Thursday, December 12, 2013

Congressional Commitee Addresses 'Retirement Crisis'

One of the greatest services that retirement planners can do for their clients is to advise them to delay receiving Social Security benefits until beyond age 62, according to recent testimony before the Congressional Special Committee on Aging.

Addressing what it calls a “retirement crisis,” the Special Committee on Aging met recently to hear testimony on the “State of the American Senior: The Changing Landscape for Baby Boomers.” The meeting was led by Chairman Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-ME).

(Read my complete article at Think Advisor)

Learning to Live With Recycled Email Accounts

Earlier this year, news that Yahoo intended to recycle dormant email addresses was initially greeted with a largely favorable response.

“Get the Yahoo email address of your dreams at Yahoo’s wish list,” said Joanne Stern on Good Morning America, for example.

But the move soon opened up debate on whether Yahoo was inviting privacy invasions, as some users reported getting unwanted emails intended for someone else.

(Read my complete article at Internet Evolution)

A crisis in physician recruitment

Over the next seven years, an estimated 6.5 million new healthcare jobs will be have to be filled, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A large number of those positions will be for physicians.

Healthcare HR managers will find it challenging to fill the majority of new jobs in the fast-growing healthcare industry, which will be for nurses, aides, and support staff. But it’s the need for more physicians that doesn’t bode well for the industry, based on the current state of physician hiring.

(Read my complete article at Healthcare Finance News)

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Successfully Educating Your Clients on Long-Term Care

As a society we are living longer, and we are living with medical issues longer. This places greater need for long term care insurance policies – insurance that covers the gaps left by Medicare and other assistance programs.

At the same time, a growing number of insurance companies are getting out of the long-term care business. Quite simply, it has become nearly impossible to forecast what individuals will need for health assistance, and what that assistance will cost, 20, 30 or 40 years into the future.

(Read my entire article at Think Advisor)

Health Care a Critical Part of Retirement Strategy

When it comes to retirement planning, a majority of customers consider health care coverage to be a critical part of their overall strategy. But most say they have limited understanding of health care issues today, and a small minority understand the importance of long term care protection. Those are among the findings of a new research study entitled “2013 Retirement Planning Study,” sponsored by Nationwide Financial and conducted by Summit Professional Networks and ThinkAdvisor.

(Read my entire article at Think Advisor)

Graphene Key to Cheaper, More Efficient Supercomputers?

In the era of supercomputers, the race is on to make the massive machines cheaper to build and more efficient to operate. And new research is suggesting that emerging material graphene, which is a one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms laid out as a mesh of hexagons, could help do both.

(Read my complete article at GoParallel)