Retirement Calculator and Retirement Services Customization Now Fully Enabled by Microsoft’s Developer Platform.
San Francisco, California (ContentDesk) May 8, 2006 --
Retirement planning website NewRetirement.com today announced complete implementation of its suite of retirement calculators and services using Microsofts .Net Framework 2.0, SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.
Using the developer platforms standard ASP.Net 2.0 features, like Membership and Profiles, NewRetirement offers a customized user experience.
Microsofts developer platform enabled NewRetirement to deploy rapidly the websites visitor personalization features.
These features give users the ability to evaluate their need for products, such as a reverse mortgage or long term care health care insurance, and to asses and track their retirement personal finances.Built from the ground up with Microsofts software, NewRetirements free retirement calculator, the retirement services inquiry process, and community advice bulletin boards interactively respond to visitors input.
These tools provide customized presentation of financial planning options matched to a users personal financial situation.
A good example of so-called Web 2.0 development is use of AJAX in the retirement calculator.
The result is a smooth and user-friendly experience.
After a visitor enters their unique financial data, the calculator provides suggestions for improving their retirement plan.
For example, suggestions might be that a retiree increase their current income with a reverse mortgage, or reduce expenses with a mortgage refinance, or protect their assets with long term care insurance.
The output is in an easily understood format and accessible to Boomers and seniors who are actively using the Internet to help create a retirement plan.NewRetirement.coms retirement information is presented in four mutually reinforcing sections:
Retirement 101, the Retirement Calculator, Retirement Services, and Retirement Community.
Retirement 101 highlights risks faced by todays retirees and offers tips for effectively managing these risks.????The Retirement Planning Calculator provides a retirement status assessment and suggests actions that may improve asset protection, increase current income, and reduce expenses.
The Retirement Services section describes the advantages and disadvantages of products and services available in the marketplace used to achieve the objectives of securing assets, increasing income, and reducing expenses.
The highlighted services include:
reverse mortgages, mortgage refinancing, debt consolidation, annuities, relocation, financial advisors, supplemental health care insurance and long term care insurance.
For visitors that ask to take the next step, such as contacting an product expert or purchasing a product or service, NewRetirements implementation of Microsoft tools makes it easy to contact multiple pre-screened providers of these products and services with little user effort.The Community section of the site provides a forum for members of the retirement community to post their own tips and advice to the entire community.
Visitors can even ask questions of their peers and visiting experts in this bulletin board style forum.About NewRetirement LLC.
Privately owned, NewRetirement LLC was founded in 2004.
NewRetirements website, www.NewRetirement.com, provides education, information and web-based tools to support visitors retirement planning efforts.
NewRetirement maintains partnerships with respected and leading organizations that provide retirement planning products and services.
NewRetirements management team members have worked for several nationally known organizations.
Among these companies are: Charles Schwab, JP Morgan, Embark.com, Wells Fargo, E-Trade, The Princeton Review, BusinessWire, AllAdvantage.com, Insurance.com, Viant Consulting, Williams Sonoma, Seer Technologies (IBM/First Boston), and US Web among many others.
Among the educational institutions attended by the team are: Stanford' s Graduate School of Business Administration, the University of Michigan' s Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston University, Haverford College, Carnegie Mellon and several others.NewRetirement.com's corporate headquarters is located at 100 Pine Street, Suite 2250, San Francisco, California 94111.
Paul Lowrey, Director of Marketing can be reached at 415-738-2435.
Email inquires email should be sent via the sites Contact Us page.
The website URL is www.newretirement.com..
California Home Building & Reconstruction Costs at an All Time High
Salt Lake City, UT (ContentDesk) July 14, 2004 -- Castle Data Services, the nation's premier provider of residential replacement cost data, today announced the results of a comprehensive statewide review of California building costs.
The results showed that while demand for housing in California has already been driving high inflation trends in the area, other factors such as the short supply of materials and labor are driving costs up as well.
One example of material cost increases, plywood, a major component of residential construction, was reported by The Bureau of Labor Statistics to have experienced a 53% average nationwide increase over the last year.
In addition, labor costs, while they have not skyrocketed to the extent of wood products, are also on the rise.
Castle's local cost experts have conducted more than four hundred contractor interviews throughout California in the past six months.
Sources also include numerous real-world property...
