The post This Company Aims to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Retirement Industry — By Fixing a Costly Blind Spot by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga . Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. For decades, retirement planning has been marketed as an investment game: pick the right funds, beat the market, and stay invested long enough. But a growing body of research suggests ...
The post This Company Aims to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Retirement Industry — By Fixing a Costly Blind Spot by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga . Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. For decades, retirement planning has been marketed as an investment game: pick the right funds, beat the market, and stay invested long enough. But a growing body of research suggests one of the biggest retirement risks for many Americans isn’t market performance at all — it’s taxes. Despite trillions of dollars under management across the retirement industry, most Americans approach retirement “tax-blind,” with little clarity around how much of their savings they’ll actually keep after required withdrawals, capital gains, and future tax brackets are factored in. Finance Advisors is building a consumer platform designed to address that problem. The company offers a free matching tool that connects Americans with vetted financial advisors who specialize in tax-aware retirement planning, a level of sophistication historically reserved for high-net-worth households. Rather than selling products or portfolios, Finance Advisors focuses on improving outcomes by helping consumers find fiduciary advisors whose planning centers on after-tax income, withdrawal sequencing, and long-term tax efficiency. A Platform Built From Inside the Industry Finance Advisors was founded by Jake Romine, a longtime wealth-management marketing executive who has worked closely with advisory firms since 2018, most recently serving as CRO of a registered investment advisory firm founded by a former PayPal executive. Earlier in his career, Romine was exposed to the incentive structures that dominate much of the retirement industry, including product-driven compensation models and sales-first priorities. That experience helped shape Finance Advisors’ core thesis: most Americans don’t need more financial products; they need better planning and better-aligned incentives. The platform was d...
As it does at the end of every quarter, the electric vehicle and robotaxi company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported its EV deliveries before actually releasing its full quarterly results. Tesla once again reported disappointing deliveries of 358,023 for the first quarter of 2026, below the 370,000 that Wall Street analysts had expected. To make matters worse, there's another problem brewing. Image sou...
As it does at the end of every quarter, the electric vehicle and robotaxi company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported its EV deliveries before actually releasing its full quarterly results. Tesla once again reported disappointing deliveries of 358,023 for the first quarter of 2026, below the 370,000 that Wall Street analysts had expected. To make matters worse, there's another problem brewing. Image source: Tesla. Continue reading
Like most technology-centric companies, Latin America's e-commerce powerhouse MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) is using artificial intelligence to improve its results. As CFO Martín de los Santos commented during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call , "We are seeing clear evidence that our investments in artificial intelligence are accelerating revenue." The numbers confirm his claim. On a consta...
Like most technology-centric companies, Latin America's e-commerce powerhouse MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) is using artificial intelligence to improve its results. As CFO Martín de los Santos commented during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call , "We are seeing clear evidence that our investments in artificial intelligence are accelerating revenue." The numbers confirm his claim. On a constant-currency basis, MercadoLibre's Q4 revenue growth accelerated to a year-over-year pace of 47%. Also like so many other companies investing in AI, however, this one's spending is uncomfortably steep. Although MercadoLibre didn't detail exactly how much it invested in artificial intelligence last year, these outlays are a big reason that this company's 2025 net income only improved about half as much as its sales did. That's the chief reason its stock is down 35% from last May's peak. Continue reading
Sometimes, a single number can stop investors cold in their tracks. Slap a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 106 on any stock and Wall Street's conventional wisdom yells, "Run for the hills." But what if the stock market's conventional wisdom is losing its relevance, given how rapidly artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything? In my view, Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) is...
Sometimes, a single number can stop investors cold in their tracks. Slap a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 106 on any stock and Wall Street's conventional wisdom yells, "Run for the hills." But what if the stock market's conventional wisdom is losing its relevance, given how rapidly artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything? In my view, Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) is not a software company trading at an unsustainable premium. Instead, it is something the market has never really witnessed before -- and the valuation tools investors are applying to the stock were never designed to price it. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with a delegation of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party led by its chairwoman Cheng Li-wun in Beijing, capital of China, April 10, 2026. Photo: Xinhua Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met with a delegation led by Kuomintang chairwoman Cheng Li-wun in Beijing ...
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with a delegation of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party led by its chairwoman Cheng Li-wun in Beijing, capital of China, April 10, 2026. Photo: Xinhua Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met with a delegation led by Kuomintang chairwoman Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on April 10, marking the first in-person dialogue between the heads of the two political parties in a decade. Welcoming the delegation, Xi noted that the renewed high-level talks hold significant weight for the trajectory of interparty and cross-strait relations. He emphasized that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to the same Chinese nation, sharing a common history, civilization, and an enduring belief that their territory cannot be divided.
Phoebe Dynevor and Djimon Hounsou are left adrift in a suspense-free dud that has cycled through two distributors and three titles Due to the sheer amount of money Netflix has to play with (last year it spent around $18bn on content) and the ever-increasing number of subscribers it must satiate, the streamer often acts as a home for the unwanted goods of others, a digital island of misfit toys. At...
