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Barry Koslow Addresses NYSAE Non Profit CEO Forum

Posted by Barry Koslow on Fri, Jan, 29, 2016 @ 11:01 AM

MKA Executive Planners President and CEO Barry Koslow discussed new approaches to supplemental retirement plans at a recent nonprofit executive compensation workshop hosted by the New York Society of Association Executives (NYSAE).

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Tags: Supplemental Retirement Plan, Executive Compensation

Huffington Post column: The rise of the multi-generational home

Posted by Barry Koslow on Mon, May, 18, 2015 @ 16:05 PM

The Huffington Post has published a new article by Barry Koslow focused on the possible increase in the number of four-generation homes because of changing demographics and financial situations.

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Tags: Supplemental Retirement Plan, Retirement Planning, Annuities

Huffington Post column: 4 Key Variables of the Retirement Equation

Posted by Barry Koslow on Thu, Jan, 29, 2015 @ 14:01 PM

 The Huffington Post has published a new article by Barry Koslow in which he reviews four key questions to consider before retirement.

“Thinking about and planning for retirement is fraught with emotion, and this emotion can get in the way of rational decision-making. I call it an emotional root canal,” he writes in the article posted on the Huff Post Money and Financial Education pages. “Reaching a resolution on these four considerations is, I believe, the key to a happy and secure retirement.”

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Tags: Supplemental Retirement Plan, Funded Retirement Income, Retirement Planning

Huffington Post column: Five Reasons a comfortable retirement is more uncertain than ever

Posted by Barry Koslow on Wed, Jan, 07, 2015 @ 14:01 PM

The Huffington Post has posted a new article by Barry Koslow in which he draws on the lessons of Detroit’s bankruptcy and describes the increased pressures on retirees and people trying to save enough for retirement.

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Tags: Supplemental Retirement Plan, Funded Retirement Income, Retirement Planning

Huffington Post column: Past performance teaches us plenty about saving for future retirement

Posted by Barry Koslow on Mon, Sep, 22, 2014 @ 09:09 AM

The Huffington Post has published a blog post by Barry Koslow in which he reviews the rises and falls of the savings history of Americans – from the early industrial era to the Great Depression, to our more recent economic meltdown – and tells readers that personal responsibility is essential to ensuring that we won’t outlive our resources in retirement.

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Tags: Supplemental Retirement Plan, Retirement Planning

Boston Herald Column: Retirement Systems Don’t Add Up

Posted by Barry Koslow on Fri, Aug, 01, 2014 @ 12:08 PM

The Boston Herald recently published an opinion piece by Barry Koslow that focuses on some of the problems the Massachusetts retirement system is facing. Here’s how the piece begins:
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Tags: Supplemental Retirement Plan, Funded Retirement Income, Retirement Planning

Boston Globe Column: Why are Deferred Compensation and Supplemental Retirement Plans Critic Targets?

Posted by Barry Koslow on Fri, Aug, 01, 2014 @ 12:08 PM

Periodically, activists and the press engage in challenging the value of executives and their compensation, especially for executives at not-for-profit organizations or non-stock for-profits such as mutual banks and insurance companies.

Whether it is salary or benefits like deferred compensation and supplemental retirement plans, the argument is that somehow the compensation for these folks should not be like that for the same positions at similarly sized organizations in the for-profit sector.  These arguments often come from those who see numbers and not the challenges and successes that take place in the trenches on an ongoing basis.

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Tags: Supplemental Retirement Plan, Deferred Compensation Plans, Executive Compensation