
August 22, 2019
PERSONAL FINANCE, FINANCIAL WELLNESS, ANNUITIES, TAXES, CHARITY & FINANCIAL LITERACY
- How to get rid of property taxes? Lawmaker looks to retirement income.
- Recession fears should prompt you to revisit your investment strategies
- Before You Claim Social Security, Do a Savings Checkup
- Deferred Income Annuities: Loved by Economists, Ignored by Investors ; What is Annuitization and When Should You Do It? ; Two insurers to pay $117000 to Pennsylvanians after major investment scam
- Acquisitions and Closings Mean Fewer Robo-Advisors
- Back on campus, students confront a challenging housing market
- Poor People Are Already Financially Literate. They Just Need More Money
- Nonprofits Face Collateral Damage from Sometimes Unsavory Benefactors
HEALTHCARE & WELLNESS
- Employers’ Health Plan Costs Could Rise 6% in 2020 ; Consumers Have Positive View of Healthcare, Concerns Over Price
- Close to one-third of healthcare employees have never received cybersecurity training, report shows
- Could next year be the beginning of the end of traditional employer-sponsored health insurance?
- Medicaid Enrollment and Capitation Rates
TECH, MEDIA & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Cyberthreats Against Financial Services Up 56% ; What Cybersecurity Trends Should We Expect From The Rest Of 2019? ; Cybersecurity incidents down at federal agencies, no ‘major’ ones
- Georgia Supreme Court: Are data breach victims entitled to damages?
- Facebook unveils tool that allows users to curb targeted advertising
- Square just had its best month ever for Cash App downloads, analyst says
- Uber’s own numbers show why investors shouldn’t believe in its vision
401k, 403b, 457b, NONQUALIFIED, STATE-RUN PLANS & LITIGATION
- Fidelity Says Number of 401(k) Millionaires Hits Record High ; These 4 factors explain why 401(k) balances are so far below their potential
- States moving to DC pension saw higher taxpayer costs, less retirement security: report
- Charles Schwab Wins Significant Pro-Arbitration ERISA Decision ; Schlichter Settlement Highlights the Costs of Litigation
- White House reviewing DOL proposal on 401(k) plan electronic document disclosures
PENSIONS
- Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?
- Ballot measures would make PERS problem worse
- California pension fund wants to join Facebook lawsuit
- Nearly 40% of education spending consumed by pension costs
- Pouring pensions into potholes is too great a risk
- Joplin council appoints residents to stump for sales tax boost for pension fund
- Major Restructuring of CalPERS Investment Committee Could Become a Reality ; CalPERS shifts $150 billion as part new strategic asset allocation
INTERNATIONAL
- UK DB Plans’ Deficit Widens to £90.7 billion in July
- Increasing the state pension age to 75 is a terrible, divisive idea
- Nine million workers over 45 are sleep walking into retirement ‘baffled by pensions’
- Pension liabilities expected to rise as 2019 sees fewer deaths reported – LCP
- 40% of Canadians largely use TFSAs as simple savings accounts: Ipsos poll
- Super Fund hangs out its shingle
MARKETS
- Headed to Recession? Keep an Eye on Business Investment
- White House denies it’s considering payroll tax cut to stimulate economy ; Execs starting to worry about tariffs’ effects on consumers
- AAA says US gasoline prices dropping despite record demand ; Oil Steadies as US-China Trade Progress Allays Demand Concerns
- The radical plan for taming capitalism: Give everyone a share of Wall Street
- When multi-factor investing turns into an endurance test ; Knowledge, transparency cited as challenges to greater CIT adoption
- Switzerland Has a New Way to Impose World’s Lowest Interest Rate
- Central banks in Asia are cutting rates to prop up their economies — but that may not be enough ; How central banks might deal with the next downturn
- The real consequence of a no-deal Brexit is not short-term shock – it’s a long recession
ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
- Former Broker Charged In South Florida Alternative Investment Scheme
- Hedge fund performance forces prime brokers to rethink risk ; Hedge funds are making millions off Europe’s killer heat waves ; Yen Rally Catches Attention of Hedge-Fund Managers
- The Private Equity Tool Distorting Returns ; Policy Makers Should Take a Look at Private Equity
- Cryptocurrency salaries are a bad flashback to company scrip ; Dark web dealer made to forfeit millions in cryptocurrency gets 70 months in the slammer ; Facebook reportedly faces EU antitrust scrutiny over its Libra cryptocurrency
- Mortgage REITs were doing great — until the yield curve inverted
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