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Competing Priorities: The Retirement Fear Index October Update
By David Conti, CPRC The Retirement Savings Problem Is Becoming a Household-Finance Problem The Retirement Fear Index reached a new high in October as Americans struggled to balance retirement saving with the mortgage, debt, family support, healthcare and the rising cost of everyday life. Americans know they should save for retirement. The harder question is: What happens when five other things need the money first? That question sits behind the October 2026 Retirement Fear Index.
Cognitive Decline Is Suddenly a Bigger Retirement Fear
For years, retirement planning conversations have been dominated by familiar financial worries: inflation, healthcare costs, Social Security, market volatility and the possibility of outliving savings. In September, something different moved sharply higher. Cognitive Decline & Loss of Independence jumped eight intensity points to 108 in the RetireMentor’s Retirement Fear Index, the category’s largest single-month increase since the Index launched.
Passing The Retirement Fear Baton
The Retirement Fear Index Hits a New High — But Not for the Reasons You Might Expect But the headline number doesn’t tell the most interesting part of the story. Some of the retirement fears that dominated earlier this year — inflation, healthcare costs and Social Security — actually cooled. Instead, the baton passed. Concerns about outliving savings, cognitive decline, market volatility and housing moved higher, pushing the overall Index above its previous peak. What Changed This Month?
The Hardest Habit for Millionaires to Break in Retirement
The episode illustrates an irony I've noticed in writing about retirement: The people who become particularly good at accumulating wealth can sometimes become particularly uncomfortable using it. Suzie's adult children have successful businesses and don't need a large inheritance . For them, a family vacation today could be worth far more than receiving additional money decades from now. So Suzie booked the trip.
The 3 Retirement Traps That Catch Even Top Executives Off Guard
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images For many successful executives, retirement looks nearly perfect on paper. The financial plan works. The calendar is open. There is time to travel, exercise and see family. Then Monday morning arrives. There is no leadership meeting, no urgent decision and no team waiting for direction. The title that once opened doors is now part of a biography.
Beyond Risk: Understanding the Retirement Fears That Keep Us Awake
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Retirement Anxiety Just Decreased, but Worries Persist About Social Security and Inflation — Barrons.com
Retirement planners talk constantly about risk: Longevity risk, inflation risk, sequence-of-returns risk, healthcare risk, policy risk, and market risk. But one thing I've learned in my 20 years focusing on retirement, first as a financial journalist and editor and now as a retirement coach, is that ordinary people don't usually make decisions based on risk models. They make decisions based on fear. They fear running out of money. They fear Social Security will change.
Retirement Fears Are Cooling—But the Biggest Worries Haven’t Gone Away
The August Retirement Fear Index declined for the first time since its launch. That is welcome news. But the fears that eased were tied to the economic cycle. The deeper concerns about Social Security, healthcare and longevity remain firmly in place. For the first time since we launched the Retirement Fear Index, the temperature of retirement anxiety has cooled. Just a little.
Retirement Fear Is Rising. Planning Can Help.
The July Retirement Fear Index rose to 121.7 — a new 13-month high — as Social Security, longevity, and savings concerns deepened for retirees and pre-retirees. We all have retirement fears. Fear of outliving our money. Fear of rising healthcare costs. Fear of Social Security changes. Fear of needing care. Fear of making the wrong move — or no move at all. The Index is a monthly meta-analysis of retirement research — and a sentiment map of retiree fear.
I'm a Retirement Coach: How a Little 'Healthy Fear' Can Protect Your Nest Egg
That is where a healthy fear becomes useful. It does not say, "Never spend." It says, "Let's understand what is sustainable." Credit: Getty Images Mary Ware, managing partner and senior wealth adviser at Carnegie Private Wealth in Charlotte, N.C., puts it this way: "I try to help clients fight fear with facts and action." Sitting in worry rarely helps. But turning worry into a planning conversation can, Ware says.
How the Best Advisers Help Clients Use Their Retirement Fear
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How the Best Advisers Help Clients Use Their Retirement Fear
Jeff Blomberg, managing partner and co-founder at Mountain Legacy Family Wealth Partners in Colorado, works with many executives who have accumulated substantial wealth. In his experience, the issue is not always whether they can afford to retire. It's what retirement will ask of them emotionally. What will I do with my time? How will I stay challenged? How will my relationships change? How do I remain useful? Those are not soft questions. They are central retirement questions.
