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Retirees Urged to Review Target-Date Funds for Adequate Savings
BusinessNYT13d ago

Retirees Urged to Review Target-Date Funds for Adequate Savings

While target-date funds offer simplicity, many workers nearing retirement, particularly baby boomers, could find themselves short on savings. Experts advise checking these funds, especially for those planning to retire soon, as their design may not adequately prepare for retirement.

We're entering the golden age of baby boomer estate sales
BusinessBusiness Insider25d ago

We're entering the golden age of baby boomer estate sales

Elena Noviello/Getty Images People love to complain about baby boomers, including that they have a lot of stuff. They're hoarding all the houses, they're keeping all the money, they're materialists who have accumulated an exorbitant amount of possessions. There are a couple of problems with these gripes: For one, no generation is a monolith, and everybody amasses things over the course of their lives, so back off. But more importantly, youths and slightly-beyond-youths, the stuff pileup is a...

Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester review – a battle between millennials and boomers
CultureThe Guardian1mo ago

Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester review – a battle between millennials and boomers

There are sharply observed pleasures to be found in this black comedy of infidelity, revenge and intergenerational tension – but the plot is both implausible and predictable John Lanchester has distinguished between his nonfiction and his novels as the line between “things happening in the world” and “the things that won’t leave you alone”. Over the last decade and a half that gap appears to have narrowed. His 2012 bestseller, Capital, used the global economic crisis (explained with character...

South Korea's Birthrate Rises for Second Consecutive Year
WorldFTThe Guardianchannel-news-asia1mo ago3 sources

South Korea's Birthrate Rises for Second Consecutive Year

South Korea's birthrate has increased for the second year in a row, with experts attributing the rebound partly to 'echo boomers' born between 1991 and 1995 reaching their early thirties. The country recorded 254,500 births in 2025, marking the largest annual increase in 15 years.

I'm 39 but just started contributing to a 401(k) account. I have what I call 'retirement planning paralysis.'
FinancewsjBusiness Insiderforbes+1Yahoo1mo ago4 sources

I'm 39 but just started contributing to a 401(k) account. I have what I call 'retirement planning paralysis.'

The author has always struggled to plan for retirement. Courtesy of Emily Achler In my 20s and 30s, I tried to live in the present and ignored retirement planning. Now that I'm about to turn 40, I've started contributing to a 401(k), but I'm behind. I still have to combine my past retirement accounts, but I'm fighting retirement planning paralysis. I'm 39, and my retirement plan is haphazard, chaotic, and borderline nonexistent. I feel a lot of shame around this fact because I should know b...