As many retirees have guessed, due to rising inflation, the Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) may increase significantly just to keep up. More than halfway through the year, it has not been easy so far for many seniors. Inflation has taken a toll on everyone’s finances amid falling stocks and what many believe… Read More »

Each of us have logged tens of thousands of hours serving the most critical communications companies during our careers to lead productive and rewarding lives. The next or perhaps current chapter – retirement – comes about quickly as a dramatic and overwhelming change of pace. It’s where we find ourselves with “more time” than we… Read More »

  Corporate pension “de-risking” is growing into what might be one of the greatest threats to retirement security of all time. Pension de-risking is the off-loading of pension liabilities to insurance companies often through the purchase of a group annuity contract. In the last decade hundreds of billions (yes, that’s billions with a “B”) of… Read More »

The following is Thomas Steed’s Fall 2022 Chairman’s Report: My Fellow Retirees & Current Employees, I hope you and your families have had a wonderful summer. In many ways, due to COVID, some of us feel we have lost or been deprived of so much over the last two years. Perhaps, we more keenly appreciate… Read More »