Why Health Care and Long-Term Care Costs Are the #1 Retirement Fear
What is the biggest fear in retirement? For many people, the first answer is: running out of money. That makes sense. No one wants to spend 30 or 40 years saving for retirement only to worry that the money may not last. But according to the new Retirement Fear Index, the #1 retirement fear is even more specific, more emotional, and often more difficult to plan for: Health care and long-term care costs. That distinction matters. Running out of money is a broad financial fear.
Launch Day: The Retirement Fear Index
By David Conti, RetireMentors For more than 20 years, I’ve been writing about retirement from nearly every angle — as a financial journalist, editor, content strategist, and now as a certified retirement coach. I spent seven years as Retirement & Personal Finance Editor for Fidelity Viewpoints, helping millions of readers understand the financial decisions that shape the second half of life.
David Bowie's Retirement Advice
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in life — and especially as I move deeper into my own retirement journey — can actually be summed up by an old David Bowie song from his Hunky Dory album. “Changes.” For many Baby Boomers and older Gen Xers, Bowie’s 1971 hit became something bigger than music, it became an anthem for reinvention. “Ch-ch-ch-changes… Turn and face the strange…” Back then, many of today’s retirees were young, ambitious, and remarkably open to change.
No kids, no care: Solo agers are hiring professional ‘next-of-kin’ for major life decisions
Roughly 25% of U.S. adults have no children. Many of these “solo agers” delay estate planning. - Getty Images They’ve done everything right financially — saved aggressively, invested well, and built retirement portfolios that could last decades. Affluent “solo agers” have financial security and a detailed retirement map — but many lack something much more basic: a clear estate plan and someone authorized to make decisions if they can’t.
Why Boomers Are Now the Dominant Force in Housing
ð¡ Baby Boomers Are Now the Dominant Force in HousingâWhat That Really Means for Retirement (April 15, 2026) New data just droppedâand it flips the traditional housing narrative on its head. According to the latest National Association of REALTORS® report, Baby Boomers now account for 42% of all home buyers, making them the single largest force in todayâs housing market. At the same time, first-time buyers have fallen to just 21%âthe lowest level on record.
Why You Need a Travel Strategy in Retirement
Developing a Travel Strategy in Retirement ✈️🌎 A lot of my friends are entering the “Go-Go” years of retirement. They’re 65-ish. Healthy. Active. Curious. And they’re asking a simple question: “Where do we go next… and how much can we realistically do?” One friend just returned from a once-in-a-lifetime safari in Africa. Her husband? He opted out. Not on his bucket list. (For the record… it’s not on mine either.) Meanwhile, my wife and I just got back from an 8-day trip to Mexico City.
The Power of Donor-Advised Funds in Changing the World
By David Conti, Retirement Coach at RetireMentors This year marks my 20th anniversary of opening a donor-advised fund (DAF). It’s one of those decisions that, at the time, felt practical… almost administrative. A better way to organize charitable giving. A tax-efficient tool. A cleaner process. But over two decades, it has become something far more meaningful. It has shaped how I give. It has influenced how I think about generosity.
How To Deal With Family Emergencies
Family Emergencies Change Everything — Including Financial Decisions When crisis strikes, families don’t need more financial complexity. They need clarity, calm leadership, and a human-centered approach to decision-making. Family emergencies don’t arrive on your calendar. They arrive at 2:05 a.m. A phone call. An ER visit. A diagnosis you never expected. Over the years, I’ve had my share: A moment when we thought my mother had suffered a heart attack. A cancer diagnosis in the family.
Why Paying Cash for a Car in Retirement Deserves a Second Look
🚗 Buying a new (or new-to-you) car in retirement? Before you write the check — or sign the dealer paperwork — pause. Today’s car purchase isn’t just about sticker price. It’s about strategy. Should you: • Pay cash from your portfolio? • Use low-rate manufacturer financing? • Tap a credit union loan? • Consider a portfolio line of credit? • Factor in tax implications or Medicare premium thresholds?
Ready to Play the Longevity Game - on Your Own Terms?
We made it through another year. That’s no small thing. But if you’re anywhere near retirement — or already there — you’ve probably noticed how quickly celebration turns into reflection. How many good years do I really have left? Not just years alive, but years when you feel strong, useful, curious, and engaged. That’s the difference between lifespan and healthspan. Lifespan is how long you live. Healthspan is how long you live well.
How AI Could Kill the Great Wealth Transfer
The $124 trillion wealth transfer is under way, but career disruption risks turning inheritance on its head.
