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Social Security? The Numbers Say To Get In Early As Possible

Tech and Finance

Take Social Security as soon as you can — at 62 advises Steve Maersch, contradicting just about everyone in the retirement advice business. Maersch’s accountant yelled at him to start taking Social Security when he turned 62, and he did. From 62 through 69, Maersch collected $111,543 in Social Security.

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Fintech Fundings: 102 Companies Raise $2.0 Billion in July

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. HQ: Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tags: Institutions, developers, storage, IT, security, compliance, HSBC (investor). Source: Finovate. Quantopian. Platform for building and testing trading algorithms. Latest round: $2 million. Total raised: $23.7 Source: FT Partners , Finovate. Source: Crunchbase.

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