PERSONAL FINANCE
- Decisive corporate leadership today will build employees’ financial resilience
- This Is the Average 401(k) Balance. How Does Yours Compare? ; Millions of baby boomers are getting caught in the country’s broken retirement system
- Forget what you’ve heard. Here are the new rules for post-pandemic retirement.
- Higher education, students face tough decisions for fall semester ; Higher Education for the Future ; Over 25 universities sued after coronavirus-prompted changes ; Elected Officials Address NYC College Students’ Pandemic Concerns
- Time for an Emergency Charity Stimulus ; Nonprofits need congressional action to continue our life-changing work
HEALTHY AGING
- COVID-19 has some older workers rethinking retirement ; Coronavirus threatening your retirement? Here’s some strategies to fight back
HEALTHCARE
- The lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our healthcare delivery system
- Coronavirus opens door for expanded use of artificial intelligence at hospitals ; Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps
- Robo-adviser offers free advice to frontline NHS staff
TECH
- Cybersecurity Lobbying Spending Mounts as Privacy, Security Laws Take Shape
- Georgia Girl Scouts earn badges virtually through pandemic ; Shareholder Virtual Meetings Fraught By Problems, Contend Institutional Investors
- Timely reminder about who bears responsibility for cloud security
- A turbulent stock market is a boon to investing-focused fintech startups
- Should super-apps share the spoils with restaurants?
- What to do after stepping out of the home office
- Worried About CCPA? Devalue Your Company’s Payments Data ; European virus tracing apps highlight battle for privacy
- Don’t Regulate Artificial Intelligence: Starve It
RETIREMENT
- Best time to retire: How about never? ; Interest Rate Risk Comes to the Fore
- DC Plan Participants Appeared Quite Content… Last Year ; Employers ease access to 401(k) savings with hardship withdrawals, loans ; Pandemic May Stall Implementation of Certain DC Plan Decisions
- Why Target-Date Funds Still Make Sense For Retirement Investors ; Current Volatility Shows Weaknesses in TDFs ;Hey, fund companies — Half your potential customers are totally baffled by your target date funds
- Coronavirus pushing association plans to side
- How to fix the retirement system
- Lawsuit Says Host International Discriminated Against Tipped Employees in 401(k) ; ADP Inc. Sued Over Fees in 401(k) Plan Covering 114000 People
PENSIONS
- Corporate pension plan funding ratios increase in April ; Local governments will spend more on debt, pensions – Moody’s ; Multiemployer pension plans’ troubles worsening due to COVID-19: Milliman
- Denver Health Retirees Ordered To Repay $11 Million In Pension Benefits
- Illinois’ True Retirement Cost is 58% of the Budget
- Former Pension Insurer Employee Pleads Guilty to Bribery Scheme
INTERNATIONAL
- More UK funds likely to steer toward OCIOs
- Trouble with pensions is a lack of innovation
- Pensioner ‘scammed into leaving bank card on doorstep’
MARKETS
- Presidential Tweets Drive Volatility in Interest-Rate Options
- Central banks prop up fund industry with $100bn injection
- Stocks Owned by Passive Funds Fared Worse in the Selloff. The Question: What’s the Reason?
- Oil Jumps On Expectations Of Slowing Inventory Builds ; Rich Nations Must Make Pandemic Recovery Plans Green: Global Investors
- Endowments, foundations hit hardest in Q1 ; Even with budget shortfalls, museums avoid tapping into endowments ; Oil price crash threatens Texas university endowments
- Renewing the Focus on Resilience and the Future of Cities ; UK Consumers Are Gloomiest Since 2012: YouGov/CEBR ;Ireland taps wealth fund for coronavirus support ; World’s Oldest Central Bank Hits Legal Blockade Amid Crisis ; How Ordinary US Investors Own a Piece of China ; 4 nations’ GDP to plunge
ALTERNATIVES
- Look at Hedge Funds’ Long-Term Performance, Not ‘Best Ideas,’ Study Concludes ; Rocky market giving hedge funds a leg up for investors ; Alternative data being used by more hedge fund managers – survey ; Credit opportunities are available, but investors are taking a cautious approach
- Private Equity Managers Dramatically Reverse Return Predictions
- Infrastructure’s defensive role under scrutiny
- Ghost blogging platform servers hacked to mine cryptocurrency ; Family Offices Likely to Invest in Bitcoin; Don’t Count on Banks – Coinbase Analyst
- Real estate industry being deemed non-essential is causing problems ; Real estate industry could be permanently changed, even after pandemic passes ; Zillow Forecasts a Dip in Home Prices, Rebounding By Next Year ; Working Real Estate Investing Into Your Retirement Strategy
- Rise of the ‘virtual family office’; Ultra-Rich Families With Cash on Hand Pile Into Private Debt
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.