Target-date funds are the newest product in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s crosshairs. …
A recent survey from the Urban Institute pins some numbers to just how much health care costs will affect boomers’ retirements. …
Apparently, this is news. UPI reports the aging of the baby boom generation is resulting in a dramatic increase in levels of illicit drug use among adults 50 and older. So boomers use drugs. Who'd have thought?…
Boomers are finding religion as they age. …
More bad news for Social Security. USA Today reports that the program’s surplus “nearly evaporated” in 2009, the first time this has happened in 25 years. …
Latino baby boomers make up a population group so diverse that the common practice of lumping them into a disadvantaged underclass is inappropriate, according to a report from the USC Davis School of Gerontology.…
Your client is 50, laid off and hasn’t saved a dime (okay, if this is really the case he probably isn’t your client, but stay with us). …
How much of an impact will Obamacare really have if we’re already halfway there? We point to the following horrifying statistic this week from the Wall Street Journal’s Peter Landers…
The Life and Longevity Markets Association is a group of banks, insurers and pension experts working to develop a “series of standardised indices that can be used as a global benchmark for trading longevity and mortality risk,” Reuters reports. …
More evidence that boomers are favoring bonds the closer they get to retirement. …
Ok, with so much needed in the retirement income space, we'll bite on Prinicpal Funds' latest announcement.
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Members of the post-war "baby boom" generation own almost half of all the peronal wealth in the country. …
President Obama offered help for people struggling to pay bills and care for their families, appealing to a middle-class he says has been "under assault for a long time." …
"For more than a year, the government pulled out the stops to revive home buying by driving down mortgage rates. Now, whether the housing market is ready or not, the government is pulling out."
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The latest Del Webb survey of baby boomers and their attitudes about retirement housing is set to drop, and (unsurprisingly) big changes have occured.
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