Finance

...According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s 2020 Retirement Confidence Survey, 61% of respondents said that preparing for retirement made them feel stressed. [If that is you then planning for retirement will be much easier if you avoid the following 6 "retirement killers".]

...Planning ahead for what will happen to your estate after you die is important [and] there are a number of things you can do right now to make sure...[you] leave a lucrative inheritance for your loved ones...

Although living trusts can streamline the disposition of your estate, there are plenty of opportunities to make costly missteps, particularly when it comes to transferring your assets to a trust. This article address the ins and outs of setting up a living trust.

Paying fees based on your assets under management may be costing you dearly. Consider a flat fee method instead. This article underscores the differences between the two and why a flat fee approach is the way to go.

The USD’s days of unchallenged dominance are quickly coming to an end - something even the Fed Chairman openly admits - which means we are likely on the cusp of a historic financial earthquake that could alter that direction of the U.S. forever and mark the biggest economic event of our lifetimes.

...It was announced on Friday that the Moscow Exchange would be resuming trading at least to some degree as of the market open on Monday, after having been shuttered on February 25 following the invasion of Ukraine.

Russia's billionaires are outstandingly rich compared to the size of the Russian economy that generated that wealth and, relatively, to those in other countries.

Gold, commodities, Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) or maybe bitcoin come to mind when thinking of inflation hedges. While all tend to work to some extent, each has its own quirks, and none cleanly moves in lockstep with inflation [but have you ever thought of investing in Series I savings bonds, or I bonds?

 According to calculations by the Kiel Institute, sanctions against the following sectors would most adversely affect Russia's GDP:

There are 862 individual SWIFT codes of Russian origin, belonging to somewhere around 300 financial institutions out of a total in the bank network of 11,000 and removing them from the network would prevent those banks from using the network to facilitate transfers.