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Maximizing your employee benefits will aid you in reaching retirement and health savings goals.
Both offer protection, but shorter premium whole life insurance policies offer quicker accumulation advantages.
Sudden market drops point up the value of long-term investing horizons and diversification.

Retiring & Investing

Learn how to protect your credit score in retirement with tips on autopay, credit freezes, disputing errors, and using alternative credit data.
55-and-older communities offer amenities and social life for active adults, but may have limits as you age. Learn what to research before you buy.
Securities backed lending lets you borrow against your non-retirement investments for life’s opportunities like major purchases, tax obligations, bridge financing, business funding, and more.

Insurance

The potential for dividends is part of the value that eligible participating whole life insurance offers.
Group life insurance through work is a valuable benefit, but it may not be enough. Learn how to check your coverage and when to supplement it.
An insurance lapse occurs when you miss premium payments and coverage ends. Learn what causes a lapse, grace periods, and how to reinstate a policy.

Planning

Just like diet and exercise for health, good money practices can help make your finances better.
When the shape of your family shifts and obligations end, it’s time to double down on savings, pay off debt, and focus on your financial legacy.
Custodial accounts, custodial 529s, and Coverdell ESAs each offer different tax, financial aid, and control trade-offs for families saving for a child.

Work & Business

FSAs and HSAs can help you save on medical care costs, but the rules that govern them differ greatly.
Voluntary benefits may support an employer’s efforts to attract and retain talent while helping employees address certain financial risks. Learn what to offer and why it matters.
ESOPs and Employee Ownership Trusts both keep your business independent and reward employees. Compare tax benefits, costs, and control to choose.

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.

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