February 6, 2021 SUBSCRIBE
PERSONAL FINANCE
- I Already Blew My Budget. How Can I Get Back on Track? ; How we increased our net worth by $1 million in 6 years and retired early ; 6 ways you’re sabotaging your emergency savings ; How to find an accountant and a financial planner
- Walking away from debt vs. filing bankruptcy ; CARES Act’s Loan Forbearance is Working
- Learn About Bitcoin So You Can Intelligently Invest in Cryptocurrency ; FINRA Report Highlights New Focus On “Game-Like” Trading Apps ; How Robinhood became a target of the retail-trading hype it helped create ; How to choose an investing app if you don’t want to use Robinhood anymore ; r/WSB is under attack from the inside and is being corrupted
- Small business owners faced with tough hiring decisions ; Small Business Administration Urged to Address Challenges with PPP Loan Application System ; Sitting on billions, U.S. Catholic dioceses amassed millions in taxpayer COVID-19 aid ;
- 30-year fixed mortgage rate remains -1.29% below 2019’s average ; How student loans may affect your ability to buy a home ; Can I Deduct a New Roof?
- California gas prices soar to $3.27 a gallon, 66 cents more than national average
- Investors Who Made Money Trading Gamestop Have A Big Tax Bill In Store
- Millennial Estate Planning Surges During Pandemic: Survey ; How do I discuss estate planning with my family and loved ones?
HEALTHY AGING
- ‘Just Cruel’: Digital Race For COVID-19 Vaccines Leaves Many Seniors Behind
- Design tips for incorporating aging-in-place elements into your home
- Creating Second Responders for Our Aging Population
HEALTHCARE
- What’s Next for the Digital Transformation of Healthcare?
- Health Care Costs Continued to Rise in 2020 ; Some Participants Reducing 401(k) Contributions to Contribute to HSAs
- Consumer Group Wants Rules For Covid’s Effect on Life Insurance Buyers
- NCSC: Chinese Threat Actors Targeting US Healthcare, Genomic Data
- A Parallel Pandemic Hits Health Care Workers: Trauma and Exhaustion
- 2021 Changes to Medicare Coverage: A Medicare Customer Question
EDUCATION
- How GameStop got kids interested in stocks for the first time ; Fintech Startups Target Younger Audiences, Investor Interest In Financial Literacy ; Learn from UNC students on how to budget
- Democrats Will Introduce Plan To Cancel $50,000 Of Student Loans
- Overlooked By Colorado’s Vaccine Plan, Higher Education Teachers And Staff Wait Their Turn
TECH
- Lawsuit filed against California firm over state auditor data breach ; As details emerge about major Vermont data breach, governor’s office steps in ; Blockchain transactions confirm murky and interconnected ransomware scene
- ‘This could happen to you’ | Charlotte woman falls victim to Venmo scam ; Don’t fall for this Elite Dangerous scam
- Why the Financial Services Industry is Embracing the Cloud
- Enterprise Wearable Tech Looking for Its iPhone Moment During and After COVID
- Uber’s growing, ‘exciting’ delivery business, possible rides recovery have analysts bullish
- Addressing bias in artificial intelligence ; How Censorship Can Influence Artificial Intelligence
- Reviewers revealed how they leave false reviews on Amazon, keep the products, and get their money back
- US Criticizes India’s Internet Curbs
RETIREMENT
- What to do in your 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s to retire with enough money ; The Average 401(k) Balance by Age ; Divorced in Retirement? 20 Ways To Maintain Your Financial Independence ; How to retire rich without a budget
- New data show few Americans have borrowed from retirement during pandemic
- Plan Sponsors Want Continuing Relationship With Retirees ; Don’t Overlook How Taxes Erode Retirement Income, Report Says ;
- Annuities Just May Be the Broccoli of Retirement Planning ; The Case for Replacing Some Bonds With Annuities ; Delaware Adopts Annuity Sales Standards Regulation ; Annuities: When to hold ’em, when to fold ’em
- COVID-19’s impact on employee benefit plan audits: An auditor’s perspective ; U.S. is worst among rich nations for worker benefits
- Pooled employer plans can help level the retirement playing field ; Another MEP targeted in 401(k) litigation, health care system sued
PENSIONS
- Walsh Pledges to Help Solve Multiemployer Pension Crisis ; Defined benefit pensions crucial for economic health
- Proposal to shift future state workers from pension plan to 401Ks moves forward in Tallahassee
- Senate bill would end Florida Retirement System’s pension option for new employees
- Retired teacher group wants $78.4B pension system audited
- Firefighter pension bill gets $30M in committee
- New Jersey Pension Seeks More Private Equity, Credit Investments
- Pa. state universities open up another retirement incentive to thin its workforce
- Lawmakers Propose Early Retirement Incentives for Public Workers
- Teacher Pension Bill Clears State House
- Wisconsin Finds Owners of Lost Pensions
INTERNATIONAL
- DB pension scheme health ‘surpasses’ pre-Covid levels
- Closet indexing class action gets the go-ahead
- Dutch, Japanese pension funds pay for Amazon deforestation
- Ending benefit lifeline risks health of millions, medics say ; 10,000 pensioners still waiting for Winter Fuel Payment after DWP blunder
- Young people are turning down free money by not participating in workplace retirement savings plans
MARKETS
- How to Win at the Stock Market by Being Lazy ; Gold, silver end more than 2% lower on fall in US weekly jobless claims, dollar strength ; Wall Street worries about regulatory fallout from the GameStop saga ; Inflation expectations are highest since 2013 ; US yield curve steepest since 2015 on stimulus hopes ; Brands took a beating in 2020. Here’s how to bring them back to life.
- US gasoline consumption to peaks by 2023 as domestic crude output keeps rising: EIA ; Canada-US gasoline exports grow ; Oil climbs, with US prices up a fourth straight session ;Could Oil Feel the Reddit Rush? The Short Answer Is Yes. ; Natural-gas futures turns higher as weekly US supplies drop
- On India’s own Cryptocurrency question, here’s what Modi government has decided ; Japan’s December household spending falls as recovery stalls ; Swiss Consumer Sentiment Weakens In January ; The Bank of England Tells Banks to Prepare for Negative Interest Rates
ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
- Why Don’t Governments Put Out ESG Reports? ; Goodbye, gas? The era of electric cars is coming faster than anyone thought. ; Ending fossil fuel subsidies: A climate solution to get behind ; A paradigm shift in sustainable investment for Latin America ; Aligning your investment dollars with your values
- 98% of responding wealth advisors to increase alternatives allocation in 2021 ; Troubled $1.8B alts manager hit with federal, state and SEC charges ; Private markets, real estate see fewer funds raised in 2020
- Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Founder Admits to Massive Fraud ; Why I joined the online army taking on the hedge funds
- Cryptocurrency Economy Crosses $1.1 Trillion Market Cap ; Forget Bitcoin: Inside the insane world of altcoin cryptocurrency trading ; Australian pleads guilty to $90 million crypto fund scam in the US ; Global tax enforcement chiefs target cryptocurrency
- Will 2021 Be The Year To Work From Anywhere? ; Global real estate investment bounced back in Q4
- Founders of Asia’s family-owned companies seek private equity exit
