October 24, 2020 SUBSCRIBE
PERSONAL FINANCE
- How to Play Defense on Your Debt – Even in an Economic Downturn
- UPS to Offer Employees a Way to Save for Emergencies ; 8 bank moves to make as soon as you’re unemployed ; That out-of-network ATM, should you choose to use cash during the pandemic, is still pretty expensive
- Expect More Moms to Sacrifice Careers
- Why Investors Are Pulling Money From Vanguard’s Index Funds ; How to Invest Like a Millionaire ; Investor Willingness To Pay For Advice On The Rise, Report Says
- Payday lending initiative aims to lower interest rates
- Keep your car running longer with this maintenance checklist
- Nonprofits benefit from charitable gifts from retirement funds ; Estate Planning In A Pandemic ; Here’s how to handle an unexpected windfall of money
HEALTHY AGING
- Cognitive Decline Meets COVID-19 Scams ; Genetic clues found for cognitive resilience to Alzheimer’s disease
- How to Be Happy (Not Bored!) in Retirement – Starting Today
- Toomey bill would allow use of retirement funds to pay for long-term care insurance
HEALTHCARE
- 4 healthcare storylines overshadowed by COVID-19
- Secure healthcare data as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month
- As sales dropped, some pharmacies turned to pet meds to stay open
- A wearable sensor to help ALS patients communicate
EDUCATION
- Personal finance platform teaches what K-12 schools missed
- Risk helps Harvard endowment return 7.3% for fiscal year
TECH
- Cybersecurity company finds hacker selling info on 186 million American voters ; Pfizer Suffers Huge Data Breach on Unsecured Cloud Storage
- IT leaders see biometrics and super apps as next digital transformation trends ; Quibi’s Quick End
- White House Finalizing New Regulations For AI
- Amazon Prime Day Hit $10.6 Billion In Sales, Analysts Say
- New T-Mobile Venture Fund to Support Young 5G Firms
- London crowned best city to study tech outside the US
RETIREMENT
- 3 Ways Dividend Aristocrats Can Enrich Your Retirement ; Pulled money from a 401(k) plan for an emergency? What it means for your taxes
- Can My Wife Take Social Security Retirement Benefits At 62 Then Spousal When I File? ; Six States Move Forward With Best Interest Rules For Annuities
- ‘Set and forget’ investors stick with target-date funds ; Record-keeping consolidation expected to continue
- Secure Act aims to boost the appeal of annuities in retirement plans ; Proposed Bill Would Give 403(b) Plan Sponsors Access to Open MEPs ; Hopes of greater diversity as DoL allows private equity in 401(k) plans
- Vail Resorts 401(k) Challenge Class is 8200 Strong, Court Told
PENSIONS
- The DOL’s ESG Proposal and DB Plans
- Teamsters Pension Trustees Sued Over Private Equity Investments
- JC Penney plans bankruptcy exit ; White House orders review of Delphi pension fund termination
- Pension risk transfers hit $4 billion in Q3 – report
INTERNATIONAL
- DC pension transfer volumes bounce back to pre-Covid levels as transfer times slow
- Regulator’s superfunds guidance brings pensions shake-up closer
- What do I need to do to retire at 55?
- COVID-19 is changing the way we think about aging and long-term care
- Retirees making pennies from savings accounts may want to take a look at annuities
- UK DB Plans’ Funded Ratio Falls to 91.4% in September ; Thousands dip into pension pot
MARKETS
- Financial stress rising in farm sector ; New unemployment claims dip slightly as economic strains persist ;Congress may not pass coronavirus relief deal until after Election Day, top negotiators say ; Yields hit four-month highs on fiscal stimulus hopes
- Wall Street still prefers bonds ; The Impact Of Today’s Low-Interest Rate Environment On Investors ; Investors Pump Billions into Biotech Startups, Pay Skyrocketing Prices
- Oil struggles to recover after US gasoline stocks build ; Natural Gas Preferred to Other Fossil Fuels, Says Survey, but Still Partisan Split
- How Well-Prepared Are Pension Funds for Climate Risk? ; Talking ’bout a revolution: the disruptive impact of ESG on wealth management ; Why and how investors should act on human rights ; Are pension reforms driving better ESG?
- Eurozone Government Borrowing Soars as Countries Seek to Cushion Covid-19’s Blow ; Bank of Israel leaves interest rate unchanged at 0.1% to increase bond purchases ; UK consumer sentiment falls by most since start of pandemic: GfK
ALTERNATIVES
- Advisor must refund $2.75M in commissions to settle alt sales case
- Big-Name Hedge Funds Raise Billions in Asia as Startups Struggle
- How unicorns helped venture capital get later, and bigger
- PayPal to let users pay for purchases using cryptocurrency ; The IRS Takes on Cryptocurrency-Funded Terrorists
- Rising vacancies, declining rents squeezing apartment REITs ; Rents Are Plunging in World’s Most Expensive Cities ; Why the future of the office has been put on hold
