Category: Financial -Landing 2013

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11/26/2013 - Gender Gap Holds in Retirement Plan Participation (EBRI)

by on December 2, 2013 6:15 pm
A gender gap persists in retirement plan participation among full-time, full-year workers—and it favors women, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). While the EBRI analysis of data from the 2013 March Current Population Survey found that female wage and salary workers ages 21–64 were found to participate in… Read more 11/26/2013 - Gender Gap Holds in Retirement Plan Participation (EBRI)
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11/25/2013 - Nine surprising Social Security statistics (USA Today)

by on November 25, 2013 9:24 pm
We’re all familiar with Social Security — with what it is and how it might help us in retirement. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about it, some of which is important and some simply interesting. A great place to find data on the program is from the horse’s mouth — the website… Read more 11/25/2013 - Nine surprising Social Security statistics (USA Today)
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11/24/2013 - Retirement planning is now a family affair (Investment News)

by on November 25, 2013 9:15 pm
In the years before the Great Recession, it wasn’t unusual to see a happy couple tooling down the highway in a luxury recreational vehicle with a bumper sticker that joyfully proclaimed: “We’re spending our kids’ inheritance.” Fast forward to today. The RV is probably parked in the couple’s backyard, and their adult kids — and… Read more 11/24/2013 - Retirement planning is now a family affair (Investment News)
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11/22/2013 - Blackrock: Attitudes impact retirement savings (LifeHealthPro)

by on November 25, 2013 8:29 pm
How Americans feel about saving for retirement affects their actions and success as savers. That is one of the key findings of BlackRock’s annual Retirement Survey, released Friday. The research reveals that the most successful retirement savers have certain psychological and emotional attitudes related to saving that drive them to put more money away for… Read more 11/22/2013 - Blackrock: Attitudes impact retirement savings (LifeHealthPro)
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11/22/2013 - Expanding Social Security (New York Times)

by on November 22, 2013 7:44 pm
For many years there has been one overwhelming rule for people who wanted to be considered serious inside the Beltway. It was this: You must declare your willingness to cut Social Security in the name of “entitlement reform.” It wasn’t really about the numbers, which never supported the notion that Social Security faced an acute… Read more 11/22/2013 - Expanding Social Security (New York Times)
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11/21/2013 - Work, Women and Caregiving (New York Times)

by on November 22, 2013 7:40 pm
Trying to hold onto a job while caring for a family member is a tough juggling act. Caregivers sometimes have to arrive late or leave early, cut back to part-time work, and decline travel or promotions. For women, these competing responsibilities may prove particularly perilous, a study recently published in the Journal of Applied Gerontology… Read more 11/21/2013 - Work, Women and Caregiving (New York Times)
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11/20/2013 - Fake It Till You’ve Saved It? (Wall Street Journal)

by on November 22, 2013 5:45 pm
Having a good attitude about saving for retirement turns out to be key to socking more money away, according to a poll of 1,011 Americans conducted for BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. Read the full article at The Wall Street Journal.
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11/19/2013 - You Plan Your Retirement, Then You Get the Health Bill (New York Times)

by on November 22, 2013 5:43 pm
JEFF STRACK, a 61-year-old sales manager in Charlotte, N.C., enjoys his work and is in good health. But the prospect of paying for health costs after he retires weighs on him. Mr. Strack hasn’t decided yet when he’ll stop working full time. But he doesn’t expect any retiree health coverage from his employer, which now… Read more 11/19/2013 - You Plan Your Retirement, Then You Get the Health Bill (New York Times)
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11/16/2013 - Caught in a Revolving Door of Unemployment (New York Times)

by on November 18, 2013 5:23 pm
On a cold October morning, just after the federal government shutdown came to an end, Jenner Barrington-Ward headed into court in Boston to declare bankruptcy. It took weeks to put the paperwork together, given that her papers and belongings were scattered across the country — there was a broken-down car and boxes of paperwork in… Read more 11/16/2013 - Caught in a Revolving Door of Unemployment (New York Times)
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11/15/2013 - The rise of 'partial retirement' (MarketWatch)

by on November 18, 2013 5:15 pm
Partial retirement wasn’t all that common in 1960. More than 50 years later, a substantial percentage of people hold a “bridge” job before they stop working for good. In fact, 20% of workers between the ages of 65 and 67—and analyzed in a recent University of Michigan Retirement Research Center study—are partially retired, up from… Read more 11/15/2013 - The rise of 'partial retirement' (MarketWatch)