12/1/2015 - More retirement plan recordkeepers offering mobile apps (Benefits Pro)

  The retirement provider industry lags the larger financial services sector when it comes to advances in mobile platforms, but plan providers are quickly closing the gap, according to one consultancy.Corporate Insights, a New York-based consultancy, tracks the technology and communication innovations of 18 of the largest record keepers in the space.The firm’s most recent Retirement… Read more 12/1/2015 - More retirement plan recordkeepers offering mobile apps (Benefits Pro)

11/30/2015 - Honda Lifts Retirement Age as Japan Inc. Copes With Aging (Bloomberg)

Honda Motor Co. plans to shake up job terms next fiscal year and lift its retirement age by five years to 65, making the carmaker one of Japan Inc.’s biggest companies to take action in coping with the nation’s aging demographics.Other proposed changes applying to about 40,000 employees at Honda and five of its group… Read more 11/30/2015 - Honda Lifts Retirement Age as Japan Inc. Copes With Aging (Bloomberg)

11/30/2015 - Graying Japan Tries to Embrace the Golden Years (The Wall Street Journal)

At an office-building construction site in the center of Japan’s capital, 67-year-old Kenichi Saito effortlessly stacks 44-pound boards with the ease of a man half his age.His secret: a bendable exoskeleton hugging his waist and thighs, with sensors attached to his skin. The sensors detect when Mr. Saito’s muscles start to move and direct the… Read more 11/30/2015 - Graying Japan Tries to Embrace the Golden Years (The Wall Street Journal)

11/30/2015 - Honda Lifts Retirement Age to 65 as Japan Inc. Copes With Aging

Honda Motor Co. plans to shake up job terms next fiscal year and lift its retirement age by five years to 65, making the carmaker one of Japan Inc.’s biggest companies to take action in coping with the nation’s aging demographics. Read the full article at Bloomberg.

11/30/2015 - It’s Time to Change the Way We Talk About Aging

No one wants to be labeled as “demented” —so why do we still use the term? We should no longer, according to the American Psychiatric Association, which has replaced “dementia” with the broader, more accurate and less pejorative term “neurocognitive disorder” in the latest diagnostic manual. With time, “dementia” may go the way of antiquated… Read more 11/30/2015 - It’s Time to Change the Way We Talk About Aging

11/29/2015 - Behavioral Economist Richard Thaler on the Key to Retirement Savings (The Wall Street Journal)

Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists’ greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard—figuring out how much to save—and requires self-control. And these are two of the most important things that are left out of traditional economics. The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they… Read more 11/29/2015 - Behavioral Economist Richard Thaler on the Key to Retirement Savings (The Wall Street Journal)

11/29/2015 - Behavioral Economist Richard Thaler on the Key to Retirement Savings

Richard Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and author of “Misbehaving,” a new book about the creation of behavioral economics, credits this once-maligned offshoot of economic science with helping millions of Americans save for retirement. But he is deeply concerned about the many others: those who, for whatever reason, choose… Read more 11/29/2015 - Behavioral Economist Richard Thaler on the Key to Retirement Savings

11/29/2015 - How Technology Will Transform Retirement

As people live longer, and spend more time in retirement, the challenge will be to get more out of those years. How do you find a rewarding second career? How do you stay close with friends and family? How do you maintain independence and mobility? How do you embrace new experiences? The equally simple answer:… Read more 11/29/2015 - How Technology Will Transform Retirement

11/27/2015 - Financial Abuse of the Elderly: Sometimes Unnoticed, Always Predatory (The New York Times)

With 10,000 people turning 65 every day for the next decade, a growing pool of retirees are susceptible to such exploitation. As many as one in 20 older adults said they were financially mistreated in the recent past, according to a study financed by the Justice Department. Traditionally, such exploitation, whether by family, friends or… Read more 11/27/2015 - Financial Abuse of the Elderly: Sometimes Unnoticed, Always Predatory (The New York Times)

11/27/2015 - Student Debt in America: Lend With a Smile, Collect With a Fist (The New York Times)

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the number of active borrowers enrolled in college has declined to roughly nine million today from about 12 million in 2010. Yet the total amount of outstanding debt continues to increase, because many borrowers are not paying back their older loans. Read the full article in… Read more 11/27/2015 - Student Debt in America: Lend With a Smile, Collect With a Fist (The New York Times)