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Robert Schmansky, CFP®
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3/15/09
City, State:
Detroit, MI
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http://soundretirement.blogspot.com/
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Northern Financial Advisors, Inc
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Robert Schmansky, CFP®

My day job is that of a fee-only personal financial advisor. I've also been an adjunct instructor of CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(tm) courses for a local university, and am a self-employed advisor and presenter to military families on financial topics, as well as a rookie blogger.

My hobbies include playing and coaching lacrosse, running, following hockey, and blogging. I can become obsessed with reading quotes from time to time, including anything from Mark Twain.

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Will Boomers Crash the Markets?

Thursday Oct 22, 2009

We all know we can’t time markets, but there has been a recent revival of a theory from financial experts that we are ever closer to a market crash we all should have seen coming. The Congressional Budget Office even issued a report addressing the alleged problem. According to the theory, we are just a few years away from ...

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