
August 12, 2019
PERSONAL FINANCE, FINANCIAL WELLNESS, ANNUITIES, TAXES & FINANCIAL LITERACY
- Generation X Faces Tough Finances in Sandwich Years
- Who’s Helped By Federal Interest Rates Cut? Start With Millennials ; The overspending millennial: How to overcome your FOMO ; Got FOMO? Americans Spend More in Summer
- IRS delivers ‘game changer’ for fee-based annuities ; Annuity Suitability Working Group Tries to Get Out of the Parking Lot
- How Financial Services Companies Can Better Serve Millennials ; Does Financial Wellness Even Work?
- Estimating Your Retirement Income ; Spending safely in retirement: Why it is important
- Economics for Educators Institute prepares educators to teach financial literacy ; The number of older Americans filing for bankruptcy has surged by up to 300%
- 84% of borrowers say student loans are tanking their retirement savings
- Is Your Local Real Estate Market On The Rise? Eight Signs To Watch For ; Should I refinance my mortgage while rates are low?
- Finra Panel Rules Against Schwab
- Warning donors about possible charitable donation scams
HEALTHCARE & WELLNESS
- 50 years ago healthcare was a gig economy leader. So, what happened?
- CEOs willing to pay millions to secure cybersecurity talent ; What are the cybersecurity challenges facing the healthcare sector?
- New fears about drug prices ; Where Tourism Brings Pricey Health Care, Locals Fight Back
- Your Apple Watch Could Soon Detect Early Signs of Dementia
- Wearable devices and the revolution of cardiology via continuous care, remote monitoring
- The Economics Of Biologic Drugs: A Further Response To Bach et al.
- Largest health system investors in hedge funds, 2019
TECH, MEDIA & SOCIAL MEDIA
- New York Fire Department warns 10000 patients about potential data breach ; Credit Card Data Breaches: How to Handle Them ; IBM-Ponemon Study Highlights Rising Cost of a Data Breach
- The Black Hat cybersecurity conference app has a cybersecurity problem ; Turns out your office printer is a huge cybersecurity risk
- Not All Robocall Blocking Apps on Your iPhone Can be Trusted
- Roku users surge past 30 million ; Tiny Roku Fends Off Amazon and Thrives by Selling Ads
- Amazon investigating claims its Chinese supplier used illegal child labor to make Alexa devices
401k, 403b, 457b, NONQUALIFIED, STATE-RUN PLANS & LITIGATION
- Privacy: The Next Retirement Plan Frontier
- What Is the Most Accurate Participation Rate for Retirement Plans?
- Trading in 401(k)s spiked in trade-dispute-fueled market swoon
- Vendor Fees: The Importance Of RFPs ; Report Says Rocky Road Ahead for Recordkeepers
- Texas 403(b) law causes adviser concern over investor protection ; Kaleida Health ERISA lawsuit can proceed, judge rules ; Feds mulling involvement in CalSavers lawsuit
PENSIONS
- Pension Agency Paints Grim Picture for Multiemployer Pension Program ; Retired Teamsters wait for Congress to act on wobbly pension fund
- Underfunded Public Pensions Put Future Taxpayers on the Hook ; NIRS: No money saved for 4 states that shifted to DC from DB plans ; Lower Interest Rates Continue to Plague DB Plan Funded Status
- NM pensions could see sweeping changes
- The MTA wants to pull pensions from LIRR overtime abusers
- Bills would adjust michigan pension plans
- Alabama Pension Funds Star in IPic Theater Bankruptcy
- Public employees file suit to overturn lawmakers’ pension changes
- NYC Pension Funds Beats Target, Returns 7.24% in 2019
- Oklahoma Police reports 4.24% return for fiscal year
- With California’s Public Pensions, Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
- Sweeney Supports Ban on Public Pension Investments in Gun Industry
- Unions approve new contract that averts strike at GE Healthcare
- Pastor Triumphs Over Pa. Church Congregants’ ERISA Suit
INTERNATIONAL
- Removing the ‘motherhood penalty’ from pensions
- Brazil pension reform debate expected to widen in Senate
- Denmark Hits Pensions With Tax Fraud Claims In $2B Row
- Canadian Defined Benefit Pension Plans Post Modest Gains In Q2 2019
- Household savings rate in SA actually zero
MARKETS
- Wholesale inflation dead in the water, PPI shows ; Consumer Confidence Drops Most in 10 Months ; US Recession Odds Climb as Economists Cut Growth Estimates
- US yield curve sends strongest recession warning since 2007 ; The Non-Weirdness of Negative Interest Rates ; Explaining the ‘New Normal’ for Interest Rates
- Bitcoin and Gold Are Monuments To Irrationality
- Oil Rebounds From Near 2019 Lows ; US natural gas demand is at a record – and prices keep dropping ; Gasoline prices are down another five cents a gallon
- Japan’s GDP thumps forecasts on robust consumer, business sectors
- China Goes Big on Commodities Purchase Amid Shifting Trade War
- UK Economy Shrinks as Brexit Uncertainty Soars
ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
- Advisers may not be equipped to help clients navigate private markets
- A $30 Billion Exodus Puts Hedge Funds for the Masses to the Test ; Hedge Fund Managers With ‘Skin in the Game’ Outperform —But They’re Also Less Likely to Take Your Money
- Debt deals dress up unusual private equity assets ; Young Turks: Experts look into private equity deal challenges ; CalPERS considers board confidentiality rules ahead of private equity rollout
- Why do Crypto-Related Surveys in the US Paint Different Pictures? ; Congress takes an interest in cryptocurrency — what could possibly go wrong? ; More States Add Cryptocurrency Twist to Marketplace Sales Tax Laws; Serious Security Warning Issued For World’s Biggest Bitcoin And Crypto Exchange, Binance
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