There’s bad news and so-so news about the retirement insecurity of American female workers in the new Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey 2019. But the good news is that if employers, the U.S. government, financial advisers and those workers take a few k… Continue reading
Women concerned about how to make their money last in retirement will want to tune in to the latest episode of the new Friends Talks Money podcast (available on all major streaming platforms and on Friendstalkmoney.org). The reasons making money last i… Continue reading
Women in their 50s who are at the most financial risk in retirement are those who are married and in two-income households. That’s the surprising news from a recent report on women and retirement from Prudential Financial. The finding is based on rese… Continue reading
“There’s no stopping this train,” Jean Chatzky, financial editor of NBC’s The Today Show, writes in her excellent new book, Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve. (… Continue reading
The financial challenges women face to achieve financial security in retirement can be huge, as a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing and an Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) briefing last week demonstrated starkly. And with the rising c… Continue reading
I recently attended a Milken Institute Future of Health Summit panel in Washington, D.C. called Race, Gender, and Work: The Economics of Healthy Aging. The experts’ insights whizzed across a range of topics from caregiving to investing and jobs, but th… Continue reading
Couples in their 50s and 60s may be heading into a financial problem they haven’t thought about: If one spouse or partner makes all their money decisions, the other could be in big trouble if the relationship ends or the household’s so-called Chief Fin… Continue reading
Dell Gines, the author of an intriguing new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Black Women Business StartUps, loves this quote attributed to Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn: “An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff a… Continue reading