The Trump administration is seeking to delay and perhaps dismantle the fiduciary rule. Originally scheduled to take effect in April, this rule would have legally required financial advisors handling 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts to make recommendations in the best interest of their clients, and not the most profitable investments for the advisor.
Whether the rule will be implemented is now unclear. Nonetheless, some financial advisors are already upholding the fiduciary standard.
Here’s how to find retirement planning advice you can trust:
If you had to give the nation’s nursing homes a letter grade for quality, what would it be?
Experts tend to sigh at this question and point out, correctly, that the country’s 15,600 facilities are vastly different — rural and urban, for-profit and nonprofit and government-run, home to the reasonably healthy and the extremely sick, high-quality operations and appalling ones. Assigning grades can be folly.
Do you know why 1776 is an important year in U.S. History? What about 1863? Do you know who Thurgood Marshall is? How about Robert E. Lee? With this quiz, find out if your American history skills are up to snuff!
March 25 is National Medal of Honor Day, a day that is dedicated to all Medal of Honor recipients.
The President, in the name of Congress, has awarded more than 3,400 Medals of Honor to our nation’s bravest Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen since the award was created in 1861.
Nineteen of these heroes received a second award, fourteen received two separate Medals for two separate actions and five received both the Navy and the Army Medals of Honor for the same action.
U.S. News & World Report website
It’s called a trust for a reason: You’re counting on this stand-alone legal entity to do something you can’t. You may want the trust to ensure that ownership of your assets or property will transfer to heirs smoothly and privately. You may want it to convey some tax advantages. You may think it can protect your assets from creditors.
Well, maybe. Maybe not.
From the CNBC website
I see this more and more often — a new retiree, or someone thinking about retiring shortly, asks me to review their retirement plan. They want to know: “Will I have enough?” After getting to know them and learning about their goals and what is important to them, I begin by reviewing their balance sheet and notice the $200,000 mortgage at 3.75 percent under the liabilities column.
From the NGAUS Washington Report
The Senate has joined the House by introducing legislation addressing inequalities in benefits for reserve-component members who deploy under the mobilization authority known as 12304b. Under 12304b, National Guard and Reserve members are ineligible for the health care, leave and retirement benefits they would earn under other mobilization authorities. Active-component members who might be serving alongside them receive their full benefits.
Chief William Parker, the Hawaii National Guard’s Senior Enlisted Leader sent an email about the upcoming DOD Retirement and Service Awards Luncheon Update. A quick summary follows.
The deadline for RSVPs is 1200 on Tuesday, March 28. If individuals do not RSVP by the deadline and still show up, they will not be allowed to eat because we must give a firm headcount to the vendor on March 28.
To view your invitation please click the link below. If you are unable to click on the link please copy and paste the address into your web browser.
https://einvitations.afit.edu/inv/anim.cfm?i=333705&k=0162410E7B52//SIGNED//
Date: Friday April 7, 2017
Time 1100-1330
Venue: Hawaii Okinawa Center
Cost: $28.00 per person, checks payable to “DOD Luncheon Award”
This is the status of honorees attending
I encourage everyone to come out and support our annual award winners and retirees.
William A. Parker, CMSgt, USAF-HING
Command Senior Enlisted Advisor
Hawaii National Guard
Comm: (808) 672-122
Cell: (808) 384-9424
L-R: Gerald “FANG” Aoki, Clarence “Mert” Agena, Richard Miyamoto, George “Jungle George” Sheraton, Galen Yoshimoto
The 1986 National Guard Association of the United States conference was held in Nashville, Tennessee. It was a three-day conference running from September 30 – October 2, 1986 at the Opryland Hotel.
The photograph of the Hawaii National Guard officers in the photograph above is from the All-States Dinner on the final night. At the dinner, Secretary of the Army John O. Marsh Jr., the Sectary of the Army received the Harry S. Truman Award for distinguished service in support of the national defense.
From the Samantha Brown website
TSA pre-check does alleviate some of the biggest headaches in travel. The line! Taking off your shoes! Cramming your toiletries into a teeny baggie! Fishing out your laptop and emptying your pockets and chugging every last sip of that bottle of water before you send your stuff through the little luggage carwash. I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
A group of hackers is threatening to wipe data from millions of Apple devices in two weeks if the company doesn’t pay them $150,000.
The group, which calls itself Turkish Crime Family, claims to have login credentials for more than 627 million icloud.com, me.com and mac.com email addresses. These are email domains that Apple has allowed for users creating iCloud accounts over the years.
Funeral services for Sam Kekuna, 69, will be on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at the Mililani Memorial Park (Makua Chapel). Visitation starts at 5 pm and services at 6 pm.
A private scattering of ashes will be held at a later date.
Retiree News extends heartfelt sympathy to Sam’s family and friends.
Thanks to Craig Makiya for emailing Retiree News with this information.
Sam’s photograph was taken at DOD Retirement Luncheon on August 22, 2008.
The 24-page March issue of the Kūkā‘ilimoku, the newsletter of the 154th Wing features:
+ Launa’Ole awards
+ Dedicated Crew Chiefs
+ Spring Break Makeover
+ plus more
The 154th Wing Public Affairs Office staff continues to produce a world-class publication. The staff includes:
2d Lt Justin Leong
TSgt Alison Bruce-Maldonado
SSgt James Ro
SrA Orlando Corpuz
A1C Robert Cabuco
A1C Stan Pak
Airman is the online magazine of the United States Air Force. The Defense Media Activity produces the magazine for the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Public Affairs.
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