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.

 

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Severe weather damage? Sudden illness? Learn about the resources available to you when a huge expense hits.
Employer-provided programs may not cover what many people need.
Acceptance rates at top schools are in single digits. Can a professional admissions counselor help?

Insurance

Life and disability income insurance can protect an entrepreneur's family, fund a buy-sell agreement, and provide business capital.
This kind of life insurance policy can function as both a protection product and a versatile financial asset.
Mistakes are common when buying life insurance. Here's what to avoid.

Retiring & Investing

Your credit score still matters in retirement. It can affect borrowing, insurance rates, and even assisted living. Here's why you may need to keep it up.
The central question entering the fourth quarter is whether earnings, AI investment, and labor-market stability can continue to offset costs.
Four strategies to consider when you have to take an RMD from your retirement accounts during a stock market decline.

Planning

Hackers and fraudsters who target your personal data are not going away. Protect yourself, and your accounts.
A growing body of research suggests social networking has put “keeping up with the Joneses” on steroids.
Informal money pools provide a source of alternative financing for Hispanic and other immigrant communities.

Work & Business

Beyond bank loans, there can be various alternative funding options, including SBA microloans, state programs, grants, CDFIs, and crowdfunding.
Business owners: learn what employees want from benefits — health insurance, retirement plans, voluntary benefits, and growth opportunities.
Business overhead expense insurance helps cover your fixed costs — rent, payroll, utilities — if you're too sick or injured to work. Learn how it works.

About MassMutual

Barings, a MassMutual company and fixed-income subadvisor, is sponsoring the PGA’s 2026 Presidents Cup.
At 10 years old, the MassMutual Foundation is only getting started and will continue to do great things on behalf of the company and the communities for which we care so deeply.
Many tend to overlook the interdependence it takes to achieve individual savings goals.