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Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
Poor investment returns accounted for a major part of the pension funding gap.
Employers are liking financial wellness plans, but one thing in particular keeps their employees from participating.
The individual mandate may be gone, but the employer mandate is still in play, and the IRS is cracking down.
While a student loan benefit is the most-requested financial benefit, it's only third on the priority list for HR professionals.
Women cope with not just dispensing financial advice but also financially helping to support adult children.
It's not just saving, but saving enough that matters. And there's the rub.
At retirement, a woman is likely to have accumulated $1,055,000 less than her male counterparts.
It's one step forward and two steps back as regulations are repealed at the federal level and then re-instituted by state and local governments.
Not only are companies planning to expand existing programs, but they're increasing incentives to entice workers to buy into such programs.
Uninsured rates among lower-income adults jumped from 20.9 percent in 2016 to 25.7 percent in March of 2018.