Last week, I spent four days at the American Society on Aging’s 2019 Aging in America Conference and the What’s Next Boomer Business Summit, both in New Orleans. My goal: to learn and report on the latest news and trends concerning money, work and vol… Continue reading
A new landmark study of America’s workers and retirees shows they’re significantly more confident than a year ago in their ability to live comfortably throughout retirement. I wish I could believe them. But based on actual retirement savings trends, re… Continue reading
Boomer and Gen X parents sometimes fret about all they’re still doing to provide financial support to their grown children. But how do the millennial and Gen Z kids feel about getting that support? Merrill Lynch and the research firm Age Wave just aske… Continue reading
(In 2008, National Geographic writer Dan Buettner published his bestselling book, The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, about the five “longevity pockets” around the world. For this weekly series, Next Av… Continue reading
(Next Avenue is publishing this essay in honor of Record Store Day, Saturday, April 13, an annual event celebrating the culture of the independently owned record store.) My daughter took some time during a recent weekend visit to clean out her collecti… 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
(In 2008, National Geographic writer Dan Buettner published his bestselling book, The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, about the five “longevity pockets” around the world. For this weekly series, Next Av… Continue reading
Next Avenue recently asked readers to send us their top questions about their 2018 tax returns and we would answer as many as we could. In the story published in late March, three tax experts sorted out confusion about: who needs to file; standard dedu… Continue reading
(In 2008, National Geographic writer Dan Buettner published his bestselling book, The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, about the five “longevity pockets” around the world: The Nicoya Peninsula of Costa R… Continue reading
Generation X, the often-ignored generation between boomers and millennials, also turns out to be the least happy at work and most financially stressed generation. Those are a few topline findings about Gen X workers — the 53 million who are now age 39 … Continue reading