The baby boomer age wave often is characterized as a demographic and societal challenge, but it’s also a huge entrepreneurial business opportunity. The aging of the population is creating market demand for new products and services at an unprecedented pace. I spoke recently about age wave opportunities with Dick Stroud, co-author with Kim Walker of [...] [...more]
I attended the annual Encore 2013 conference earlier this month, and it’s always a highlight on my calendar. Encore offers a great opportunity to hear from top thought leaders on the challenge of re-inventing careers at midlife, including the presentation of the Purpose Prize awards. Marc Freedman, CEO of Encore.org, always is too busy to [...] [...more]
Jeff Williams left an eighteen-year corporate career as a sales and marketing executive to start his first entrepreneurial training company in 1988. He launched Bizstarters.com in 2000, which focuses on helping 50+ entrepreneurs launch businesses. In 2008, he launched the Virtual Incubator Coaches Network. Jeff is a nationally known expert in starting a business and [...] [...more]
The decline of defined benefit pensions in the private sector, along with rising reliance on 401(k) and IRA accounts, has left millions of Americans to answer a critical retirement planning question on their own: how to be confident they’ll have sufficient income support in retirement. Who better to answer the question than an actuary — [...] [...more]
Ed Slott is one of the nation’s top experts on IRAs and retirement saving. An author, public speaker and CPA, he emphasizes the importance of strategies for minimizing the tax burden on retirement saving. Ed recently published a brief book laying out fundamental principals for young retirement savers, called Fund Your Future: A Tax-Smart Savings [...] [...more]
