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New Academic Research Finds Deferred Income Annuities Reduce Overall Cost of Funding Retirement

Apr 17, 2015

InsuranceNewsNet - Including a deferred income annuity (DIA) in a retirement portfolio helps reduce the cost of funding retirement while also offsetting risk and providing asset allocation flexibility, according to a new academic paper authored by Michael Finke, Professor and Director of Retirement Planning and Living, Texas Tech University and Wade Pfau, Professor of Retirement Income, American College.

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Why do only half of Americans invest in stocks?

Apr 17, 2015

Deseret News - A recently published BankRate.com survey discovered roughly half of all working Americans and 75 percent of millennials do not own any stock or 401(k) plans.

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All hail the pro-aging revolutionaries: the celebrities challenging anti-aging

Apr 17, 2015

The Telegraph - Today in the beauty world, the money talk is of a new emerging market: the over 50s. According to Escentual.com, women over 50 now spend a whopping £2,200 per year on average on cosmetics - making them the biggest spenders and responsible for 58.14 per cent of all sales.

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Ask The Experts: Fostering Financial Literacy in the U.S.

Apr 15, 2015

Wallet Hub - Financial literacy is a growing area of focus for the academic community – from public school policymakers to university researchers. Areerat Lertchaipitak, doctoral candidate and associate instructor of personal finance at Texas Tech University, discussed some of the issues related to financial literacy.

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