11/20/2015 - Fidelity Joins Growing Field of Automated Financial Advice (The New York Times)

Fidelity Investments is flirting with the investment robots. Fidelity is testing its own automated investing platform, which it is calling Fidelity Go. The move puts the company into head-to-head competition with so-called robo-adviser start-ups like Betterment and Wealthfront, as well as traditional players like Vanguard and Schwab that recently began offering similar services. The Fidelity details are listed… Read more 11/20/2015 - Fidelity Joins Growing Field of Automated Financial Advice (The New York Times)

11/20/2015 - Small Residences for the Elderly Provide More Personal, Homelike Care

For greater warmth and nurturing, seniors are turning to small residences and privately owned care homes that are often unmarked in residential neighborhoods. They are usually newer, sometimes cheaper, and generally offer more customized care than most nursing homes. Read the full article at The New York Times.

11/20/2015 - Not Your Mother's Retirement Home

Every year, Jerry Myroup travels to Jamaica with his wife to rock out to the band Little Feat. They like the fan appreciation resort weekends so much that they started wondering how they could live like this all the time, for the rest of their lives. Could they actually rock till they drop? “It all… Read more 11/20/2015 - Not Your Mother's Retirement Home

11/19/2015 - New Social Security Strategies for Couples: The New Rulebook (The Wall Street Journal)

Congress recently put an end to a pair of Social Security claiming strategies that couples have used to add tens of thousands of dollars to their lifetime retirement incomes. Now, spouses who want to maximize their benefits will need to become familiar with the next-best claiming strategies. Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal.

11/18/2015 - Changes in Sense of Humor May Presage Dementia

New research suggests that shifts in what a person finds funny can herald imminent changes in the brain—possibly presaging certain types of dementia. Read the full article at The Wall Street Journal.

11/18/2015 - In retirement, seniors reinvent themselves as volunteers (The Washington Post)

According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, 18.7 million people over 55, or more than a quarter of the total, do volunteer work. They contributed about 3 billion hours of service every year between 2008 and 2010. The information collected by the agency, which supervises AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America and other service initiatives,… Read more 11/18/2015 - In retirement, seniors reinvent themselves as volunteers (The Washington Post)

11/17/2015 - For Women, Income Inequality Continues Into Retirement (NPR)

Poverty does not treat men and women equally, especially in old age. Women 65 years old and older who are living in poverty outnumber men in those circumstances by more than 2 to 1. And these women are likely to face the greatest deprivation as they become older and more frail. Read the full article in NPR.

11/17/2015 - Bad Debt Collectors and Their Prey (The New York Times)

All states have laws that are intended to prevent debt collectors from driving families into destitution. But those laws, some of which date to the distant past, have been rendered ineffective by debt collectors using new and devious ways to win court judgments that allow them to seize debtors’ paychecks or bank accounts. Last week,… Read more 11/17/2015 - Bad Debt Collectors and Their Prey (The New York Times)

11/17/2015 - How Boomers Can Seek Allies Among Younger Workers

Ageism is a fact of life today, mostly felt by older generations, but in reverse by some members of younger generations, too. Alice Fisher, who worked in New York State Sen. Liz Krueger’s office for eight years, got an inside view of the anxieties and struggles Krueger’s older constituents faced on issues of housing, health… Read more 11/17/2015 - How Boomers Can Seek Allies Among Younger Workers

11/17/2015 - For Women, Income Inequality Continues Into Retirement

Poverty does not treat men and women equally, especially in old age. Women 65 years old and older who are living in poverty outnumber men in those circumstances by more than 2 to 1. And these women are likely to face the greatest deprivation as they become older and more frail. Read the full article at National… Read more 11/17/2015 - For Women, Income Inequality Continues Into Retirement