NEW YORK (Reuters) – In scary times like these, it is comforting to talk to someone who has seen and studied a lot of things – booms, busts, and everything in between. FILE PHOTO: Robert J. Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University attends a session at the annual Continue Reading
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Your Money: Ditch the Resolution – Do a year-end review instead
NEW YORK(Reuters) – It is hardly a secret that people rarely stick to New Year’s resolutions – only about 8% of people actually make it to the finish line with their goals, according to studies from the University of Scranton, in Pennsylvania. FILE PHOTO: U.S. one hundred dollar notes are Continue Reading
Fallout from money manager Kenneth Fisher’s remarks tops $1 billion in lost assets
BOSTON (Reuters) – Fallout from Kenneth Fisher’s alleged insensitive remarks about women escalated on Friday when a large Iowa pension plan cut ties with the money manager, whose firm has lost more than $1 billion in assets under management in the last week. The Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System was Continue Reading
Your Money: Big companies explore virtual care to curb healthcare costs
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Big companies are increasing incorporating virtual technology and care options into employee benefit plans to combat the rising healthcare costs that long been corporate America’s bugaboo, according to the annual survey of the National Business Group on Health. FILE PHOTO: Nurse Health Practitioner Rachelle Quimpo (C) Continue Reading
YOUR MONEY: Retirement reform wants more of your tax dollars now
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Saving for retirement is such a lofty goal that the U.S. government has always been willing to give tax incentives to encourage people to do more of it. FILE PHOTO: An employee counts U.S. dollar bills at a money exchange office in central Cairo, Egypt, March Continue Reading
Your money: Cosigning a student loan? Be prepared to pay
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Is your college-bound child a good credit risk? FILE PHOTO: Messages and artwork are pictured on the top of the caps of graduating students during their graduation ceremony at UC San Diego in San Diego, California, U.S. June 17, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Consider this very Continue Reading
Your money: Should you pay to stop phone spam?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – If your phone log is anything like mine, the list of incoming scam calls makes it look like you work for the State Department: Sri Lanka, Lithuania, Russia, Bosnia, Benin, Croatia and Sierra Leone. And if you are anything like me, the thought that may cross Continue Reading
Women running the money? Rarely at hedge funds
LONDON (Reuters) – Generous salary and juicy bonus? Check. Client meetings at private members’ club? Check. Swanky Mayfair office? Check. Company maternity scheme? Maybe, we’ll get back to you. Clare Flynn Levy, CEO of Essentia Analytics is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters March 28, 2019. Clare Continue Reading
Mutual funds start to put their mouth where their money is
(Reuters) – Corporate America’s biggest shareholders have traditionally been content with sharing their views on a company’s strategy privately with management. FILE PHOTO: Logo of global biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb is pictured at the headquarters in Le Passage, near Agen, France March 29, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/File Photo But now some Continue Reading
Your Money: Pay yourself first? Last is how small biz often works
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Everyone knows the Golden Rule of business is to pay yourself first. But more than half of small business owners are going months without pay – if they are taking any at all. FILE PHOTO – An employee of a bank counts US dollar notes at Continue Reading