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If retirement is on your radar, you might be wondering if you should retire next year. Your decision when to retire can be life changing and will influence your quality of life for the rest of your life. As such, let’s look at the factors that might influence exactly when you retire. Is 2025 A Good Year To Retire? There’s nothing generally inherent in the year 2025 that says it’s a good or bad time to retire. It really depends on whether you’re ready financially and emotionally. The lists below outline the pros and cons of retirement readiness. You’ll be…

Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC) Q3 2025 Earnings Conference Call November 25, 2024 5:00 PM ET Company Participants Mark Lin – Executive Vice President & Chief Financial OfficerHong Hou – President & Chief Executive Officer Conference Call Participants Quinn Bolton – Needham & CompanyHarsh Kumar – Piper SandlerCody Acree – The Benchmark CompanyTore Svanberg – StifelTristan Gerra – BairdScott Searle – Roth Capital PartnersCraig Ellis – B. Riley SecuritiesChristopher Rolland – Susquehanna International Group Operator Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Semtech Corporation’s Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldDonald Trump has said he will levy tariffs of 25 per cent on all imports from Canada and Mexico, and an extra 10 per cent tariff on Chinese goods, accusing the countries of permitting illegal immigration and drug trafficking.In a post on his social media site Truth Social, Trump said he would impose the Canada and Mexico tariffs “on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous open borders”, which would remain in place “until such time as…

The approaching holidays provide a great opportunity to gain valuable insights that will help you better plan your retirement. Instead of enduring awkward silences or rehashing politics, ask your retired friends and relatives thoughtful questions about their life in retirement. It’s win-win—you’ll avoid tense topics, and your relatives and friends will appreciate the chance to share their hard-earned wisdom. Many retirees report that close relationships are very important for a satisfying and happy retirement. By engaging with your close relatives and friends, you’ll make them feel valuable and helpful. And some day, you’ll be able pass along your accumulated wisdom…

This article was written byFollowExperience is difficult to learn. After 30 plus years of critically analyzing the nuts and bolts of businesses as diverse as airlines, oil, retail, mining to fintech and ecommerce plus the macro, monetary and political drivers. I continue to immensely enjoy learning and applying my experience to unravel, comprehend and benefit from new ideas, technology, innovation and business models. In addition, living through multiple crises, tequila, Asia, dotcom, 9/11, the great recession and the Covid19 pandemia, plus a stint at entrepreneurialism (Export, Factoring and Printing) provides for an extraordinary base of experience to be applied across…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.China’s national technology champion Huawei is poised to launch its first flagship phone that can run its own apps on a fully homegrown operating system, in the latest sign of how technology is splintering into competing US and Chinese ecosystems. The Mate 70 smartphone set to be released on Tuesday will feature HarmonyOS Next, which Huawei hopes to establish as a third major mobile operating system alongside Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.It is the latest demonstration that US sanctions designed to enfeeble the…

I’ve been in the financial advisory business for roughly 28 years—and for 28 of those years, I’ve had a challenging relationship with the notion of “business development”—or the shadier moniker by which it is also known, “sales.” This has been such a tenuous relationship because many of us in the industry—and all of the advisors at my firm—consider themselves high-level professionals, not salespeople. Yes, without business development, there is no business, but many, if not most, professional advisors would much prefer to do great work, have that work recognized, and have prospects lining up to request being clients. Even most…

This article was written byFollowThe author has an honours degree in economics and politics with a focus on economic development. With 36 years of experience in executive management he has extensive knowledge of insurance/reinsurance, Global and Asia Pacific markets, climate change and ESG. He invests in his personal capacity.Analyst’s Disclosure: I/we have a beneficial long position in the shares of PNGAY either through stock ownership, options, or other derivatives. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Countries at the United Nations climate summit in Baku struck a final deal on the broad rules to launch carbon trading markets, almost a decade after being first proposed.The agreement passed at the UN COP29 climate summit late on Saturday night will allow countries and companies to trade credits for cuts in carbon emissions to offset their carbon footprints.The carbon trading mechanism had first been formally sketched out in the 2015 Paris agreement on limiting climate change, as a way for polluters…

Congress and the IRS made inheriting an IRA a very complicated, confusing event. Inherited IRAs are accompanied by a host of little-known rules that are traps for the unwary, and that’s before considering the end of the Stretch IRA and the creation of the 10-year rule that were enacted in the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act in 2019 and the accompany regulations that were finalized in 2024. There’s a host of under-the-radar rules beneficiaries need to know to minimize taxes and penalties and maximize the benefits of inherited IRAs. Here’s a review of them. Don’t contribute to…