Winning Strategies for Financial Advisers as Clients' Lives Evolve
2 hours ago You can never escape Uncle Sam. The U.S. and Eritrea are the only two countries in the world where taxes aren’t based on residency. That means no matter where Americans live, they’re subject to U.S. income taxes if they meet income thresholds regardless of where they earned THAT MONEY (DELETE the …
Harnessing Multi-Source Data and Deep Learning for High-Resolution Land Surface Temperature Gap-Filling Supporting Climate Change Adaptation Activities
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Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics.
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Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics
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Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics
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Inverted genomic regions between reference genome builds in humans impact imputation accuracy and decrease the power of association testing
An approach to identify SNVs located in the BBIS regions As of freeze 8 (r2) of the TOPMed imputation server (last accessed on August 31st, 2022), the server allows internal conversion of genome build so users can submit GWAS datasets for imputation without explicitly converting the coordinate from GRCh37 to GRCh38.
Association of Prenatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals With Liver Injury in Children
Association of Prenatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals With Liver Injury in Children | Endocrinology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network [Skip to Navigation] Figure 1. Prenatal Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical (EDC) Concentrations and Correlation Plot Error bars indicate 2*SE log (base = 2) concentration.
7 Key Factors to Help You Choose a Crypto Exchange
Trading cryptocurrency is complicated. You can make your life a lot easier by using a crypto exchange. But with so many options—including many that have been around just a few years—choosing the right one takes care. When cryptocurrencies first appeared, early adopters acquired coins through mining or by swapping them in online forums. But unless you have lots of time (and technical expertise), chances are you’ll want something more convenient.
How to Choose the Right Employee Benefits for 2022
Photo by unsplash/@christinawinter For employees, it’s not pumpkin spice season right now, it’s Open Enrollment season. That means it’s time to make the health and retirement plan choices that will be right for you in 2022. It isn’t easy, and many workers feel uneasy about choosing wisely. In its 2021 State of Work in America survey of 1,500 U.S. employees, the professional services firm Grant Thornton found that 36% of workers weren’t confident they’d chosen the best medical plan.
How To Choose The Right Employee Benefits For 2022 During Open Enrollment
By David Conti, Next Avenue getty For employees, it's not pumpkin spice season right now, it's Open Enrollment season. That means it's time to make the health and retirement plan choices that will be right for you in 2022. It isn't easy, and many workers feel uneasy about choosing wisely. In its 2021 State of Work in America survey of 1,500 U.S. employees, the professional services firm Grant Thornton found that 36% of workers weren't confident they'd chosen the best medical plan.
How to use a health savings account in retirement
A health savings account (HSA) lets you save money in a tax-advantaged account and then withdraw cash tax-free to pay for qualified medical expenses. Often, the money is used while you're working. But you can also use your HSA in retirement to help lower your out-of-pocket medical costs then. Doing so could help stretch your retirement savings, too.
Commentary: COVID patients should delay vaccination
By Neeraj Sood, Abigail Horn and David Conti Special to CalMatters President Joe Biden wants 100 million Americans vaccinated in 100 days, but scarce supplies and rollout snafus threaten to open a huge gap between ambition and achievement. There is a smarter and easier way to attain the same public health benefits: Ask the millions of people who have already survived the coronavirus infection to step to the back of the line for vaccines.
Researchers: Those previously infected with COVID-19 should delay getting a vaccination
President Joe Biden wants 100 million Americans vaccinated in 100 days, but scarce supplies and rollout snafus threaten to open a huge gap between ambition and achievement. There is a smarter and easier way to attain the same public health benefits: Ask the millions of people who have already survived the coronavirus infection to step to the back of the line for vaccines. Unfortunately, that is not the prevalent view of public health officials.
Replication and Genetic Risk Score Analysis for Pancreatic Cancer in a Diverse Multiethnic Population
Research Articles David Bogumil, David V. Conti, Xin Sheng, Lucy Xia, Xiao-ou Shu, Stephen J. Pandol, William J. Blot, Wei Zheng, Loïc Le Marchand, Christopher A. Haiman and Veronica Wendy Setiawan DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0963 Published December 2020 This article requires a subscription to view the full text. You may purchase access to this article or login to access your subscription using the links below.
Replication and Genetic Risk Score Analysis for Pancreatic Cancer in a Diverse Multiethnic Population
Research Article David Bogumil, David V. Conti, Xin Sheng, Lucy Xia, Xiao-ou Shu, Stephen J. Pandol, William J. Blot, Wei Zheng, Loic Le Marchand, Christopher A. Haiman and Veronica Wendy Setiawan DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0963 Abstract Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several SNPs associated with pancreatic cancer. No studies yet have attempted to replicate these SNPs in US minority populations.
