Stocks and bonds are core investments. Now, Vanguard is suggesting that retirees willing and able to bear the risk may want a stock target of 50 percent. The stock market can provide eye-popping term returns but can also be counted on to produce big losses. High-quality bonds, on the other hand, typically generate modest returns
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The national network of Social Security customer service offices, which were closed nearly two years ago at the start of the pandemic, is on track to reopen on March 30. The Social Security Administration and unions representing the agency’s work force agreed this week to reopen more than 1,200 offices, contingent on changes in pandemic
Everyone, sometime or another, dreams of quitting. For millions, the fantasy is real. More than 4.5 million Americans voluntarily left their jobs in November alone — the highest one-month total on record. Much of the turnover has been in hospitality, retail and other lower-wage jobs that have been particularly challenging during the pandemic. But the
Conventional investing wisdom says that the older you get, the less of your financial assets should be in the stock market. One frequently heard justification is that stocks rise reliably in the long run but can fluctuate a lot in the short run and that if you’re old, you don’t have time to recover from
As life spans grow, a small subspecialty of financial planners address multiple stages of old age. When Cynthia Hutchins started her career as a financial planner in the 1980s, the concept of “retirement” was simple and straightforward. Most of her clients envisioned a few years of leisure after their full-time careers ended, with a pension,
Living longer can mean having a longer career, whether by choice or necessity. Stopping and starting isn’t easy, but it might be worth it. You’re probably going to need to work longer than you imagined when you were first starting out. After all, you might live to be 100. So let’s call it a 50-year
Pinterest pledged $50 million to overhaul its corporate culture and promote diversity as part of an agreement to resolve allegations that it discriminated against women and people of color, according to court documents and statements from the plaintiffs and the company. The settlement was announced on Wednesday by Seth Magaziner, the general treasurer of Rhode
As an aspiring entrepreneur, you may have a good idea, but tread lightly before using retirement savings as capital. Renee Edwards has wanted to be her own boss since she first heard the name Warren Buffett. “I’ve been following him for a long time,” she said of the Berkshire Hathaway chief executive and revered investor.
Overconfidence is bad, and women are less likely to fall victim to it. Merrill was a guy, and so was Lynch. Goldman? A dude, and Sachs as well. Charles Schwab is a man, and so was E.F. Hutton. Gordan Gekko was an alpha male. And Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street? Total bro. Heroes
Fund investors are rarely asked what concerns them or how they’d vote. But now, several measures aim to do that. Still, it’s just a start, our columnist says. When you buy shares of a publicly traded company, you’re a part owner and, in theory, have a right to vote on some important matters that come
The Labor Department proposed rule changes on Wednesday that would make it easier for retirement plans to add investment options based on environmental and social considerations — and make it possible for such options to be the default setting upon enrollment. In a reversal of a Trump-era policy, the Biden administration’s proposal makes clear that
Robert S. Kaplan will exit his role as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas next month. Eric S. Rosengren, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is also retiring earlier than planned. Two Federal Reserve officials embroiled in controversy for trading securities that could have benefited from the central bank’s 2020
Some Black and Hispanic millennials are looking to alternatives like real estate or entrepreneurship, or to trading stock on their own. Raul Duplessi became intrigued with the stock market nearly 15 years ago, when he landed his first job as a hotel doorman in Manhattan and a TV near his workstation played financial news on
Find someone wiser than you, check your credit report and taxes, and stop catastrophizing. This is how you can do it. Maybe you lost your job. Maybe your hours were cut. Or maybe you had to take over caregiving responsibilities. If your income fell precipitously in the last 18 months — even if things have
More details on why experts advise to wait to claim benefits and on benefits for divorced spouses. Few retirement issues are as complex and controversial as Social Security and the strategies people can use to maximize their benefits. So we were not surprised that an article The New York Times published in June on how
The problem of decumulation is a tricky one, even for Nobel Prize-winning economists. I’ve been asking readers to suggest ideas, and I got this one last week from Jerry Moskowitz of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: “I teach a class for seniors called Keeping Current in Economics and Finance. An interesting subject may be decumulation — how to
More and more, larger employers are offering “wellness” programs that can coach people to better manage their money, combining digital tools and a human touch. Soni Kapoor wanted to stay ahead of the game on his personal finances and retirement planning. As the product marketing manager for the Silicon Valley tech firm Synopsys, Mr. Kapoor
A unit of TIAA, the investment firm that runs retirement plans for many educators and others, will pay $97 million to settle charges from both the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York State that it misled thousands of investors. Attorney General Letitia James of New York said the company had “relied on its reputation
Si tu empleador ofrece alternativas de ahorro para el retiro, es momento de conocerlas. Si no tiene, o no valen la pena, te decimos qué hacer. Invertir a través de los planes de tu empleador puede ser uno de los modos más efectivos de ahorrar para el retiro, sobre todo si te ofrece opciones sólidas.
It was February 2020. Brittany Jones had high expectations for the Atlanta-based Airbnb rental business she had just launched. “‘Oh wow, this is going to be great,’” she said she remembers thinking. “We were getting bookings fast, well into the summer.” The 34-year-old single mom was soon pouring her hard-earned savings into the venture as