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MassMutual Blog: A Financial Wellness Library

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We’re committed to help you secure your future and protect the ones you love. That means helping you build the pillars of financial wellness, including retirement, investing, and family protection. This is your starting point.

 

Featured Articles

What's more meaningful than another toy? An investment or money lesson to help secure their future.
Lower interest rates make it cheaper to take out loans, but also reduce earnings for savers.
Some strategies that can potentially help lower your tax bill must be implemented by Dec. 31.

Retiring & Investing

Protect your portfolio against a market downturn with diversification, asset allocation, or an annuity.
The size of the monthly benefit check depends on a combination of wage history, marital status, longevity guesswork, and retirement decision-making.
There is a basic miscalculation with not starting early when it comes to planning for your financial future.

Insurance

There are at least five needs you should address when sizing up a policy death benefit.
Crowdfunding is one way to raise money in an emergency, but it's no substitute for the protection provided by life insurance.
Most people feel confident with the group disability plan provided by their employer — until a claim becomes necessary. Then, the limitations can become strikingly clear.

Planning

How to help your college freshman avoid unwise spending and other money mistakes.
When you’re in your twenties and early thirties, you have a huge advantage in growing wealth. Time is on your side.
For some, converting a pretax IRA when their portfolio values are down could reduce their tax bill.

Work & Business

Retiring business owners should create a succession plan to protect their family and successor.
There are documents that should be properly prepared and questions that should be addressed ahead of time when it comes to a business’s future.
Owner dependency, where nothing can happen without you, is one of the bigger risks that exist in small businesses.

About MassMutual

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