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Community Banks and Our Retirement Problem

Jeff For Banks

Why don''t we play a critical role in solving the nation''s retirement problem? I recently read a report by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions titled The Retirement Crisis and a Plan to Solve It , led by Senator Tom Harkin (D: Iowa). The employee can save all of the needed savings tax deferred.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

(Nasdaq: OSBC) Old Second is a single-bank holding company headquartered in Aurora, Illinois. The Bank, Old Second National Bank, lost a whopping $156 million in 2009 and 2010. Independent Bank Corporation (Nasdaq: IBCP) Independent Bank dates back to 1864 as the First National Bank of Iona.