Apr 17, 2018 | 401k, financial plan, Markey Volatility, Pension Parameters, Retirement Plans, Risk and Rewards
MARKET UPDATE: FIRST QUARTER 2018 The first quarter was a wake-up call to all investors enjoying an extended period of higher stock prices, low volatility, and stable low interest rates. After multiple record setting stock market highs in January, the long awaited...
Mar 8, 2018 | 401k, Asset Allocation, Money and Aging, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality, Risk and Rewards
In an excellent piece from Money, headlined Five Questions To Ask When You’re Choosing A Financial Adviser, Sallie Krawcheck CEO of ELLEVEST writes about a recent survey of 1,000 women and 1,000 men about money. The survey found that women are way less satisfied with...
Apr 26, 2017 | 401k, Do You Know, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality, Risk and Rewards
“A majority of professors fear they could outlive their retirement savings, while administrative employees are more concerned about shorter-term issues: paying off debt and meeting their monthly household expenses,” writes Doug Lederman in an insidehighered.com piece...
Mar 9, 2017 | 401k, Asset Allocation, Do You Know, IRA, Money and Aging, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality, Risk and Rewards
“While most Americans realize retirement will be the biggest purchase of their lifetime—costing 2.5 times the cost of an average home—81% say they do not know how much money they will need to fund their retirement,” writes Rebecca Moore in a superb article for...
Feb 27, 2017 | 401k, Boomer Retirement, News, Planning for Longevity, Retirement Plans, Retirement Reality, Risk and Rewards
“Lost in the flurry of [Trump Administration] activity is the pressing question of how to deal with the American retirement crisis,” writes Suzanne Woolley in a bloomberg.com piece. “The median working-age family had $5,000 saved for retirement in 2013, according...
Nov 4, 2016 | 401k, Money and Aging, Pension Parameters, Planning for Longevity, Retirement Plans, Risk and Rewards
You would think that most investors possess a basic understanding of bonds, but in fact a fairly large major of them apparently do not. In an excellent businessinsider.com piece, Bob Bryan examines the issue: “There are two ways to measure the value of a bond. The...
