If you’re retired from a company that provides health insurance benefits, get ready for change over the next few years. Many employers have shed retiree coverage altogether or cut back benefits in recent years due to skyrocketing health care costs. Just 29 percent of large companies provided coverage in 2009, down from 66 percent in [...] [read full article…]
Journalist Kerry Hannon talked with Mike Cuthbert of AARP Radio about her new book, What’s Next? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job. Listen here. [read full article…]
The final financial regulations reform bill could still surface with a rule requiring stock brokers and insurance agents to act in the best interest of clients–the so-called fiduciary rule that currently covers Registered Investment Advisers. The bill passed earlier by the House of Representatives included a fiduciary standard; the Senate bill approved last week does [...] [read full article…]
My new book The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security was featured today in USA Weekend. The story, How to Find a Job after 50, picks up on one of the book’s key themes — career reinvention and midlife job security. I spoke with USA Weekend contributor Richard Eisenberg about the recommendations in Chapter 13, [...] [read full article…]
The financial reform bill that passed the U.S. Senate last week doesn’t call for retail securities brokers to adhere to a fiduciary standard of behavior–which makes it that much more important that consumers understand the different types of advisors, how they are paid and what to look out for. Advisors who are fiduciaries have a [...] [read full article…]
