| Advice for Widows and Older Couples, Too There are "to do" lists, including budget and investment aids. But do not expect to be inundated with instructions on how to roll over retirement accounts, transfer ownership of assets,... | |
| Aging Senators and Gonchar a good fit By George Popalis, Contributing Editor Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - The Ottawa Senators have made the playoffs in 12 of the last 13 seasons and that's an impressive statistic. But for a city... |
| National Seniors Group RetireSafe Files Amicus Brief Joining Legal Effort to Stop New Physician Hospital Restrictions That Harm Medicare Beneficiaries WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today RetireSafe President Thair Phillips announced, on behalf of the organization's more than 400,000 senior-citizen supporters nationwide, that the... |
| Killer Of 21-Year-Old Woman Executed In Wash. WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- Convicted killer Cal Coburn Brown was executed early Friday by lethal injection for the rape, torture and murder of a Seattle-area woman, after delivering a statement forgiving... |
| Officers go beyond duty to help seniors As kids of all ages head back to the books this week, kitchens, bedrooms and dorm rooms around the city are taking on double duty as study... |
| Forest Lawn seniors grill mayoral candidates on City Hall spending A 12-person debate was short on specifics and high on drama Thursday, as Calgary's mayoral candidates tried to sway seniors' votes at the Greater Forest Lawn 55+ Society. Spectators challenged the... |
| USC freshman receiver Woods playing older than his years When USC freshman wide receiver Robert Woods ate lunch during training camp, he often sat alone and studied his playbook. When he went home from practice Wednesday night, the first thing he did was... |
| Contentious plan for sagging UC pension fund A tidal wave of unfunded retirement obligations that could top $40 billion in four years is washing over the University of California, forcing employees to pay far more for those benefits and... |
| New Study Shows Significant Changes Occurring In The Sociodemographic Conditions Of Older Admissions To Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions for substance abuse treatment among those aged 50 and older have more than doubled, and their sociodemographic characteristics have significantly changed, between 1992 and 2008, according... |
| Kennedy Krieger Institute Awarded $8.5 Million To Study Aging And Dementia In Adults With Down Syndrome Alzheimer's disease can be difficult to distinguish from the normal aging process in any older adult. For adults with Down syndrome, who are particularly vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease, it is even... |
| Study Says Aging Reduces Centromere Cohesion, Disrupts Reproduction University of Pennsylvania biologists studying human reproduction have identified what is likely the major contributing factor to the maternal age-associated increase in aneuploidy, the term for an... |
| Neck stents may hike risk of stroke in older patients LONDON Stroke patients over 70 who get stents to keep their arteries open may be doubling their risk of having another stroke or dying compared to patients who get surgery instead, a new study... |
| Falls Prevention Study Looks At The Differences Between Indoor And Outdoor Falls In The Elderly The risk factors for indoor and outdoor falls for older adults are different, according to a new study by the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical... |
| Molecular Gatekeeper Of Arthritis Identified arthritis in mice, scientists report in a study published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine. The newly discovered gatekeeper is a protein that determines the fate - survival or death - of... |
| Namibia: Civil Society, Labour Want Answers on Pension Fund Money CIVIL society yesterday joined the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) in calling for a presidential inquiry into the lost millions of the Government Institutions Pensions Fund (GIPF) through... |
| Trio Of Seniors Lead Lady Lions Into District JOHN TYLER begins District 14-4A play today against Jacksonville. Pictured (from left) are seniors Shakendra Mumphrey, GabriElla Wilson and Chelsea Black. ... |
| Namibia: Pension Fund Loan Riddled With Discrepancies The Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa) in 2007 called for a forensic investigation into Omaheke Tannery and Leather Processing (OTLP), after the company apparently used... |
| A "Tipping Point" for Public Pensions? Speech by Edward Siedle, Benchmark Financial Services TEXPERS 2009 Summer Educational Conference August 25, 2009 Any discussion of the serious issues affecting public pension funds today must begin... |
| Obesity May Up Death Risk in Older Women With Colon Cancer THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Here's yet another reason to avoid obesity throughout your life: Doing so may improve your chances of survival if you're diagnosed with colon cancer. Women past... |
| 234,354 centenarians unaccounted for among missing elderly TOKYO — A total of 234,354 centenarians are unaccounted for across Japan despite still being registered as alive under the family registry system, the government said Friday based on its... |
| Four dead in attack on China old people's home BEIJING, September 10 - Four people died and two others were injured in an attack at an old people's home in northeastern China on Friday which left the building on fire, a city official said. The... |
| Securities Lending By Pensions: An Emerging Duty of Best Execution in Securities Lending? The July 2008 alert includes two articles that deal with the esoteric subject of securities lending by retirement plans. For those of you that are unfamiliar with securities lending, generally... |
