Retirement

Lifestyle inflation happens when your expenses increase along with your income. Getty Lifestyle inflation happens when your expenses increase along with your income. As earnings increase, it’s natural to want to buy a better car or take another vacation. After all, it seems feasible. But if your savings rate isn’t at least keeping up with

The IRS wants you to know that retirees may be targets of scams that relate to economic impact payments (EIPs). EIPs were authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). Senior Woman Giving Credit Card Details On The Phone Getty The U.S. Treasury is in the process of paying EIPs to

null Getty PPP borrowers and their advisors are scrambling to determine how to manage their businesses and expenses to best facilitate loan forgiveness to benefit their businesses and employees. These two objectives are sometimes at odds, and the new 24-week testing period election, which most borrowers can meet, will have a powerful impact on business conduct.   

Getty Social Security’s already-precarious financial condition will become worst because of the current economic downturn. The question many economists and policy analysts are trying to answer is: How bad will the system’s financial condition be? The trustees of Social Security issued their latest annual report in April, but the report didn’t include the downturn. The

TOPLINE Despite a minor sell-off on Friday, stocks have rebounded from the coronavirus recession strongly in recent months—too strongly, according to research from Vital Knowledge founder Adam Crisafulli, who believes investors are too optimistic about a quick economic recovery and the market is now overvalued. Investors aren’t paying “nearly enough attention to the enormous permanent

Good News: You Don’t Need An Existing Relationship With A Lender To Get A PPP Loan Deadline for small business owners to apply for financial aid is June 30, 2020. (Photo by ERIC … [+] BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Yesterday (June 19), the Small Business Administration (SBA) launched a free online

The Retirement Income Scorecard Steve Vernon There are many types of retirement income generators (RIGs) that each produce different amounts of retirement income. My Retirement Income Scorecard compares the amounts of retirement income that are possible for 10 different RIGs, which is one consideration for choosing a RIG or combination of RIGs to build your

Take the time you need to learn about retirement income strategies. Getty How should you deploy your retirement savings to generate lifetime income? That’s one of several critical decisions pre-retirees face as they approach retirement.  To help you answer this question, let’s look at the “Retirement Income Scorecard” that I developed to estimate the amount

TOPLINE While cruise stocks have recently been rebounding amid optimism about reopening the economy, the industry remains paralyzed by the coronavirus pandemic for the foreseeable future, with major cruise operators facing big quarterly losses and on Friday announcing that they’re extending their suspension of sailing. Cruise operators are still hopeful that customers will return in

Universal Images Group via Getty Images When it comes to planning for retirement, the fundamental math is straightforward: your income in retirement (including reasonable savings spend-down) must equal or exceed your expenses. Experts therefore worry about retirement readiness in terms of the degree to which Americans will have sufficient income in retirement — for example,

By Grace Birnstengel, Next Avenue Editor Getty Early on in the pandemic’s sweep over the U.S., a nursing home resident in Minnesota left her home for a weekend visit elsewhere. When she returned, the facility wouldn’t allow her back inside, for fears surrounding the coronavirus. The nursing home demanded a Covid-19 test. But at that

Yesterday, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) made it easier to apply for forgiveness of your Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan.   Small-business owners who qualify can now complete Form 3508 EZ for PPP loan forgiveness. (Photo by … [+] Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Los Angeles Times via Getty Images New EZ Application

Getty The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stimulus (CARES) Act, enacted in March, contained a number of provisions designed to provide relief to cash-strapped taxpayers, including retirees. Key breaks included reduced penalties for taking early IRA distributions, waiver of required minimum distributions (RMDs) and the option to spread taxes on retirement plan distributions over three

By Michele Turk, Next Avenue Contributor Getty By the time my doctor told me via FaceTime that I tested positive for Covid-19, my symptoms were long gone. I was probably not contagious anymore, and I had temporary immunity to the virus. For weeks afterward, the same thought replayed in my mind: I survived the coronavirus. How

Gambling to overcome coronavirus losses sounds like the “advice” you’d expect from a casino owner, … [+] not from the Chairman of a federal agency charged with protecting investors. ASSOCIATED PRESS Trump SEC Chairman Jay Clayton urges 401k plan sponsors and investors to gamble on private equity funds as a means of recovering coronavirus losses.

Variable Annuities Caveat In this discussion of variable annuities, I am mostly making an implicit assumption that the annuity is competitively priced. Fees reflect what is needed to support the guarantees provided by the insurance company and to keep the company profitable. But fees are not excessive such that the value to the consumer is

By Andrea Cooper, Next Avenue Contributor Nicole Dunn and her mother, who recently moved into an assisted living community Courtesy of Nicole Dunn Nicole Dunn was all set to move her mom, Barbara, into an assisted living community in St. Petersburg, Fla. in April. Then Covid-19 struck. The facility temporarily banned outsiders and “that meant

TOPLINE Stocks are jumping sharply on Tuesday thanks to a record surge in retail sales last month, additional support from the Federal Reserve and hopes for more government stimulus. Retail sales jumped by a record 17.7% in May. Spencer Platt/Getty Images KEY FACTS The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 2.4%, over 600 points, by

By Grace Birnstengel, Next Avenue Editor Getty Right now, the idea of justice is on the minds and hearts of the masses. Justice is sought for anyone who is wronged. Justice can be defined by an individual and looks differently for everyone. Acts of injustice are seen on large scales against historically marginalized groups: People

By Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue Editor Imani Woody, Larry Curley, Ron Long Next Avenue What does the future of aging in America look like? For answers, every year we ask some of our newest Influencers in Aging to offer their views at the American Society on Aging’s Aging in America conference. The pandemic turned this