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Jessica Hall is a retirement reporter for MarketWatch. She was an Age Boom Academy Fellow with Columbia University and completed the Leadership Exchange on Ageism. She previously worked at Mainebiz, the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, where she and her team earned a Scripps Howard Award for Community Journalism for a series on aging. She spent 17 years at Reuters, covering mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications and airlines. She started her career in Baltimore at The Daily Record and Baltimore Business Journal. She has freelanced for Barron’s and other publications.

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When Susie Felber’s primary care physician left to start a concierge practice last year, Felber didn’t initially follow her doctor, even though she loved her. Felber felt like she didn’t really understand concierge medicine and assumed she couldn’t afford it. “The word ‘concierge,’” Felber says, “I just figured I needed a limo to be able to go to concierge medicine.”Then Felber had a health crisis, and she researched what concierge care would cost and how it worked. She found that after paying an upfront fee, she could see or text her doctor anytime, and her doctor had the time to…

Kraken is one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges.Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesKraken confidentially filed to go public in the U.S., a person familiar with the matter told CNBC on Wednesday. A Kraken spokesperson declined to comment on the timing of its plans. Kraken is the latest crypto company to attempt to tap the public market since President Donald Trump came back to the White House. Crypto trading platforms Bullish and Gemini Space Station listed their shares on major stock exchanges in August and September, respectively. And in June, stablecoin issuer Circle raised just north of $1 billion…

Citizens Financial Group, the Providence, R.I.-based parent of Citizens Bank with about $223 billion in assets, has expanded its private wealth business in Southern California with the addition of an $880 million team led by Eric Bradley, formerly of Citi Private Alternatives.Based in Newport Beach, Calif., Bradley Wealth Partners will focus on serving next-generation and ultra-high-net-worth clients on the West Coast. The team includes Bradley as wealth manager and Megan Dia as associate wealth manager, a duo that has worked together for eight years. They will continue to offer similar services, including financial planning, private banking and commercial banking.Citizens has…

In This Article It may sound like a creation from a science fiction movie, but digital twin technology has been around for a while. It’s used in a variety of industries, from manufacturing to medical and the military. However, its latest application is particularly relevant to real estate investors, as it could dramatically reduce the cost of soaring home insurance premiums. Insurance costs in climate-challenged areas like Florida and California have escalated dramatically in recent years. Last year, a Silicon Valley-based company composed of tech veterans launched Stand Insurance to help address the issue. The company used artificial intelligence (AI)-generated…

Key Takeaways If you contribute the 2026 individual retirement account (IRA) limit of $7,500 every year from age 27 to 67, investing fully in an S&P 500 index fund, you could end up with roughly $1.38 million, assuming that past annual inflation-adjusted returns match future ones. A more conservative 60/40 portfolio of U.S. stocks and bonds, respectively, would yield a much smaller nest egg—just over $882,000—with an average annual return of 4.89%. In 2026, you can contribute up to $7,500 to you IRAs, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). (If you’re 50 or older, you can contribute $1,100 more…

Key Takeaways ChatGPT offered solid guidance about considering your time horizon when deciding where to put $10,000 in savings. But when we we asked ChatGPT for the highest rates it could find, its top pick trailed Investopedia’s in almost every major savings category. Because our team checks rates from 200+ institutions every business day, Investopedia’s savings and CD rankings stay fresher and go deeper than what ChatGPT can quickly surface. What ChatGPT Got Right About Saving $10K When we asked ChatGPT where to park $10,000 in savings, it didn’t give reckless or inaccurate advice. In fact, it started by asking…

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