Benefits are based on how much someone earns in their top 35 working years. So if there are fewer years in someone's career, their monthly retirement checks will be lower. Check out the other reasons clients could receive less.
Working longer can be a great decision, as it will allow seniors to keep themselves healthy as well as allow them to delay filing for Social Security benefits.
Buffett can put cash to better use than paying dividends. But the majority of CEOs lack his skill so investors and their advisors should be happy when corporate boards pay shareholder dividends.
Quality is a nebulous assessment and can change over the years — remember Sears? — but appears to portend outperformance using most companies’ measures.
Technology, materials and consumer shares paced a 1.7% gain in the S&P 500, while DowDuPont and Home Depot led a 567-point surge in the Dow, the biggest in two years.
