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
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
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.
ABOUT THE BROADCAST RETIREMENT NETWORK
The Broadcast Retirement Network (BRN) is the first lifestyle media platform focused on helping Americans achieve financial independence and to make retirement and savings culturally relevant. The content is informative and engages the viewer. Most importantly – No agendas, no sales pitches, no product pushes.
Our morning show, BRN AM, provides an assessment of daily issues so that Americans can create a plan of action for themselves and their families. BRN AM focuses on delivering headline news via brief interviews with real Americans working toward their financial goals.
Unlike financial shows which prioritize institutional investment managers and public policy organizations, BRN AM is a lifestyle show that brings the stories and ideas of regular Americans to the forefront. We engage with a range of topics pertaining to retirement, focusing individual episodes on personal finance, healthcare, social security, home-ownership and so on to provide viewers with the full picture regarding the future of financial security in America.