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Don't get 'framed' when claiming Social Security

Generations of retirees may have claimed benefits too soon, according to Finance's Jeff Brown
May 22, 2013:  

Learning by Doing: Jeff Margolis, Technology, and Powerful Ideas

Healthcare technology visionary named CEO of WellTok, discusses Market Information Lab.
May 20, 2013:  

Public pension funds improving...or are they?

Professor Jeff Brown examines the issue on the Marketplace Morning Report
May 20, 2013:  

Tune into finance lecturer and CFA Kevin Waspi on WILL's Focus

Kevin Waspi reveals a few money-saving tricks for summer and answers your personal finance questions.
May 5, 2013:  

Chained CPI and the ups and downs of the cost of living

In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Professor Jeffrey Brown voices his, "concerns about the adequacy of Social Security benefits for seniors at the low end of the income distribution."
April 17, 2013:  

Six simple steps to pension reform

Professors Jeffrey Brown and Avijit Ghosh outline their pension reform plan in this editorial in Crain's Chicago Business.
April 9, 2013:  

Global Business Brigade's Spring Break in Panama

For the past couple of years, sophomore, Matthew Aulert has found a unique way to spend his spring break, and it wasn’t on the shores of Panama City Beach. Aulert put his finance skills to good use abroad as he traveled with fellow classmates to empower and educate rural communities in the Republic of Panama about financial planning.
March 18, 2013:  

Six Simple Steps to Reforming the State Universities Retirement System (SURS)

A group of scholars, which includes three faculty members from the College of Business, has developed a six-step proposal to stabilize pensions for employees of the state’s public colleges and universities.
March 13, 2013:  

Nobel Prize-winning economist Peter Diamond delivers David Kinley Lecture

"Delivering the David Kinley Lecture on the University of Illinois campus Thursday, Diamond said he's particularly worried about the effects of long-term unemployment on young people."
March 7, 2013:  

Investing in Financial Literacy

Teaching students to use “fake money” that imitate real life scenarios of the stock market is what inspired Finance professor, Elisabeth Olthehen to spearhead a program that has captured the attention of students and teachers worldwide.
March 3, 2013: