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PERSONAL FINANCE
- Are half of Americans unprepared for retirement?; Millennials Are Financially Behind Prior Generations at Same Life Stage; Women’s retirement readiness improves marginally ; Can Retirees Really Spend Less In Retirement?
- Strategies To Help Clients Build ‘Recession-Proof’ Portfolios ; More Retirement Investors Are Diversifying Their Portfolios: Study ; Signs That Your Trading Will Ruin Your Retirement
- What The Rise Of Free Financial Tools Mean For Consumers ; Payment apps are becoming increasingly popular with consumers
- Setting the Retirement Process in Motion ; How average are you and what does it matter?
- Advisors under scrutiny in SEC case over $1M in ‘side compensation’ ; Index funds or ETFs: Which one is better? ; Repeal Of DOL Rule Boosting Fixed-Indexed Annuity Sales, Report Says
- Congress Just Made Passing an IRA Down to Your Kids a Lot Harder. Here’s What You Can Still Do
- Electric Bills and Financial Survival ; 4 ways to kick-start good habits with a new rewards credit card ; Should We Worry About Record-High Household Debt?
- Mortgage rates hold steady despite strong economic reports
HEALTHY AGING
- Older Americans are aging in place. Are their homes ready? ; Is 75 the 65? You Need To Forget What You Know on Aging.
- Easy side hustles for retirees that fill a need
- The Many Benefits of Aging in a Community
- Can Hearing Aids Help Prevent Dementia?
- How Mah Jongg Expanded My Shrinking World
- How to handle Medicare if clients are working at 65
- Mapping Out a Fulfilling Retirement
HEALTHCARE
- Health care in 2030: Artificial intelligence will allow remote diagnoses, create ‘virtual hospitals’; Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic
- The Secrets Your Brainwaves Can Tell About Your Health
- The cure for healthcare? An end to selfishness
- How Millennials’ Views On Healthcare Could Shape The Future Of Work ; Americans would embrace AI and 24/7 monitoring to cut healthcare costs, survey finds
- How Pharmaceutical Firms Are Using Blockchain to Track Down Counterfeit Drugs
- Investing Health Savings Account Assets
- Amazon starts health care service for Seattle employees
- This cryptocurrency profits every time someone dies from CoronaVirus
TECH
- Defense Department agency suffers data breach: report
- When Entrepreneurial Passion Backfires
- McKinsey: Connectivity evolution to drive global GDP past $2tn
- Scam Alert: You’ve Been Selected for ‘Like of the Year 2020’ Cash Prizes
- European Commission presents strategies for data and Artificial Intelligence
- Google is cracking down on apps with ‘disruptive’ ads
RETIREMENT
- SECURE Act could reduce retirement savings shortfall ; Financial pros find a lot to like about the new SECURE Act
- Supporting Employees with Financial Wellness can be the Best Business ROI; We want help with college loans, not 401(k)s, workers say
- Adjusting the Retirement Savings Path
- Independent Colleges of Indiana forms 403(b) multiple employer plan
- Massachusetts takes on SEC over fiduciary standard
- Fees are going up for California state workers’ 401(k) plans — State Worker Inbox
- 401(k) ‘kickback’ suit against Fidelity booted from court ; Expert ‘Opinions’: Schlichter Takes Another Shot at Fee Reimbursement in 401(k) Suit
PENSIONS
- How a tax on financial transactions would simply hurt the middle class; Pension Policy Chief Detailed to Capitol Hill to Assist Senators
- NYC Teamsters Pension Reapplies for Benefits Cuts ; Quick fix for multiemployer pensions unlikely on Capitol Hill
- CalPERS votes to sponsor bill to keep lid on private debt investments
- GOP lawmakers demand overhaul of shaky MBTA pension fund
- Teacher pension changes sputter in Georgia legislature
- NJ Pension Fund Trustee Sentenced for Embezzling over $360K
- Pension bonds the only option
- Pritzker’s accounting gimmicks can’t fix pension crisis, but real reform can
- Indiana Public Retirement slates $180 million for alts managers
INTERNATIONAL
- Advisers hiding ‘head in sand’ over DB
- Canadian DB Plans Rebound in 2019, Return 14%
- Hong Kong Pension Industry Takes Baby Step to Do-Good Investing
- Latin Americans Expect To Have ‘Gaps’ In Retirement Income: LIMRA
- Trade unions back on streets but French pension fight shifts to parliament
- Will Collective Defined Contribution Schemes take off?
MARKETS
- Final Week of February Brings Fresh Round of Earnings, GDP Data
- Stock-market slide led by energy names as coronavirus worries ratchet higher; Opinion: What a falling dollar could do to the stock market
- Central Banks Advised to Use Tool Kits Aggressively During Trouble
- Oil falls 1% as spreading virus compounds concerns over demand hit ;Natural gas is crushing wind and solar power
- 43% of pension managers unlikely to report on ESG policy ; Here’s What You Need to Know About Sustainable Funds ; Good Grades: Higher Ed’s ESG Investments Match or Beat Returns of Peers, Study Says
- Soft inflation adds to Japan’s economic woes, keeps BOJ under pressure
- Brexit and the Workforce—The Year Ahead for HR
ALTERNATIVES
- How hedge funds are preparing for US election as Trump-Sanders battle looms ; Cabbies worry as hedge fund snaps up taxi medallions ; Hedge fund accuses US regulators of bias in short-selling case ; Equity gains bolster EU hedge funds’ portfolios
- How Private Equity Became a Beta Play ; Is It Worth Timing Commitments to Private Equity?; Texas TRS Looks to Replace Some Public Equity Allocation with Private Credit ; Calpers steps up bid to rein in private debt investment disclosures
- Blockchain Is Laying Foundation for Digital Money ; Cryptocurrency Wallet Adoption Has Tripled in Three Years ;FCoin Considers Reopening after Revealing up to $130M Bitcoin Deficit ; Shopify joins Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra Association
- Is It Just A Myth That Real Estate Is A Better Investment Than Stocks? ; How Will Artificial Intelligence Change The Commercial Real Estate Industry? ; 6 Steps to Take After Buying a Commercial Property; REIT stocks rise, boosted by the drop in 30-year Treasury yields to record low
- 5 Reasons Why Family Offices Are Focusing On Direct Investments
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Jeffrey H. Snyder currently serves as Founder for The Morning Pulse, Inc and lead anchor for the Broadcast Retirement Network Considered an “industry insider”, thought-leader and an independent voice on retirement, personal finance and related issues, he has appeared in both television and print discussing the issues related to retirement and the capital markets.
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