More Than a Nice Interface?
Jon Stein, CEO of Betterment, the biggest of the 'robo-advisors,' talked with RIJ recently at Betterment headquarters--three converted lofts in an historic building just west of the Flatiron Building in New York City.
Video: Income ‘Roundtable’ at The American College
Retirement income sources, including annuities, reverse mortgages, Social Security and LTCI, were topics of this two-hour seminar from the Retirement Income Certified Professional program at The American College. (Above: Curtis Cloke, Richard Weber and David Littell.)
Tales from the Annuity Frontier
Three pioneers in the creative use of annuities in retirement portfolios--Wade Pfau, Joe Tomlinson, and Steve Vernon--have created an "efficient frontier" for deferred income annuities in two reports published in November by the Society of Actuaries.
‘The Big Short’ Is No Tall Tale
'The Big Short,' in which the actress Margot Roddie (above) provides exposition from her bath, is an excellent docudrama based on Michael Lewis' bestseller. It blames the financial crisis on private-sector fraud and stupidity, not on ACORN, the GSEs or Barney Frank.
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The January sell-off in stocks—a delayed reaction to the Fed?
'It is possible that we could have seen outflows from U.S. equity funds in December were it not for the year-end rebalancing trend," said Alina Lamy, author of the latest Morningstar Direct Asset Flows Report.
Advisors Provide Icing, But Retirees Need Cake
'I thought that, if given the right software, the retirement industry would use it to address the non-investment needs of the mass market. I was wrong,' writes our guest columnist, the president of RetirementWorks, Inc., of Harvard, Mass.
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‘The Big Short’ Is No Tall Tale
'The Big Short,' in which the actress Margot Roddie (above) provides exposition from her bath, is an excellent docudrama based on Michael Lewis' bestseller. It blames the financial crisis on private-sector fraud and stupidity, not on ACORN, the GSEs or Barney Frank.
Christie nixes state-run IRA in favor of private marketplace
The marketplace will offer three options: a SIMPLE IRA, a payroll deduction IRA and a MyRA. Firms participating in the marketplace will have to offer at least two investment options, including a target date fund, or similar fund, and a balanced fund.