Replication and Genetic Risk Score Analysis for Pancreatic Cancer in a Diverse Multiethnic Population
Research Article David Bogumil, David V. Conti, Xin Sheng, Lucy Xia, Xiao-Ou Shu, Steve J. Pandol, William J. Blot, Wei Zheng, Loic Le Marchand, Christopher A. Haiman and Veronica Wendy Setiawan DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0963 Abstract Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several SNPs associated with pancreatic cancer. No studies yet have attempted to replicate these SNPs in US minority populations.
Why COVID-19 vaccines should be given to kids before the elderly, according to 3 professors Original
Dana Goldman, David Conti, and Matthew E. Kahn are university professors and experts who have spent decades researching epidemiology and health economics. Although a COVID-19 vaccine is unlikely to become widely available for some time, when it does, they say that it should be given first to 'superspreaders,' aka young, school-aged children. They explain that this strategy will best way protect the most vulnerable because it will curb the spread of new infections.
Once We Have a COVID-19 Vaccine, Who Gets the First Shot?
Once safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are available, tough choices will need to be made about who gets the first shots. A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health – has proposed an equitable way to allocate the vaccine. They recommend first responders and health care workers take top priority.
The Young Should Get COVID-19 Vaccine Before the Old & Sick
By Dana Goldman, David Conti, and Matthew E. Kahn, The Conversation Once safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are available, tough choices will need to be made about who gets the first shots. A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health—has proposed an equitable way to allocate the vaccine. They recommend first responders and health care workers take top priority.
Why COVID-19 vaccines need to prioritize 'superspreaders'
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Once safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are available, tough choices will need to be made about who gets the first shots. A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health—has proposed an equitable way to allocate the vaccine. They recommend first responders and health care workers take top priority.
WHO says drug corticosteroids can save lives of people critically ill with COVID-19
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Readily available drugs, which dampen the runaway inflammatory response in patients severely ill with COVID-19, save lives, according to evidence released this week. An analysis by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which drew together results from several studies, confirms the benefit of this group of anti-inflammatory steroid drugs, known as corticosteroids.
Reply to Xiaoling Lin, Brian T. Helfand, and Jianfeng Xu's Letter to the Editor re: Daniel A. Leongamornlert, Edward J. Saunders, Sarah Wakerell, et al. Germline DNA Repair Gene Mutations in Young-onset Prostate Cancer Cases in the UK: Evidence for a More
To view the full text, please login as a subscribed user or purchase a subscription. Click here to view the full text on ScienceDirect. As Lin et al. note, at present the panel of genes for which germline pathogenic mutations are believed to contribute to a higher risk of prostate cancer (PCa) or aggressive disease is limited, and even for these putative candidates the supporting statistical evidence remains modest because of the rare nature of these variants.
Pittsburgh clothier David Alan builds business with e-commerce
His eponymous Pittsburgh-based company has no brick-and-mortar showrooms. His marketing of custom-made suits and a necktie accessory called the Proper Knot relies on them being worn by sports figures with big social media followings. The philosophy behind David Alan Clothing is much more old school, though.
Metallurgical coal sector experiences price bounce
A big bounce in prices has one sector of the coal industry using a word it has not uttered in several years: expansion. Benchmark prices for metallurgical coal, which is used to make the coke that fuels steel mills, have risen more than 50 percent since February to $130 per metric ton, ending what Corsa Coal CEO George Dethlefsen called the longest and steepest price decline for the carbon-rich rock in 60 years. Recent transactions on the spot market have topped $200.
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Anna Reynolds didn't feel far from home as a tour bus carried her and fellow visitors from Europe through the Marcellus shale fields of Western Pennsylvania into Ohio. “It seemed like it was very similar to the British countryside,” said Reynolds, a writer and former journalist from London, who noted how isolated and far from homes the Consol Energy drilling operation they visited was. That was part of the message organizers of last week's trip were trying to make.
Energy Spotlight: Dan Weaver
Dan Weaver grew up surrounded by the petroleum industry in Oil City. With the home of Edwin Drake's oil discovery nearby in Titusville and the former headquarters of companies such as Quaker State and Pennzoil right in town, Weaver recalls the days he could walk right up to a drilling rig and talk with the workers. “Everybody you knew was involved in one way or another with the industry,” he said.
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