January 9, 2021 SUBSCRIBE
PERSONAL FINANCE
- Robinhood Wants More Female Investors. So Does Everyone Else. ; How Individual Investors Can Become Your Most Loyal And Valuable Customers
- Why Financial Advisors Should Take Another Look at Medicare ; Avoid These Pitfalls When Adding Financial Planning Services to Your Firm’s Offerings
- Publicly Traded Asset Managers Are No Longer Boring ; 3 Reasons Why Investing Experts Love Mutual Funds ; For Bankers, 2020 Was a Bad Year to Have a Good Year
- 30-year mortgage rate matches record low
- Here’s How Much Car Insurers Raise Rates After an Accident
- IRS offers guidance on deducting PPP expenses
- Estate planning and preserving family wealth via corporation
- January is the new December for charitable contributions ; How to donate and spend with impact
HEALTHY AGING
- Active retirement keeps me involved in science and helps others
- DNA-editing method shows promise to treat mouse model of aging disease progeria
- If you aren’t thrilled with your Medicare Advantage Plan, now is the time to swap it or drop it ; Medicaid expansion has saved hospitals $6.4M, study shows
HEALTHCARE
- Putting The Consumer At The Center Of Healthcare
- COVID-19 vaccination support rising in US and UK
- Why the Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Venture Collapsed: ‘Health Care Was Too Big a Problem’
- Covid-19: Fears of Violence Lead to Increased Gun Purchases
- Vast majority of data breaches reported to HHS occur among providers
EDUCATION
- Marshall High’s National Business Honor Society Hosts Virtual Financial Literacy Night
- Understanding the financial implications of higher education
- Harvard, Yale among rich schools facing stimulus payment cuts
TECH
- 10 fastest-growing cybersecurity skills to learn in 2021 ; Decrypted: How bad was the US Capitol breach for cybersecurity?
- Can Amazon Take on Spotify With Podcasts?
- How Tinder became the app that defines online dating
- Will Publicly-Backed Companies Finally Embrace Blockchain?
- US law sets stage for boost to artificial intelligence research ; Harnessing the Power of Crowd-Driven Artificial Intelligence
- Why Amazon and Google are skipping CES
- Trump Executive Order Attempts to Ban 8 More Chinese Apps
RETIREMENT
- Avoid Tapping Into 401(k) Early
- Solving the Retirement Plan Liability Insurance Puzzle
- Musicians Union’s Pension Fund Again Seeks OK From Treasury Dept. To Cut Benefits To Prevent Insolvency within 20 years
- Sponsors Have Many Considerations as PEPs Hit the Market ; Are PEPs ‘Instrumental’ in Closing the 401k Coverage Gap?
- EEOC Issues Notices of Proposed Rulemakings on Wellness Program Rules ; Senate Tilt Portends Big Policy Shifts
- ERISA Exhaustion Defense Still Viable In Some Jurisdictions ; Ski Resort Workers’ 401(k) Lawsuit Comes Up Short
PENSIONS
- Data Provides Reasons for Encouraging the Offering of DB Plans ; How Measuring Replacement Income Can Aid Assessment of Public Pension Plans ; Strong Investment Gains Fail to Boost US Corporate Pensions in 2020
- Employee Benefit Provisions in the Recent COVID-19 Relief Bill
- Grayscale Holds Over 3% of Bitcoin, Sees Pension Interest
- Fight Over San Diego’s Pension Cuts Moves Closer to End ; With Legal Fights Over Pension Reform (Maybe) Over, a New Ordeal Begins
INTERNATIONAL
- Actuaries ‘ideally placed’ to plot DB schemes’ way forward
- Enabling better aging: The 4 things seniors need, and the 4 things that need to change
- Ontario students call on teachers to pressure pension fund to divest from fossil fuels
- EPFO pension should move to defined contribution
- FTSE 350 pension deficit nearly doubles in 2020
MARKETS
- Weekly initial jobless claims total 787000 ; US trade deficit rises to more than 14-year high; Farm Economy Outlook Improving in 2021 ; There is an unusually high amount of cash floating around, a ‘reliable’ economic signal ; The government is preparing to restart its central small-business relief program.
- Gas Price Jump Likely in 2021 ; US Imports No Saudi Crude for First Time in 35 Years ; In 2020, US natural gas prices were the lowest in decades
- 7 things to know about renewable natural gas ; Washington state proposes legislation to phase out natural gas utility service
- India’s GDP Set to Drop 7.7%, Biggest Contraction Since 1952 ; Spanish Economy Minister estimates GDP expanded in Q4 despite coronavirus restrictions ; Thailand Skipped Lockdown to Save Economy, But Growth Takes Hit ; Brexit Becomes Truckers’ Nightmare as Red Tape Ties Up Drivers
ALTERNATIVES
- These Are The Trends Experts Are Seeing In Hedge Funds Right Now ; Rebound for AUMs among Top 10 Hedge Fund Trends
- New ‘investment-plus’ test poses risks to private equity investors
- Venture capital hits record high in US in 2020 despite pandemic
- The world’s cryptocurrency is now worth more than $1 trillion ; Broker Touts Exotic Bitcoin Bet to Squeeze Income From Crypto ; Bitcoin’s biggest fans are hedge fund baby boomers ; Investing in bitcoin? Keep this in mind before selecting a crypto exchange
- Amazon to invest $2 billion to build affordable housing in these three cities ; Consumer Confidence In Housing Takes Another Hit; Now May Be the Time to Invest in a Golf Community ; How REIT Shares Performed in 2020
- Family offices weathered Covid crunch but now want diversification ; Family offices bullish on Asia despite wider caution