Retirement

getty Here’s the problem. According to a 2019 paper by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), the median tenure of all wage and salary workers ages 25 or older is only about five years. Don’t blame the gig economy. EBRI says this tenure has remained relatively constant over the past 35 years. That’s well before

A teacher awaiting retirement getty A round-up of reports across the country. Florida: ending pensions for new employees? From Tampa Bay Times, “After years of discussions about the tricky issue of overhauling Florida’s retirement system for government employees, a Senate committee this week approved a proposal that would shut future workers out of a traditional

By Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue Editor NEW YORK, USA – JANUARY 30: A GameStop store in Manhattan (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via … [+] Getty Images) Anadolu Agency via Getty Images You’ve undoubtedly heard about the recent stock market frenzy over Gamestop GME and other so-called “meme stocks” that skyrocketed and then plummeted. That’s

This article is part of a series. Click here to read the previous articles. Another way to use life insurance as part of a lifetime plan is to view the death benefit as the psychological support needed to purchase a life-only income annuity as part of an integrated plan combining investments, whole life insurance, and

This article is part of a series. Click here to read the previous articles. Scenario 4 also uses term life insurance, but the difference is that partial annuitization takes place with a joint life income annuity at the retirement date. The use of an annuity allows for a slight increase in the distribution rate from

Ask Larry Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about what factors can potentially reduce benefits for a surviving spouse, whether cost of living allowances also increase spousal benefits and whether a public pension will affect a spouse’s own retirement benefits. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder

cash getty The continued message of the Biden administration is this: the passage of the American Rescue Plan, their name for the $1.9 trillion spending bill, is vital for the country to make it through the pandemic: in addition to aid for the unemployed, health insurance purchase subsidies, food stamp boosts and the like, the

Estate planning handwriting sign on the sheet. getty If you have been thinking about making large gifts to take advantage of the current $11,700,000 lifetime federal estate tax exemption, you have probably been contemplating a spousal lifetime access trust, commonly known as a SLAT.   A SLAT is an irrevocable trust that you create for the

Protect against property value risk with a reverse mortgage getty Part of the motivation to be a homeowner is the opportunity to accumulate growing equity in a home. Equity growth, however, is heavily influenced by market changes over which the owner has little control. House prices appreciate much more in some areas than in others,

Some issues with Social Security can create problems when enrolling in Medicare. getty If your time for Medicare enrollment is approaching, just imagine being shut out when you try. That’s a real possibility and it happens more frequently than it should. Here’s a real-life, sad story. Helena’s 65th birthday came in August 2020. When she tried