January 16, 2019 SUBSCRIBE
PERSONAL FINANCE AND FINANCIAL LITERACY
- New bill looks to give teachers tools to teach financial literacy ; Florida bill could change graduation requirements for high school students
- Millennials are embracing trend of retiring early; should you? ; Average American Retirement Portfolio – Twenty Percent Better Than The Average Retiree
- Season of falling gasoline prices over
- Federal workplace-charity organization, already smarting, feels the sting of the shutdown
- Kitces: Cerulli is wrong about its advisor forecast ; Life and Annuity Issuers Prep for Q4 Earnings
- 5 ways empty nesters can boost their savings and turbocharge their 401(k)s
HEALTHCARE
- The Game Isn’t Worth The Candle: Reflections On The JPM Healthcare Conference
- Addressing Healthcare Consumerism a Top Priority for Docs in 2019
- Hamilton Health Care says it’s recovered stolen money ; Employees sacked, CEO fined in SingHealth security breach
TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Mobile, social, and cloud will boost artificial intelligence
- Fintech firms want to shake up banking, and that worries the Fed
- Connected device popularity will drive wearables market to $2.9B by 2023
- Groundbreaking US Plan Would Permit Drone Flights Over Crowds
- In the Shutdown, the US Government Is Flirting with Cybersecurity Disaster
401k, 403b, 457b, NONQUALIFIED, STATE-RUN PLANS
- More than 500000 servicemembers now enrolled in new Blended Retirement System
- Government shutdown could push back SEC’s Reg BI timeline
- Putnam Investments asks Supreme Court to rule on loss causation case ; GE Wants Loss Over In-House 401(k) Funds Revisited
PENSIONS
- MBTA pension crisis should be a priority
- Chicago Pensions: Is There Hope For Reform?
- Public kept in the dark about city pension performance
- Kentucky pension bill not expected to impact Fitch rating
- Connecticut Task Force in Extra Innings to Find Pension Fixes
- ‘Real eye opener’: York County tackling $83M in unfunded retirement benefits
- California funds launch principles to stem financial fallout of #MeToo ; California pension trustees call for disclosures of #MeToo costs
- New CalPERS Board Member Has Serious Concerns About Private Equity Plan
INTERNATIONAL
- 2019 pension plan pressure points ; Pooled-risk pension plans would give many Canadians a more financially secure retirement
- British Columbians say they’ll need $1.07M to retire comfortably: Study ; Quebecers have the lowest retirement savings goals in Canada: RBC survey
- Demand for financial services falls for first time in five years
MARKETS
- Fed’s Clarida Reiterates That Central Bank Can Be Patient With Interest-Rate Increases
- When It Comes to Rates, What Are Central Banks Going to Do Next?
- What US Government Shutdown Means for Economic Data
- China trade shock hits global stocks, commodities
- World’s Highest Gasoline Price Prompts Strike in Zimbabwe
- Natural-gas futures post a nearly 16% climb; oil prices end lower
- Money funds surge past $3 trillion in assets, most since 2010, as investors flee volatile markets
- China growth worries flare up again after trade data ; China Doubles Foreign Investment Limit in Further Opening
- A No-Deal Brexit? Leaders Are Alarmed; Voters, Not So Much
ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
- Hedge Funds and Quants Stay Hard Skeptics on the Stock Rebound ; PG&E Was a Hedge-Fund Darling. That Bet Flopped.
- Sears Liquidation Not All Bad For Commercial Real Estate ; City sues real estate brokers for $21 million in latest Airbnb salvo
- Institutional investors plot large property allocations ; Institutional Investors in SFRs Search for Yield by Tweaking Their Criteria
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Jeffrey H. Snyder currently serves as Founder, CEO for The Morning Pulse, Inc. Considered an “industry insider”, thought-leader and an independent voice, he has appeared in both television and print discussing the issues related to retirement and the capital markets. He also is the creator, producer and host of the The Weekly Pulse podcast and TV show, as well as the original series Roads2Retirement.
ABOUT THE MORNING PULSE
Founded in 2012, The Morning Pulse, Inc. is an award-winning digital technology, media company and consulting firm focused on aggregating, organizing and delivering retirement and financial services industry information daily and weekly. Over 200,000 industry professionals, private and public sector executives and government officials have come to trust The Morning Pulse for timely delivery of important and relevant news and content. In 2018, The Morning Pulse received the National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrator’s Media Leadership Award.