Tag: grief

How Grief’s Emotional Impact Is Compounded by Secondary Financial Loss

It’s common to think about grief primarily as a response to a single, shattering loss like the death of a loved one, a divorce, or a terminal diagnosis. Grief is rarely so tidy. Alexi Gilmore Mankookian, a Certified Grief Support Specialist, explained this at a recent...

The Financial Impact of Grief and Loss

One of the emotions—or more accurately, the constellation of many emotions—that financial planners often must help clients deal with is grief. It’s common for people to engage a planner during times of transition and loss such as the death of a parent or spouse....