dr. Somnath Basu...
View ArticleModern Retirement Planning for Physicians
The “AgeBander” Approach Presents a More Accurate Portrayal By Somnath Basu, PhD, MBA A convergence of mega-trends will forever change the face of retirement planning and raise its importance in the...
View ArticleOf Wants, Needs, Economic Sustainability and Even Healthcare Reform
A Social Domestic Healthcare Initiative? By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA [www.clunet.edu/cif] [Director California Institute of Finance] Necessities, conveniences and luxuries are an articulation of the...
View ArticleThe Economics of Stock Market Fear for Physicians
Panic Control and the Possibility of Severe Financial Degradation By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA [www.clunet.edu/cif] [Director California Institute of Finance] An experiential learning of mammoth...
View ArticlePreparing Physicians for Financial Emergencies
Domestic Personal Savings Rate Increasing? By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA [www.clunet.edu/cif] [Director California Institute of Finance] There is a heartening change that we are observing today, an event...
View ArticleCurrent Retirement Investment Options for Physicians
Understanding Build America Bonds By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA [www.clunet.edu/cif] [Director California Institute of Finance] There is heartening news for those of us in retirement or approaching it....
View ArticleA New Model for Planing Physician Retirement Needs
Understanding Age Banding By Ann Miller RN, MHA [Executive Director] From time to time, our readers send in e-books, files or e-chapters, pamphlets or other material they have created for client,...
View ArticleCongratulations Somnath Basu PhD
ME-P Thought-Leader and 2010 USDLA Award Winner [Excellence in Distance Learning Teaching Award] By Ann Miller RN, MHA [Executive-Director] The United States Distance Learning Association, the...
View ArticleThe “Life Cycle Investment Hypothesis”
Physicians Returning to Zero? By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA How have your investments done over the last three years? If you were to ask doctors, or the myriads of people who are or even pose as...
View ArticleWhy Physicians Need to Deal with Debt
Understanding the Impending Retirement-Planning Crisis By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA A serious retirement-planning crisis is looming in the US with many Baby Boomer physicians, and others, having already...
View ArticleMental and Physical Well-Being for [Physician] Boomers and Their Retirement...
By Somnath Basu PhD MBA President – AgeBander Thousand Oaks, CA A Pew Research Center study[1] on the effects of financial stress on health finds 42.4% of respondents in a survey on the subject...
View ArticleAre You Scared of Investment Losses?
Well Doctors – You Should Be! By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA President: AgeBander Thousand Oaks, CA There is a very simple way for medical professionals, and us all, to approach investment decision making....
View ArticleDr. Somnath Basu on Financial Planning Client Expectations [PodCast]
By Staff Reporters On Client Attitudes in the New Economy In this encore podcast, Somnath Basu PhD examines how the recent economic turmoil has changed financial planning clients’ attitudes and...
View ArticleDr. Somnath Basu on Retirement Happiness [Video Clip]
By Staff Reporters A PodCast Clip This brief podcast clip features Dr. Somnath Basu, director of the California Institute for Finance [CIF]. Dr. Basu, a popular ME-P thought-leader, shares his insights...
View ArticleWill Retirement Be a Bust for [Doctor] Boomers?
Are Doctors Different? By Rick Kahler MS CFP® ChFC CCIM www.KahlerFinancial.com If you’re a lay or medical professional Baby Boomer, or your parents are, here’s a ray of sunshine to brighten your day:...
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