Month: July 2021

As you transition into retirement, it’s a good idea to adopt strategies that help protect you from significant financial losses in your later years due to mistakes, financial exploitation from unethical friends and relatives, and fraud.  The recently released “Thinking Ahead Roadmap” helps you select a financial advocate who can assist you in managing your money
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You can stumble across some interesting things on the internet. I recently encountered a Twitter thread related to the OECD’s pillar 1 proposal, which provided thoughtful insights that are worth sharing. The thread examined how pillar 1 would affect various nations in terms of net revenue gains or losses. That’s no trivial matter. The OECD project envisions billions of dollars in
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Paul Bradbury | OJO Images | Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic is breathing new life into the argument for a four-day workweek. As employees report burnout and many are refusing to return to the office post-pandemic, employers are rethinking workplace flexibility. For New York-based crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, one way to address that is the four-day
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Today’s column addresses questions about filing first on a spouse’s benefits and then for retirement benefits, filing for retroactive retirement benefits after first taking spousal benefits and whether it’s worth taking the option at 70 to file six months retroactively. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president
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