July 2024
31Jul

The 2024 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds

By Social Security Administration The Trustees Report includes many tables containing historical data and projections. For convenience, we provide the reader with links to view all of these tables in one place, without the accompanying text of the report. Note that the tables in the report generally present results only for every fifth year. Therefore, we also provide links to supplemental tables by single year for readers requiring more detail. Reference should always be made to the published report for...

July 31, 2024
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30Jul

Scammers are targetting older americans and their retirement savings

For nearly three months, Barry Heitin, a 76-year-old retired lawyer, thought he was part of a government investigation that felt like something out of the movies. He was actually assisting criminals in stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars — of his own money. Last fall, he spent just about every weekday doing the legwork and making withdrawals from his bank accounts as part of an intricate scam: He believed he was helping the feds safeguard his money and catch thieves...

July 30, 2024
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30Jul

US. Michigan joins Wisconsin pension fund with bitcoin investment

When the Securities and Exchange Commission approved bitcoin exchange-traded funds, one of the questions after the approval was whether institutional investors would now be more comfortable investing in the cryptocurrency using those vehicles. It joins its neighboring swing-state retirement fund in investing in the cryptocurrency. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board previously has shown up in the top shareholder lists for the iShares Bitcoin Trust and the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust . The Jersey City, N.J., pension fund is looking to invest...

July 30, 2024
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29Jul

US. The No. 1 enemy of your 401(k) plan may be you

Here's the truth about the portfolio strategy you might be following When the stock market did a face-plant earlier this week, I went and checked some numbers. And I thought: Yep. Like clockwork. Yep: Individual investors have been feeling bullish. Yep: Joe and Jane Q. Public have been pouring money into the stock market - after this year's big run-up. The Investment Company Institute reports a surge of buying of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that invest in U.S. stocks in the...

July 29, 2024
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25Jul

US. A Philly Small Business Network May Have an Answer to America’s Retirement Crisis

Americans are woefully underprepared for retirement. So it's no surprise that employer-sponsored retirement programs are a high priority for all workers. Fifty-five-year olds in the U.S. currently have median retirement savings of less than $50,000, and two-thirds fear they will outlive their savings, a Prudential report recently revealed. However, only around one-third of small employers offer retirement savings plans, according to Fidelity Investment's 2023 Small Business Retirement Index, which cited time and cost as the biggest barriers small-business owners face in offering retirement benefits. First, employers must pay...

July 25, 2024
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25Jul

U.S. states are ordering their pension funds to sell their China investments

As state treasurer, Vivek Malek pushed Missouri’s main retirement system to pull its investments from Chinese companies, making Missouri among the first nationally to do so. Now Malek is touting the Chinese divestment as he seeks reelection in an Aug. 6 Republican primary against challengers who also are denouncing financial connections to China. The Missouri treasurer’s race highlights a new facet of opposition to China, which has been cast as a top threat to the U.S. by many candidates seeking...

July 25, 2024
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24Jul

US. AARP reveals proposals for national plan on aging

AARP, the interest group advocating for the wellbeing of older Americans, revealed in a policy paper this month its priorities for a national plan on aging that sufficiently recognizes the changing demographics of the U.S. population, and the trend that will see 20% of all Americans become at least the age of 65 by 2030. “While other countries are responding to these changes by developing and implementing national strategic plans to help them meet the challenges and maximize opportunities to increase...

July 24, 2024
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23Jul

US. NJ lanza programa de ahorro para la jubilación para trabajadores sin acceso a un plan de retiro

Estas son buenas noticias para los trabajadores del Estado Jardín que buscan lograr ahorrar dinero para cuando llegue el momento de su retiro. Esto debido a que millones de empleados en Nueva Jersey ahora podrán ahorrar para una jubilación gracias al lanzamiento del programa de ahorro para la jubilación RetireReady NJ que es administrada por Vestwell, una plataforma líder de ahorro individual y para empleadores. Este recurso es administrado por el estado y busca ayudar a los trabajadores que no...

July 23, 2024
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23Jul

U.S. public pension funds earn 10-year median return of 15.2% from private equity

Private equity produced a median annualized return of 15.2% over 10 years for U.S. public pension funds, according to a report by the American Investment Council, a private equity manager trade group. The AIC report examines the private equity investments of 200 U.S. public pension funds for the years December 2021 to December 2023, with most dates as of June 30, 2023. The U.S. public pension fund earning the highest private equity return was the $6.4 billion Vermont State Retirement Systems, with...

July 23, 2024
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23Jul

How Gen X Can Catch Up on Retirement Savings

Generation X—the cohort of people born between 1965 and 1980—is now squarely in middle age. This phase often brings worries about aging, mortality, and a general decline in overall life satisfaction. Retirement preparedness is another major worry. Based on BlackRock’s 2024 Read on Retirement report, only 60% of survey respondents in this generation believe they’re on track to retire with the lifestyle they want, compared with 77% for Generation Z, 72% for millennials, and 68% for baby boomers. Another survey from Transamerica puts some additional context...

July 23, 2024
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