February 3, 2021 SUBSCRIBE
PERSONAL FINANCE
- Consumers Hit Financially by the Pandemic Paid Higher Credit Union/Bank Fees ; The importance of having a rainy-day fund, and how to start one ; Finra zeroes in on online brokerage apps ; What Peloton taught me about financial planning ; Advisor Group and Cetera bond-rating outlooks show uncertainty amid optimism
- What Are Mutual Funds? ; Mutual fund CEOs on hits and misses of Budget 2021 ; Silver ETFs Surge as Reddit Traders Target Silver Futures
- Employees Want Help To Fully Understand Their Benefits ; 4 Things to Consider Before Letting Your Employees Work Abroad
- PPP loan forgiveness for small businesses: What’s eligible, when and how to apply ; Farm Bankruptcies During 2020
- Mortgage rate forecast: Have the deals peaked? ; Despite pandemic, Portland public housing contractor keeps churning out evictions
- Gas Tax increase gaining speed ; What you need to know this tax season ; Missing stimulus check money? How to claim the payment on your 2020 tax return
- Policy News That Could Shake Up Philanthropy ; 7 Questions to Ask to Strengthen Your Estate Planning ; Why You Should Think About Your Digital Assets Before You Die
HEALTHY AGING
- Dementia is not normal aging ; When Mental Health and Aging Collide
- Older adults without family or friends lag in race to get vaccines
- Elder care, wireless AI, and the Internet of Medical Things
HEALTHCARE
- Computer model makes strides in search for COVID-19 treatments ; U.S. nurses are coming out of retirement to administer vaccines
- Get the most out of your doctor visit
- Excess mortality rates early in pandemic highest among Blacks, study finds
- Using wearables to transform cancer care – and better equip clinicians ; Predicting cardiovascular risk with Artificial Intelligence
- Hospitals were underpaid $75.8B by Medicare, Medicaid in 2019, survey says
EDUCATION
- Gift to help Ball State financial literacy initiative ; Education Committee Hears of Need for Youth Financial Literacy ; Credit union CEO has passion for teaching financial literacy
- Students’ mental health deteriorating during pandemic ; How to properly save money for kids private grade school that needs to be paid once a year?
- Clearing the path to higher education for those in need ; American higher education must assume some blame for today
TECH
- Data Leak Hits Nissan North America ; Data breach compromised info of 1.6M in Washington who sought unemployment benefits ; Personal data breaches decline as hackers focus on companies ; Huge labor department printing mistake results in data breach
- Is Technological Progress Slowing Down?
- GameStop short squeeze fuels new stock-market services tracking Reddit messages
- How venture capital sees Fintech now ; 6 Fintech Executives Give Their Predictions for 2021
- Venture Capital Investment in US Hit Record $156 Billion in 2020
RETIREMENT
- Young Adults Face Uncertain Road to Retirement ; Do Retirees Need A ‘Living Wage’ – And What Does That Mean? ; Why the GameStop frenzy may hurt retirees along with hedge funds ; Will GameStop Activism Ruin Your Retirement? ; 9 Tips For Paying Down Debt In Retirement
- Why Creating Income Solutions in Target Date Funds is So Important ; When does it make more sense to contribute to a Traditional 401k rather than a Roth 401k? ; Can creditors get my money if I roll my 401(k) to an IRA?
- TSP returns keep inching down in first month of 2021
- Defendants are Not Obligated to Cover Annuity Payments in the Case of Carrier Insolvency
- Firefighters Face Unique Challenges with Deferred Comp ; Penn will pay $13 million to settle class action lawsuit over excessive retirement plan fees
- No More Missing Pieces: US Department of Labor Issues Guidance on Missing Participants ; Puerto Rico Government Plan-to-Private Plan Rollovers Allowed
PENSIONS
- Three Years After ‘CalPERS’: Still No Flood of Opt-Outs
- Rep. Scott Campbell: Vermont’s Pension Problem
- Letter: Pension bond deserves open public scrutiny
- Kentucky legislature: What’s ahead for the rest of the 2021 session
- AIG to pay New York $12M for unlicensed pension risk transfer business
INTERNATIONAL
- Can You Rely on ONLY Your CPP Pension and Retire With ZERO Savings?
- How Loan Apps Weaponise Your Data to Make You Pay
- Time to shine: Is active management gearing up for a comeback?
- Australia’s Failing Pension Funds Prepare to Be Publicly Shamed
- Why Modi govt will be spending less on defence pensions next year
- GSIS study shows need to allot P800B yearly pension for military, uniformed personnel for 20 years
- UK firms sponsoring DB plans comprise big chunk of profit warnings
- Factors that Affect the Pension Fund and Income
- A new ‘baby bonus’ is a bad idea
- Retirement savers still free to sabotage themselves ; Retirement fund harmonisation: your questions answered
MARKETS
- CBO sees rapid growth recovery, labor force returning to pre-pandemic level by 2022 ; Fed’s Kashkari not ‘fazed’ by rush of stock market speculation ; Yields ease on expectations for lower debt supply
- Robinhood’s CEO Vlad Tenev ‘to be hauled before Congress to testify on GameStop trades’ ; Silver-tongued Redditors drive up prices ; Gensler Faces Big Challenge in Tackling GameStop’s Wild Ride ; Reddit Revolt Shifts National Conversation to State of Financial Markets
- Tighter Oil Markets Send Oil Prices Higher ; Wintry Weather Lifts Natural Gas Prices
- BOE Likely to Embrace Negative Interest Without Using Them ; Bank of Canada keeping interest rates low during ‘uneven’ recovery ; Fiscal Deficit Pegged At 9.5% Of Gross Domestic Product: Finance Minister ; China’s growth is likely to moderate in the next few months, Goldman Sachs says ; Russia Suffers Smaller Economic Slump Than Peers in 2020 ; A month on, post-Brexit ‘teething problems’ hit UK-EU trade ; India doubles healthcare spending, opens up insurance in ‘get well soon’ budget
ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
- Sustainable investments face tougher times after 2020 boom ; Clinton County family focuses on environmental friendly farming ; The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021 ; Biden administration’s green pivot makes future fuzzy for Louisiana oil and gas ; Aggressive Tax Planning Could be the Next ESG Plank as Norway SWF Digs Deeper ; Corporate bonds could offer ‘untapped potential’ for sustainable pension investments
- SPACs Looking Spectacular in Actively Managed ETF Wrappers
- Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught ; Why hedge funds are more likely to cause a market crisis than Robinhood’s GameStop traders
- The Pressure Is on Private Equity To Take ESG Seriously
- Top 5 Crypto Investment Scams of All Time ; SEC Files Charges in $11 Million Crypto Scam Shilled by Steven Seagal ; Ukraine plans huge cryptocurrency mining data centers next to nuclear power plants
- Landlord Sues to Fight Los Angeles Commercial Eviction ; What CRE Investors Can Expect from Debt, Equity Sources Right Now ; Millennials are changing the luxury real estate market ; Some co-working spaces are closing due to the pandemic, but this one just opened
- Sustainability – An Unstoppable Megatrend For Family Offices