Money Matters: Ouch! I Missed A Credit Card Payment and My Interest Rate Went Up!

 What you don't know about credit cards and credit scores could cost you money.  Lots of it. 

 Bonnie Yam CFP® CFA reviews the basics of credit reporting and credit scores.  Learn about the time-tested method for getting yourself out of credit card debt and legitimate organizations to call if you are unable to do so on your own.          

Bonnie Yam, CFA, CFP, CLU, ChFC, RICP, QPFC, EA, CVA, CEPAMs. Yam graduated from Smith College with a BA in Math and Economics.  She received her MBA in finance from University of Chicago.  Before starting her own company, she was a financial manager for TIME magazine and a Hedge Fund Analyst for Cheetah Investment.  Ms. Yam has been in the pension consulting business for 15 years.  She started her own RIA, Pension Maxima with the objective to provide cost transparency and a platform that can truly benefit clients first. In the past years, Ms. Yam has assisted many companies in analyzing their 401(k) plan costs, successfully helping companies save costs, sometimes as much as 50%.  Ms. Yam has written two Ebooks, “401(k) Benchmarking” and “Understanding 5500”.         

Presented by the Financial Planning Association of New York.

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