Month: October 2019

Kenneth Fisher, chief executive officer of Fisher Investments, speaks at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Gillianne Tedder | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Iowa Public Employees Retirement System is terminating its relationship with Fisher Investments, pulling $386 million from the asset manager. The Iowa plan, which holds
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View of Peoria’s river front Getty Last week Thursday, the Illinois Pension Consolidation Feasibility Task Force released its report recommending the consolidation of the investment funds for the 650-odd local police and fire pension plans, but declining to propose consolidation of the administration of these plans, merely suggesting that this might be a topic for
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The labor marker is tight. Unemployment hit a 50-year low in September, and human resource departments across the country are scrambling for ways to attract new workers. Walmart‘s plan involves courting teenagers. The company has 2.2 million employees globally. In the U.S., it has 1.4 million workers but fewer than 25,000 are in high school.
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By Jessica Thiefels, Next Avenue Contributor Nina Bandoni, founder of the Sharing a Journey blog Nina Bandoni Retirement is the perfect time for things like travel and exploring old passions. It can also be a great time to start a business. That was the case for Paul A. Dillon, of the Raleigh-Durham, N.C. area. He
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People drink beer on a patio before the arrival of Tropical Storm Dorian in Boqueron, Puerto Rico, … [+] Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) ASSOCIATED PRESS For most people in the U.S., it’s easy to forget Puerto Rico outside of the occasional still-in-trouble-after-hurricanes story you’ll see. But the picture is much worse than
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James Gorman, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley, fixes his jacket during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Morgan Stanley China Summit in Beijing, China, on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Giulia Marchi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Morgan Stanley is set to report third-quarter earnings before the opening bell on Thursday. Here’s
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Expanding Social Security is wise policy. Voting to expand Social Security is winning politics. Indeed, generations of Democrats won election after election by running on Social Security, a program that improves the financial security of working families across America. For decades after Social Security’s enactment, Congress improved and expanded the program, always increasing revenue to
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