Getty We’re in the midst of Medicare’s annual Open Enrollment season, which runs from October 15 through December 7. The decisions made during Open Enrollment are some of the key retirement financial decisions. Surveys show that even the affluent worry that retirement medical expenses will dissipate their wealth. Making shrewd decisions about Medicare coverage is
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New plan finder Screenshot The Open Enrollment Period is officially on so we must all use the new Medicare Plan Finder. In the month since its introduction, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made some changes and added information. Here’s an update on how the Plan Finder works now. Drug costs still very problematic
Our healthcare landlord Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI) is officially back. This 6% dividend has upside once again. We are about to receive our first payout raise since early 2018, which ends our seven-quarter drought in which the big dividend was paid but not raised. I say “drought” partially in jest because OHI yielded a fat
Thanks to the financial rewards offered by the SEC, CFTC, DOJ, IRS and other whistleblower programs, trustees and pension boards today—for the first time—have a fiduciary obligation to report wrongdoing to regulators and law enforcement. If they don’t, they may be shortchanging beneficiaries and participants. It is well settled law that trustees, pension boards
FILE – In this May 20, 2019 file photo, Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot speaks during her … [+] inauguration ceremony in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Young, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS Yesterday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot gave her speech to the city council on the 2020 budget, in which she announced that she had closed the gaping
null Getty Today, the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program published a report, “The Time is Now: Next Steps Toward a More Secure Retirement for All,” based and consensus ideas from its Leadership Forum on Retirement Savings, which convened “more than 70 experts and industry leaders” to “share, evaluate, and refine solutions to the nation’s retirement
I know you’ve got cash lying around you’d love to double. Heck, even the most buttoned-down investor wouldn’t turn down a quick 2X gain. So let’s go ahead and double your stake—and do it safely, too. Before you ask, no, this isn’t some wild pot-stock speculation: my 2X money plan only works on companies paying—and
Warren Buffett (Photo by Bennett Raglin/WireImage) 2017 Bennett Raglin “It’s 12:35 p.m. in Omaha, Nebraska, and I’m having lunch with Warren Buffett.” That’s the first line in my new book, The Lemonade Life. We ate at Piccolo’s, which is one of Buffett’s favorite restaurants and where he and Bill Gates also have dined together. Buffett
KRAKOW, POLAND – 2018/09/19: In this photo illustration, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) logo … [+] is seen displayed on an Android mobile phone. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I was a teenager, police were often called “pigs” and
Gardens in Singapore Duy Nguyen/Unsplash With concerns increasing about US leadership on climate, immigration, and trade, and about Europe, slowed by its own economic and social pressures, my recent Asian travels fortified my sense that 21st century leadership will come from the East. The region is a work in process and much remains to be