Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen made homophobic and racist comments while working for G4S Secure Solutions (USA), whose U.S. headquarters are in Jupiter, according to a former coworker. G4S has received widespread media coverage since Mateen conducted the attack while off duty with G4S. One issue scrutinized by...
It's not just low-income households whose savings are lacking. By Maurie Backman Americans don't always do such a great job of saving money, but when we think about those who have little to no savings, we tend to imagine low-income families struggling to make ends meet. So...
Americans want straightforward credit card rewards, so here are some cards that have them. By Matthew Frankel According to the latest Capital One Rewards Barometer survey, only 31% of Americans are fully satisfied with their primary rewards credit card. Other independent surveys show more optimistic results, but...
Investing with a Roth IRA, asking for a raise, and bumping up contributions to employee-sponsored retirement plans can lead to a much higher income in retirement. By Todd Campbell Millions of Americans fear that their retirement savings will come up short, so if you're worrying that you...
โBilly, pay attention!โ That was your first listening lesson. Probably delivered when you were too young to pay attention. Fast forward 20 something years (or more) and youโre STILL not listening. Your customer is telling you he or she is somewhere between โinterestedโ and โreadyโ in your sales...
Here is a sales action for you to take: Become question aware. Here is another sales action for you to take: Listen with the intent to understand. Every time you are asked a question. Ask yourself this question before you answer it...
Dear Mr. Berko: Our neighbor is an engineer. He's a bright, well-read 76-year-old, and he's nobody's fool. He was telling us about a drug called metformin, which he says delays the aches and pains of advancing age and postpones many of the devastating diseases that...
Dear Mr. Berko: My wife and I are both seniors and have a $20,000 certificate of deposit coming due at Wells Fargo. We told the teller that we won't renew the CD because the rates are too low. The teller introduced us to a Wells...
By Julie Neitzel Many investors are not aware that the financial services industry operates under two main standards of care: suitability and fiduciary. Depending on which of these two operating standards applies, an advisor may be allowed to recommend investments with poor performance records, or those...
The 220-ton cancer fighting proton therapy cyclotron that was featured in the June edition of SFBW has arrived at Baptist Health South Florida's Miami Cancer Institute. The machine, nicknamed "Pete," was shipped 4,700 miles from Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, to Port Everglades, where it was loaded into an unusual looking flatbed truck...
