talking points
Tired of giving the same old presentations? Use these nuggets of information to spruce them up.
If you don’t pay your exorcist, will you be repossessed?
While many women in a recent survey admitted they lack an understanding of the fundamentals of retirement investing, that doesn’t mean they don’t want to learn. A Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies poll said 57% want more information and advice from their employers on how to reach goals, and 40% cited “a good starting point that is easy to understand” as something that would motivate them to learn more about retirement savings.
Fit men are 45% less likely to die of heart disease.
Male couch potatoes who work more than 40 hours a week could be just asking for heart trouble, a study finds. The study, led by Andreas Holtermann of the National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Copenhagen, found that physically fit men were 45% less likely to die of heart disease and 38% less likely to die of other causes than their unfit colleagues, according to a Bloomberg report.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – Dr. Seuss
Twenty-one percent of respondents to a CareerBuilder survey say they have had to make ends meet in the last year by cutting back their 401(k) contributions or personal savings. A CareerBuilder news release said 33% reported no retirement savings program participation and 30% said they don’t put any money aside into savings each month.
The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles long.