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The Distributive Justice of the Market - Part II
Philosophers tried to specify a "bundle" or "package" of goods, services, and intangibles (like information, or skills, or knowledge). Justice - though not necessarily happiness - is when everyone possesses an identical bundle. Happiness - though not necessarily justice - is when each one of us possesses a "bundle" which reflects his or her preferences, priorities, and predilections. None of us will be too happy with a standardized bundle, selected by a committee of philosophers - or bureaucrats, as was the case under communism.The market allows for the exchange of goods and services between holders of identical bundles. If I seek books, but detest oranges - I can swap them with someone in return for his books.
That way both of us are rendered better off than under the strict egalitarian version.Still, there is no guarantee that I will find my exact match - a person who is interested in swapping his books for my oranges. Illiquid, small, or imperfect markets thus inhibit the scope...
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Cheap Insurance - Ten Tips
Cheap insurance? Auto insurance, life insurance, health insurance, liability insurance - whatever type of insurance you need, you can buy it for less. Try the following:1. Raise you deductible. Why have a $100 deductible if a $1000 deductible won't break you? It may hurt to pay the first thousand someday, but what if meanwhile you saved several thousand? High deductibles mean lower rates. Of course, get quotes with various deductibles, to be sure you're saving enough for the higher risk.2.
Lower your coverage. Insurance agents secretly admit that people usually get sued according to policy limits. You'll be sued for more if your limit is a million than if it's a hundred thousand. A judgement beyond the policy limits is a scary thought, but this can happen no matter what your limits are. If you don't have many assets or much money in the bank, consider lowering your coverage to save money.
Get quotes first, of course, to see how much you'll save.3. Lower the insurance company's...
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Self Responsibility Drives Dahn Yoga Member to Healthy Living
(ContentDesk) November 10, 2005 -- With Dahn Yoga, Im convinced Ill live to be 150 and my kids are worried sick.
Thats the humor of Bea Sheridan of Albuquerque, New Mexico whose new passion is yoga.
A registered nurse for 48 years, Bea also holds a doctorate degree in Counseling and Health Education.Having a strong belief in self responsibility and naturopathic medicine, this 68 year old mother of three grown children has never carried health care insurance. Instead, she has always sought natural means of healing.It was at a Deepak Chopra seminar where she spotted a booth for Dahn Yoga. Chopra is widely acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine. The Dahn Yoga booth there offered aura readings -
the electromagnetic field surrounding objects.
Some people refer to this field as a bio-energy field. My aura reading was right on in terms of who I am and it compelled me to look into Dahn Yoga class offerings...
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Isurance Claim Handling Online - TPA Adjuster System
Claims management and administration software systems enable insurance claims adjusters, supervisors, and managers to process incidents and administer claims more efficiently and at a lower cost than traditional paper file and transport methods.
Some areas that are made more efficient, thus lowering costs, are otherwise insufficient tracking and handling of medical provider billing (especially with medical bill repricing) and proper compensation scheduling.
For larger claim adjuster organizations, tying claims data across multiple locations is a must.
A complete claims management system will address these issues and more.Claims Management System by Quick Internet Software Solutions (QISS), a comprehensive CMS, is a leading claims management software system that reduces cost and work and is Web-based to facilitate cross-location claims administration.
For all claim types, medical bills are entered either via online screens by in-house repricing professionals,...
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Estate Tax Planning
Estate tax is the levy by the government against the taxable estate of a deceased person. Taxable estate means gross estate reduced by allowable deductions. Gross estate means total estate comprising the value of all assets owned by the deceased at the time of death. IRS determines taxable estate by subtracting from gross estate certain allowable deductions like funeral expenses paid out of the estate, debts outstanding at the time of death, estate administration expenses, charitable, marital, and deductions
The assets are valued at their ?fair market value', or the price they would fetch if sold in an open market. The personal representative of the benefactor can choose the valuation date for ascertaining the value of the assets.
It can be either the date of the death of the benefactor, or six months later. This alternate valuation date is allowed only if it results in lower tax incidence.
The estate becomes liable for tax with the death of...
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What is Fraud
Fraud occurs when a person knowingly or intentionally conceals, misrepresents, and makes a false statement to either deny or obtain workers' compensation benefits or insurance coverage, or otherwise profit from the deceit. The key to conviction is proving in court that the misrepresentation or concealment occurred knowingly or intentionally. Premium fraud and benefit fraud are the most common types of workers compensation fraud. Premium fraud is usually committed by an employer who misrepresents the amount of payroll or classification of employees, or who attempts to avoid a higher insurance risk modifier by transferring employees to a new business entity rated as a lower risk category. Benefit fraud is usually committed by: a worker who works full time at an unreported job and draws benefits when he or she is supposed to be unable to work, or when a worker fakes an injury; a health care provider or attorney who assists the worker in fraudulent schemes, participates in double billing...
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