January 22, 2024 Edition

Professional services

🔒Ask ACE: Should I raise my rates?

Everything costs more these days. So however uncomfortable it may be to raise your consulting fees for longstanding clients, it may be time to take the leap.

Banking & Finance

🔒Newsworthy people and performances for Jan. 22, 2024

A roundup of new hires, promotions and achievements from businesses, professional services firms, health care providers and nonprofits around Maine.

Small Business

🔒On the Record: Former MedRhythms employee helps launch extended-reality gaming app

Cape Elizabeth native Lauren Steidl is the co-founder and co-CEO of Integrated Reality Labs, a Pennsylvania-based startup that aims to shake up the mobile gaming world

Aging population

🔒Retirement planning in your 50s: ‘It’s never too late’

Experts say it's never too late to start planning, even as retirement nears.

Aging population

🔒Strategies to help you take the first step to retirement planning — in your 20s

Mainebiz spoke with experts in the finance industry on how to start saving in your 20s. Here are their tips to feeling less overwhelmed as you start to plan for the future.

Aging population

🔒Filling a gap: Maine launches retirement savings plan for private-sector workers without one

The state is rolling out the Maine Retirement Investment Trust, or MERIT, to provide a low-cost, portable retirement savings program to workers without access to a savings program.

Aging population

🔒Back on the clock: Why some Mainers are choosing to ‘unretire’ and keep working well into their 80s

Some older Mainers are choosing to return to the workforce after retirement, aiming to stay active, earn an income and stay socially engaged.

Aging population

🔒The pace of older workers ‘unretiring’ slowed after the pandemic

While a good deal of Mainers are "unretiring," or rejoining the workforce after at least one retirement, the pace has slowed since the pandemic.

Fisheries & Marine

🔒From the Editor: Rain, snow, flooding all signs of epic winter

This winter is already making itself known, and we still have at least two months to go.

January 22, 2024 EditionEdition

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