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- The Weekly Pulse Podcast for January 20, 2019In this episode: (1) The future of target date funds, (2) Millennial women hit job milestones, (3) How do millennials consume financial information?, (4) Netflix prices go up; 80 million viewers check out ‘Bird Box’, (5) Markets jump; active managers see a decline of $143 billion in December and (6) Allocating fees in a retirement plan. This week’s special guest is SECOR Asset Management‘s Gretchen Tai.
TOP SOCIAL MEDIA TRENDS 
- Millennial Women Hit Job Milestones
- Go-Fund-Me Fills Large Health Care Gap
- Caregivers Need their Employers Help
PERSONAL FINANCE, FINANCIAL WELLNESS & FINANCIAL LITERACY
- When $1 Million in a 401(k) Is Really $600000 ; Retiring Baby Boomers Put Squeeze On 401(k) Advisors
- Ciceronian Retirement and 21st-Century Demographics
- Parent PLUS College Loans Can Spell Peril
- Financial wellness programs need nurturing to succeed
- Why It Still Makes Sense to Pay a Financial Advisor
- How to get your (emotional) life in order before you retire
- With ambitious retirement goals, will this couple have enough to meet their lifestyle needs?
- Mortgage rates stand pat as federal shutdown creates uncertainty about economy
- How to score cash, perks in the new credit card rewards loyalty game
- 3 colleges that help you handle student debt
- Remarried after having kids? Here are tips to avoid accidentally disinheriting them
- What happens to robos in a downturn? Q&A with Josh Pace, president of TCA by E-Trade ; Morningstar, Prudential Beat RICO Suit Over Robo-Adviser ; What the government shutdown means for advisors
- Why the insurance industry needs to be more experimental
- Suit against MetLife over unpaid retirement benefits dismissed
HEALTHCARE & WELLNESS
- High prices are still plaguing health care, and the more we talk about it, the better
- Democratizing artificial intelligence in health care ; Artificial Intelligence Opens New Frontiers in Healthcare
- Health-care sector is far too vulnerable to cybersecurity threats
- 5 Issues Impeding Healthcare Innovation Progress
- Health care creates a tenth of US greenhouse gas emissions. That has to stop.
- Universal health care remains an evasive but noble goal for the nation
- In pursuit of better health care for less money, Minnesota hospitals show uneven results
- Doctor has a side operation: Selling coffee to help pay for health care overseas
TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Collection 1 data breach covers more than 772 million email addresses ; Phishing attacks are top employee data breach threat for HR
- Facebook May Be Slapped with ‘Record-Setting’ FTC Fine for Data Breach Scandal
- Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Apple accused of GDPR breach
- ‘Major flaws’ in cyber insurance policies identified
- Will Higher Ed Keep AI in Check?
- Microsoft is investing $500 million to tackle Seattle housing crisis
- Spike In Data Breaches Sees Cybersecurity Venture Capital Funding Peak At $5.3B
- Facebook employees busted leaving 5-star reviews for Portal on Amazon
- The Power Of Celebrity Fintech Influencers
- Big banks embrace fintech to exploit disrupters’ expertise
401k, 403b, 457b, NONQUALIFIED, STATE-RUN PLANS
- 401(k) investors leave risk assets in 2018 ; DC Plan Sponsors Still Shunning Annuities ; Why 401(k) Growth Is Flattening
- 401(k) plan sponsors laser-focused on fees
- Furloughed Federal Workers Using 401(k)s Need Help, Toomey Says
- Shutdown puts regulatory action in fog of uncertainty for industry
- Auto drawdown on way to becoming new mainstay
- Bipartisan Legislation Proposed to Promote Student Loan Repayment Retirement Benefits
- Details Available About Duke University 403(b) Lawsuits Settlement
- Duke University settles in ERISA fiduciary cases, agrees to pay $10.65 million
- Best Interest and Best Practices #13: Why Wait Until After You are Sued?
PENSIONS
- Fourth-quarter decline smacks pension funds in largest markets
- Green Bay Committee to Protect Pensions optimistic about new bill
- Legislature, governor have to act now to save state pensions
- Latest warning for Oregon PERS: negative cash flow
- Kansas pension fund leaders condemn Kelly’s ‘terrible,’ ‘unwise’ refinancing proposal
- New Jersey Considers Defined-Contribution Public Employee Pensions
- Funding the pension deficit
- The Los Angeles teachers’ strike has cost $97 million. Now both sides are negotiating again ; The Los Angeles teacher strike has a huge problem: Pensions ; Here’s how the LA teachers’ strike is part of California unions’ pension preservation plot
- Pension payments could dip for retired Wisconsin public employees
- Public pensions and tax money
- Pension Buyout Participation Rate Higher Than Expected, Early Numbers Show
- Jasper board moves forward with pension plan change
- Another Illinois lawmaker hits the pension lottery
- PG&E’s Bankruptcy Will Be Costlier Than You Realize
- PBGC preps takeover of Sears’ pension plans
INTERNATIONAL
- UK experts: Just say no to capital buffer requirement
- Canada’s vast pension fund is gaining even more financial clout
- Swedish Pension Fund Divesting from Nukes, Oil Sands Companies
- Pensions Regulator to sharpen decision-making scrutiny
- Advocates for Thai Workers Threaten High Court Action if Israel Doesn’t Implement Pension Deal
- Italian early-retirement option rolls back 2011 pension reform
- Public pension payments set for hike but rising prices could cut real value
MARKETS
- US consumer sentiment at two-year low, manufacturing rebounds
- The government shutdown is becoming a ‘meaningful risk’ to the economy
- Economists Need to Add a Little History to Their Tool Kit
- US bond yields hit 3-week highs as Wall Street rallies
- Shifting Treasuries Buyer Base May Be Bond-Market Achilles Heel
- Gold prices inch up on Fed rate pause hopes
- Oil climbs 1% on OPEC output cut, but US production robust
- The Hot New Asset Class Is Lego Sets
- World Economy Wobbles on Eve of Davos With Politics to Blame
- Mutual funds, ETFs see largest monthly outflow since 2008 in December
- Europe’s Interest-Rate Hike Pioneers Are Now Calling for Caution
- Extending the Brexit deadline could cause major issues with EU elections coming
- Brexit opponent says ‘it’s inevitable’ UK will ask for delay
ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
- Dry powder holdings hit $2.1 trillion – Preqin
- Hedge Fund Trends For 2019: Industry ‘Has Finally Hit Its Saturation Point’
- Volatility Hedge Funds Hit by Market Horrors in All Directions
- Hedge Fund Clients Yank $22.5 Billion, the Most in Two Years
- Private equity investors get IRS rules on 20% tax break
- When Cash Is Not King. The New Favorite Investment Options For Family Offices
- Eight Predictions For Family Office Real Estate Investments In 2019 ; Foreign Investors Are on a Record China Property Spree
- US Congressman Reintroduces Bill to Give ‘Safe Harbor’ to Cryptocurrency Firms
- What Is Plaguing The Cryptocurrency Market?
- Infrastructure funds set for boom year after record 2018
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