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Obits for the traditional investing approach may be premature, according to a newsletter for Vanguard investors.

Dan DeMichele is the vice president of product management for LastPass. Dan has more than 20 years of experience leading both development and product management software teams for small startups and large corporations, bringing disruptive technologies to market and achieving commercial success. Prior to joining LastPass, Dan led product management at IBM, building out all consumable data and analytics services for Watson Cloud. He also held previous product leadership roles at Cloudant, IBM (Coremetrics), Unica, BEA, and Plumtree Software.

Megan Murdock is a Director in CBIZ’s National Learning & Development Practice.

The 90-year-old employee shot a co-worker in the bank's Oklahoma City offices.

While some social media and game-like aspects of trading have negative connotations, they can be responsible tools for attracting the trillions millennials and Gen Z-ers are inheriting.

For the last 100 years, the transactions have helped ensure the continuity of an original investment, with wide-ranging economic benefits.

John Starling is the senior vice president of Northern Bank’s 1031 Exchange and helps people and business entities preserve profit and build wealth faster through tax-deferred exchange.

Randy Kaston is the director of Business Law Group at Ligris + Associates. Her practice concentrates on all aspects of commercial and residential transactions, including representing lenders in closing complex commercial, asset-based, real estate, construction and SBA loans, as well as business lines of credit.

Even stodgy Wall Street brokerages are loosening up as they try to win the war for talent.

Lamine Zarrad is the founder and CEO of StellarFi, a credit builder that reports unlimited bill payments to the three major credit bureaus. Since 2008, Lamine has worked in various financial services roles, launching his career with Merrill Lynch and later transitioning to the public sector as a National Banker Examiner at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Prior to Stellar, Lamine founded FinTechs Tokken and Joust. The latter was acquired by ZenBusiness where Lamine led the product organization through two fund raises, minting the company as one of the few Austin Unicorns. At StellarFi, Lamine and his team are on a mission to disrupt the U.S. poverty cycle and provide credit access to 132 million Americans with low or no credit. Lamine has been awarded a Bachelors in Business Administration in International Business and Russian Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Masters of Public Affairs degree with a focus on Policy Analysis/Public Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. Lamine was born in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan and came to the United States as a refugee prior to serving in the Marine Corps. Lamine speaks four languages and resides in Austin, Texas with his family.