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- The Weekly Pulse for Sunday, February 24, 2019 In this episode: (1) #DataPrivacy – what are the rules of the road for employers (plan sponsors) and service providers?, (2) How do #millennials stack up against their older counterparts in terms of compensation and savings?, (3) Markets and #crypto rebound; how are investors reacting? , (4) the fastest growing well paid jobs and (5) Consumer Reports cites a decline in quality for Tesla. Special guest this week is the #amazing Phil Rovner, Engineer, Entrepreneur & Musician – still going at age 87!
TOP SOCIAL MEDIA TRENDS 
- The Fastest Growing Well Paid Job
- We’re All Stressed About Retirement
- Sacrificing Salary for Sustainability
PERSONAL FINANCE, FINANCIAL WELLNESS & FINANCIAL LITERACY
- Does America have a savings crisis? ; What Is Financial Literacy and Why Does It Matter to Me? ; California May Require Financial Literacy Course In High School
- Does A Target Date Mutual Fund Target Your Retirement Needs, Wants And Wishes?
- Negotiating the Fog of Retirement Uncertainty ;Want to retire, but can’t quite yet? Welcome to ‘barista FIRE’
- The rise of the robo-adviser ; The Best Performing Robo-Advisors of 2018
- Here is Why Consumer Finance is Attracting Fintech Startups
- More Americans are taking longer to pay off their credit-card debt
- Why most banks offer near-zero interest rates on savings accounts
- Many women put their retirements at risk making financial sacrifices
- Why a Tax Cut Might Not Mean a Bigger Refund
- Tweaking Social Security for the Future
- The $1.4 trillion federal student debt market faces a huge issue — transparency
- Arizona The Latest State To Attempt An Annuity Sales Rule
HEALTHCARE & WELLNESS
- Why Home Health is One of the Fastest Growing Healthcare Markets
- Some apps send health data, private details to Facebook: Report
- How health-care costs us $89 billion a year in lost time
- CVS Looks To Make Its Drugstores A Destination For Health Care
- Several issues must be addressed to tackle rising health care costs ; High Drug Prices Erode Part D Coverage ; Drugs Might Be the 2019 Health Cost Good Guy: CMS Actuaries
TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Oscars 2019: Harvard grad predicts winners with near-perfect accuracy
- What We Did and Didn’t Learn From the Failed Amazon–Queens Deal
- 5 workplace technologies that cause the most employee data breaches ; California bill aims to strengthen data breach notification law
- Why Some Investors Are Skeptical About China’s Search Giant
- Fintech Deals Got Bigger And Better In 2018
401k, 403b, 457b, NONQUALIFIED, STATE-RUN PLANS & LITIGATION
- Participants Stay the Course With Their DC Plans
- Death Of DOL Rule Helps Drive Rollover Market, LIMRA Says
- Auto-Portability: Preventer of 401k ‘Leakage’
- Fidelity Charged With ‘Secret’ Payment Scheme in Violation of ERISA
- Fewer corporate DC plans holding company stock
- GAO Asks for More Guidance on DC Plan Assets Transferred to States ; New Jersey Senate passes Secure Choice retirement savings bill
- SCOTUS will not review USC 403(b) case
PENSIONS
- US Public Pension Assets Tumble in Q4
- Pension Funds Investing In Crypto Is A Big Deal!
- Texas and California Pensions Team Up With Buyout Firms for More Deals
- Pension funds getting more involved with CEO pay – report
- CalPERS’ board adopts new compensation package
- Pension ramp need not be padded
- State pensions still unsustainable
- New policymakers may revisit pension tax
- Under proposed bill, Missouri teachers could choose own 401K plan
- New Mexico PERA Gets a Task Force
- Audit tallies $600M in nonpayment by University System to Ga. pensions
- Are Illinois Public Retirement Systems Pension Funds Or Pyramid Schemes? ; Illinois Cops Turned $850 Into a $20000 Pension Boost ; “There is no guarantee”: CMPD official says employee retirement fund could go away
- Kentucky universities ask to be let out of pension plan as costs become unsustainable ; These educators were elected by outraged teachers. Now they have a pension bill.
- Puerto Rico ERS bondholders sue to be made trustees
- State comptroller won’t investigate St. Clare’s pension crisis
INTERNATIONAL
- Will Brexit affect my private pension?
- Pension scheme launches for teachers
- People’s Pension reduces fees as participants’ DC savings grow
- Investors see Brazil’s Bolsonaro facing key test on pension reforms as ‘political risk’ rises
MARKETS
- World markets themes for the week aheadUS economic expectations jump most since 2008 after the government shutdown
- Pimco: The ‘sugar rush’ is almost over, so it’s time to ‘de-risk’ and raise cash
- Why a Tax Cut Might Not Mean a Bigger Refund ; What oil-tanker rates can tell traders about OPEC members’ compliance with cuts
- Investment lessons from Yale — without the tuition
- Europe’s markets struggle against downbeat earnings, economic news ; Dollar crown intact as central banks emulate Fed tightening pause
- China’s January home price growth at 9-month low as confidence dips
- Britain in the Crazed Brexit Vortex
ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
- Where Fee Pressures Hurt the Most
- Hedge funds hold smallest slice of stock market since 2012 ; The Senator vs. the Hedge Fund
- Why private equity appeals ; Calpers Investment Chief Renews Pitch for Private-Equity Revamp ; Leveraged Debt Markets Wait for Private Equity’s $1.2 Trillion
- Public pension fund managers want in on infrastructure
- Amid Stock Volatility, Should Retirement Investors Look To Real Estate? ; First automated real estate transaction in Vermont using cryptocurrency completed
- Fidelity Becomes First Financial Institution to Take Bitcoin Lightning ‘Torch’
- The Family Office And Its Lawyers Part 1—Inside Or Out?
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