Phoebe Dynevor and Djimon Hounsou are left adrift in a suspense-free dud that has cycled through two distributors and three titles Due to the sheer amount of money Netflix has to play with (last year it spent around $18bn on content) and the ever-increasing number of subscribers it must satiate, the streamer often acts as a home for the unwanted goods of others, a digital island of misfit toys. At one stage, shark thriller Beneath the Storm was being primed for a theatrical release by Sony, shot back in 2024. The following year it was renamed Shiver and slated for an August premiere. Cut to 2026 and it’s now known as Thrash, unceremoniously off-loaded to Netflix instead. While this might not be the most encouraging Wikipedia description of a technically new film, it’s also not always a cause for concern. Back in 2018, David Ellison found Alex Garland’s stylish and scary sci-fi thriller Annihilation “too intellectual” so passed it to Netflix for the majority of international territories. In early Covid, Disney sold the unusually excellent Fear Street trilogy to Netflix. Just last year, Netflix saw its biggest hit to date with KPop: Demon Hunters, a film that had originally been intended for a Sony release. But Thrash is not a fellow exception to the rule; if anything, it acts as the very definition of what the rule usually is: a messily made, choppily edited and entirely misfiring cavalcade of bad decisions and dodgy accents. I just hope Netflix got it on the cheap … Continue reading...
Anish Giri won two games in a row to advance into second place, but has little chance of overhauling the leader Javokhir Sindarov extended his lead at the world championship Candidates in Cyprus on Thursday when the 20-year-old Uzbek grandmaster won for the sixth time at the event to take his overall total to an unbeaten eight points out of 10, two ahead of his closest challenger, the Netherlands ...
Anish Giri won two games in a row to advance into second place, but has little chance of overhauling the leader Javokhir Sindarov extended his lead at the world championship Candidates in Cyprus on Thursday when the 20-year-old Uzbek grandmaster won for the sixth time at the event to take his overall total to an unbeaten eight points out of 10, two ahead of his closest challenger, the Netherlands No 1, Anish Giri. India’s Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu had prepared a sharp and complex defence to the Queen’s Gambit with an early push of his g and h pawns, but he blundered at move 22 and Sindarov was able to acquire a queen and several pawns for two ineffective rooks. Continue reading...
With the BMA making ‘impossible’ demands and Labour responding with Trumpian threats, negotiations are stuck – and it’s the NHS that will suffer What’s the off-ramp? When I ask one of the negotiating team close to the health secretary, the bleak answer is, “I don’t know.” Resident doctors in England are on another strike , for six days this time. Labour arrived in office bearing a 22.3% pay rise t...
With the BMA making ‘impossible’ demands and Labour responding with Trumpian threats, negotiations are stuck – and it’s the NHS that will suffer What’s the off-ramp? When I ask one of the negotiating team close to the health secretary, the bleak answer is, “I don’t know.” Resident doctors in England are on another strike , for six days this time. Labour arrived in office bearing a 22.3% pay rise to end the strike it inherited – and it thought it was all over. But within a year, doctors were out again. This time, negotiations over many weeks seemed to go well, but fell at the last fence: the doctors claimed there was a last-minute watering down and they returned to their fixed stand – restore their pay to its 2008 level, another 26%. “Impossible” is Wes Streeting’s line. He says resident doctors are “by a country mile the standout winners of the entire public sector workforce when it comes to pay rises”. Everything looks stuck, no pasaran on both sides. Why? Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
The four astronauts are set to touch down on Earth and conclude the 10-day mission after completing moon flyby The number of human beings who have travelled to the moon and returned safely to Earth will grow to 28 on Friday night when Nasa’s Orion capsule containing four Artemis II astronauts will glide gently to a Pacific Ocean splashdown beneath three giant parachutes. The scheduled 5.07pm PT la...
The four astronauts are set to touch down on Earth and conclude the 10-day mission after completing moon flyby The number of human beings who have travelled to the moon and returned safely to Earth will grow to 28 on Friday night when Nasa’s Orion capsule containing four Artemis II astronauts will glide gently to a Pacific Ocean splashdown beneath three giant parachutes. The scheduled 5.07pm PT landing (1.07am BST Saturday) off the coast of San Diego will mark the end of a 10-day lunar odyssey that made the three Americans and one Canadian the first people to travel beyond lower Earth orbit since the final mission of the Apollo program in December 1972. Continue reading...
Gay, fearless and utterly unique, Thornton had a hit with Hound Dog before Elvis – but was then fleeced and forgotten. One hundred years after her birth, a new documentary sets the record straight Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton exuded uncompromising intensity. Her voice conveyed struggle and defiance, fury and hurt, like few others. Standing at 6ft 2in, with an imposing physique and a razor-scarre...
Gay, fearless and utterly unique, Thornton had a hit with Hound Dog before Elvis – but was then fleeced and forgotten. One hundred years after her birth, a new documentary sets the record straight Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton exuded uncompromising intensity. Her voice conveyed struggle and defiance, fury and hurt, like few others. Standing at 6ft 2in, with an imposing physique and a razor-scarred face, she was a Black, gay multi-instrumentalist who refused to let a racist society or a rapacious industry confine her. Thornton should be ranked alongside the likes of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, but instead she is little more than a footnote in the histories of Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin as the original voice behind songs they would make famous. A new documentary, Big Mama Thornton: I Can’t Be Anyone But Me, aims to right this wrong. Continue reading...