Society - Top Stories latest news

The analysis of nearly 1 million retirement portfolios found that 69 percent have inappropriate risk or diversification of holdings and 36 percent have worrisome concentrations of company stock. In ad...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Is more than half of your 401(k) invested in your own company's stock? In an ideal world, retirement savers would scoff at that question. But the world of retirement sav...

Their hope is to transform the building back into the elegant 1920s hotel it once was. Under layers of dust and years of changes by other owners, much of the original hotel is still there, they say. ...

Aegon UK has linked up with the Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank to distribute its deferred self-invested personal pension (Sipp) product to private banking customers. The partnership between Aegon,...

St. Peters — The Silver and Gold Senior Club will host a free seminar on "Hospice and Palliative Care" from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday at Nurses and Co., 115 Piper Hill Drive. Nurses Jean Web...

Pregnant women with blood sugar levels in the higher range of normal -- but not high enough to be considered diabetes -- are more likely than women with lower blood sugar levels to give birth to babies at risk for many of the same problems seen in babies born to women with diabetes during pregnancy, according to a study funded in large part by the National Institutes of Health.

(University of Leicester) Can online networking sites help new students settle into university?

(Economic & Social Research Council) Images of maths 'geeks' stop people from studying mathematics or using it in later life, shows research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.Many students and undergraduates seem to think of mathematicians as old, white, middle-class men who are obsessed with their subject, lack social skills and have no personal life outside maths. The student's views of maths itself included narrow and inaccurate images that are often limited to numbers and basic arithmetic.

(RAND Corporation) A new RAND Corporation study finds that a growing body of economic research suggests that public investment in early childhood programs may be able to lower public costs for social services by improving children's long-term welfare. Such work is helping to promote a reorientation of child and human services toward investment and prevention, moving away from the current system that seeks to "treat" problems.

(Conservation International) Members of Belize's cruise tourism industry today signed a Declaration of Commitment, in which key industry stakeholders commit to create sustainable cruise tourism practices, such as protecting coral reefs. The commitment is the second such environmental agreement developed for Caribbean passenger cruise line destinations by Conservation International's Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative. It is also the first to address considerations by an established nature tourism destination.