| PBGC Pension Termination: A Worker's Perspective by Terry O'Rourke, United airlines What is the effect upon participants in a pension plan when the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation takes over the plan and replaces company pensions with PBGC pensions? This month’s article... |
| The Long Overdue Florida Public Pension Clean-Up In 2002 we gave a speech at the annual Florida Police and Firefighters Pension Trustee Educational Seminar entitled, “The Best Investment Advice: Fundamental Truths about the Business of... |
| A Nation on the Precipice: Our Failed Retirement System A full-page insurance company advertisement in a financial newspaper today read, “Bald, helpless and broke is how to start life. Not finish it.” The ad went on to warn that many people... |
| SEC Takes Action Against Pension Advisers Callan and Yanni As discussed in the New York Times article below, a cease-and-desist order was issued this week against a large pension consulting firm, Callan Associates, for failing to disclose to clients that it... |
| GAO Report Estimates Cost of Pension Consultant Conflicts: 1.3% of $4.5 trillion. “there are no harmless kick-backs. Performance always suffers whenever “pay-to-play” determines which managers are hired. We have found that consultant conflicts can cost a fund... |
| Pensions Perilously Binging Upon Hedge Funds Pension Perilously Binging Upon Hedge Funds, Funds of Funds and Funds of Funds of Funds As pensions load up on multi-tiered hedge fund products created and recommended by their so-called independent... |
| 99-year-old woman sexually assaulted in Australia MELBOURNE: A 99-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and beaten up in this Australian city by a man, suspected to be in his teens or early 20s, who forced his way into her home, police said. The sex... |
| Retirement home attacked, four dead FOUR people died and two others were injured in an attack at an old people's home in northeastern China today which left the building on fire, a city official... |
| Jessamy says challenger would take Baltimore back to 1950s Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy has been asserting that her primary opponent would "set us back 60 years" if elected, an assertion that may be resonating among some voters as... |
| Ohio pension fund trips cost $1M COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's five public retirement systems spent more than $1 million on travel to conferences during a one-year period while the economy continued to squeeze the funds' pension... |
| Problems Areas for Pensions: 457/403; Custodial Services; Minority/Emerging Managers There are two separate articles presented below. Special Problems Areas for Pensions Project 457/403(b); Project Custodial Services; Project Minority/Emerging Managers Based upon an unprecedented... |
| Secrets of the DOL and PBGC: What Happens When Pensions are Taken Over by the Government? Corporation (“PBGC”), AMFA requested that the PBGC conduct a forensic audit of the pension plans of bankrupt United, a subsidiary of UAL. While the PBGC has taken over the pension plans of many... |
| Protecting Our Pensions: Lessons of the Mutual Fund Scandals There are five separate articles presented below: Florida Public Pension Fraud Update; Protecting Pensions: Lessons of the Mutual Fund Scandals; and three articles from the New York Times and Miami... |
| International Campaign to Eliminate Pension Consultant Abuses Letter to the Editor of Global Pensions magazine regarding the condition of America’s pensions and the text of a speech entitled “The High Cost of Pension Consultant Corruption.” ... |
| 78-year-old woman solves third murder case For the third time in a life of public service, the 78-year-old widow has helped detectives to close the book on a killing - this time the murder of a police officer in 1933.Mrs Campbell, who... |
| Time's Running Out For America's Pensions In 2003 Time’s Running Out For America’s Pensions; The 6-Step Pension Fund Clean-up Time may be running out for the nation’s pensions. While many of the investment scams perpetrated in the... |
| NASD Non-Disclosure Endangers Nation's Pensions February 1, 2003) Publisher Drops Appeal of NASD Victory February 2003 Alert “We have the technology to combat fraud in the securities industry. However, we cannot protect investors as long as a gang of... |
| Why Pension Investment Advisory Fees Are So High As a result of investment consultant conflicts of interest, lack of informed negotiations with managers and manager non-compliance with “most favored nation’s” clauses, many of the... |
| Teens arrested for robbing elderly woman WINTER PARK -- Four high school students are under arrest after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper watches them rob an elderly woman and then make a run for it. The robbery locked down Winter Park... |
| Elderly man with Alzheimer's missing, says family -- A 79-year-old local man has been missing for several hours after disappearing at a grocery store Thursday afternoon. The Alzheimer's Association sent notice that the family of John Hussey last... |
| French PM: more changes would derail pension reform PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon ruled out Thursday offering more concessions to trade unions on a planned pension reform, saying this would derail efforts to balance a system... |
| French PM Says More Changes Would Derail Pension Reform Francois Fillon ruled out Thursday offering more concessions to trade unions on a planned pension reform, saying this would derail efforts to balance a system costing billions of euros each year. ... |
| Personal Finance Daily: Fix the retirement system? Good luck with that To know China, see the world through its eyes The President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board recently offered up a report detailing eight ways to fix the U.S. retirement system, including... |
