Month: October 2019

Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column addresses eligibility for spousal benefits if the other spouse hasn’t yet filed, the calculation of spousal benefit amounts, switching from spousal to retirement benefits, spousal benefits after retirement benefits and
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Kelvin Murray | Taxi | Getty Images Having more women in decision-making roles may boost companies’ performance on the stock market, according to Credit Suisse. In its “Gender 3000” report, published Thursday, the Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI) found a link between firms with more female leaders and stronger share price performance over time. Researchers
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Advisor advising Getty Most of the country’s 300,000 or so financial advisors get paid via sales commissions or else an annual percentage of the assets they oversee. The planners on this list are very different. They are paid the way lawyers are paid: by the hour
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Atmosphere outside The Shubert Theatre in 1975. (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Getty Images The history of Broadway will be heading to the big screen. After receiving an Academy Award nomination for his high-profile documentary about the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, director Oren Jacoby chose to focus his
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The recent GAO report IRS Could Better Leverage Existing Data to Identify Abusive Schemes Involving Tax-Exempt Entities is not nearly as boring as the title makes it sound. In order to get to its recommendations the report authors had to describe the shenanigans that the scoundrels are engaging in. The report might serve as a
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All older Americans, regardless of income, are at risk of financial abuse. Various studies estimate that seniors in the U.S. are scammed out of anywhere from $3 billion to $37 billion a year. Between 2013 and 2017, those over age 70 lost an average of $41,800 to elder financial exploitation, according to an analysis by
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Getty In Jennifer Petriglieri’s new book, Couples That Work: How Dual Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work, the organizational behavior professor at the European graduate business school INSEAD puts things bluntly: Having two partners pursuing active careers “can create tension, conflicts, and sacrifice.” But, she adds, “it can also create mutual growth, fulfillment,
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Tuscan Villa-inspired estate in Coral Gables, Florida The Jills Zeder Group Tucked away in a private gated community in Coral Gables, Florida is a Tuscan villa-inspired estate that is waterfront living at its best. The home at 150 Arvida Parkway in Gables Estates is on the market for a record-setting asking price of $48 million
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Annette Riedl | picture alliance | Getty Images In an age of ongoing digital transformation, cybercrime has quickly become today’s fastest-growing form of criminal activity. Equally worrying for modern executives, it’s also set to cost businesses $5.2 trillion worldwide within five years, according to Accenture. With 43% of online attacks now aimed at small businesses,
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