Month: November 2019

By Rachel Hartman, Next Avenue Contributor Getty A growing number of Americans age 65 and older are shunning traditional retirement and continuing to work, part-time or full-time. And 37% of employees say they expect to work past 70, according to a 2018 Willis Towers Watson survey. While more employees are pushing back retirement age, their
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UNITED STATES – AUGUST 21: The Internal Revenue Service building is pictured in Washington on … [+] Wednesday August 21, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Hear that noise? It’s the collective sighs of tax professionals around the country upon learning that the Internal Revenue
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Customers exit an Abercrombie & Fitch store in San Francisco, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Abercrombie & Fitch fell short of quarterly same-store sales estimates on Tuesday, hit by sluggish demand for the teen apparel retailer’s surfwear-themed Hollister clothing line. Sales at established stores were flat in the third quarter ended
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Consumer confidence dipped for a fourth straight month in November as economic conditions weaken toward the end of 2019, data released Tuesday by The Conference Board shows. The Board’s consumer confidence index dipped to 125.5 this month. That’s down from 126.1 in October. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected the index to rise to 126.6.
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LVMH chair Bernard Arnault speaks at the Viva Technology conference in June 2017 in Paris, France Chesnot | Getty Images Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of luxury goods brand LVMH, has overtaken Bill Gates to be named the world’s second-wealthiest person by Forbes. According to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, the French businessman added an estimated
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Sean Locke | Photographer’s Choice RF | Getty Images Instilling sound financial knowledge in children can change the course of their lives. With many families living paycheck to paycheck and debt at record-level highs, it’s more important than ever for kids to learn good financial planning habits. As the holidays quickly approach, some will consider
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As I have attempted to summarize the key messages and themes that have underscored my writing and research, I find that the following eight guidelines serve as a manifesto for my approach to retirement income planning. It is helpful to start with these guidelines because I will ultimately talk about how to implement these guidelines
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A man uses his mobile phone as he walks past advertising for the new iPhones outside the Apple store … [+] in Hong Kong on October 10, 2019. (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images In the world of sin taxes, chemical taxes tend to fly under the radar. They aren’t
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(Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). Getty Images Residential real estate seems to have regained health of late, and in more ways than one. On the macro side, activity, after months of stagnation and decline, has turned upward again. Alone, this change has lifted the specter of recession. Still more encouraging, lower-priced housing has begun to appreciate
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