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HSA assets top $174 B in 2025 as investment accounts surge
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (674+ words) Health savings accounts closed out 2025 holding nearly $174 billion across 41. 7 million accounts, according to year-end data from Devenir. Total assets climbed 19% year-over-year, even as the pace of new account openings held steady at 6%. The most striking movement came through in HSA…...
Insurer's shares plummet with profit warning
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (800+ words) Shares in Sun Life Financial Inc. tumbled as much as 8. 5 per cent on Friday after the insurer warned it would fall short of a key 2025 profit target for its U. S. dental business, citing a slowdown in Medicaid funding negotiations and rising…...
Health savings account contributions, investments can be boosted by one key thing
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (368+ words) With American retirees living longer, but likely requiring increased health care provision, the importance of ensuring that retirement planning includes health costs is clear. But while health savings accounts offer solution that combines retirement and health care savings in one…...
The average retiree is facing $173 K in health care costs, Fidelity says
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (663+ words) The financial cost of care for retirees has gotten higher than ever, with new research from Fidelity Investments indicating Americans are ill-prepared to cope with the financial toll of medication, medical care, and health insurance in retirement. According to Fidelity's…...
After One Big Beautiful Bill saga, business exit planning still mostly 'business as usual"
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (768+ words) To describe the past few months' worth of news over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which has now officially been signed into law, one might consider butchering that famous Shakespearean phrase: "full of sound and fury, signifying not much....
Extending Trump tax cuts would deepen wealth gap, experts warn
1+ year, 3+ week ago (628+ words) As the Trump administration moves to extend sweeping tax cuts enacted in 2017, new research suggests the benefits may continue to flow disproportionately to the country's wealthiest households " raising concerns among economists and policy analysts about the growing concentration of wealth…...
Financial caregiving is a challenge that more advisors need to address
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (560+ words) The number of American households with financial caregiving responsibilities is growing and is increasingly impacting younger, affluent cohorts. But while the issue involves 36 million households out of the 131 million across the US, who are responsible for the finances of a…...
Family caregivers face money setbacks and more: Edward Jones
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (775+ words) As millions of Americans take on caregiving duties for loved ones, a new study from Edward Jones, in partnership with Morning Consult and Age Wave, reveals the long-lasting financial and emotional toll of caregiving " and underscores the growing need for…...
Nationwide finds Medicare myth on long-term care could cost Americans dearly
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (746+ words) As the US population continues to age, a growing number of Americans are ill-prepared for the financial realities of long-term care, according to new findings from Nationwide. Based on its 2025 Nationwide Retirement Institute Long-Term Care survey, the insurance giant found…...
Morningstar study on long-term care costs gets pushback from think tank
11+ mon, 5+ day ago (659+ words) Assumptions of dour retirement outcomes from paying for long-term services and support are patently divorced from reality, argues the American Enterprise Institute. A new Morningstar report warns that long-term care expenses could dramatically undermine the financial readiness of American retirees....