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"8,000 days: What to expect in retirement", hosted by Dan Huth and featuring guest speaker Dr. Joe Coughlin, the Founder and Director of the MIT AgeLab, sponsored by Hartford Funds

Tune into this week's Modern Retirement Podcast, where John Amore, Head of Wealth Management Advice, and Andrea Rothberg, a Wealth Planning Specialist, discuss social security, and the importance of considering it as a part of your retirement planning strategy.

The latest UBS House View has been released – today we'll examine the current state of the markets, risks to the markets for the remainder of the year, CIO's thoughts on asset allocation, and more.

It's Monday morning and we have for you a special edition of the week in review and preview. My guest will recap last week's key market moving events and speak to what we can expect in the week ahead.

Today we turn our focus back to fixed income, specifically preferred securities. My guest will discuss recent performance of the asset class, opportunities and more.

This week's Modern Retirement Podcast Series is hosted by John Amore, Head of Wealth Management Advice and features David Ginsberg, a specialist on our Wealth Planning team. This podcast focuses on maximizing and optimizing retirement savings, exploring various strategies and best practices to ensure that you're saving enough to retire comfortably.

The Q2 reporting season is now in progress – today my guest will discuss his expectations for corporate earnings and speak to anticipated performance on a sector by sector basis. We will also cover equity valuations, an outlook and how equity investors should be positioned at this time.

It's Friday morning and that means it's time for the week in review and preview. My guest will recap this week's key market moving events, including Fed Chair Janet Yellen's testimony to the Senate Banking Committee and some recent economic data – plus, what we can expect in the week ahead and in the second quarter corporate earnings reporting season.

Today we turn our focus to the industrials sector as my guest will provide his current thoughts on the space, expectations for the upcoming corporate reporting season, an outlook for the second half of the year, investment opportunities and more.

In this week's Modern Retirement Podcast, we discuss the importance of planning for long term care, how to start the conversation with your family, and solutions available to a UBS client to mitigate the long term care risk to a financial and retirement plan. Insurance products are issued by unaffiliated third-party insurance companies and made available through insurance agency subsidiaries of UBS Financial Services Inc. Insurance and annuity products are issued by unaffiliated third-party insurance companies and made available throuvgh insurance agency subsidiaries of UBS Financial Services Inc. Guarantees are based on the claims-paying ability of the issuing insurance company. Long-term care insurance has certain exclusions, limitations, reduction of benefits, and terms under which a particular policy may be continued or discontinued. For costs and complete details of coverage, please contact your financial advisor. UBS Financial Services Inc. and its affiliates do not provide legal or tax advice. Clients should consult with their legal and tax advisors regarding their personal circumstances. In providing wealth management services to clients, we offer both investment advisory and brokerage services which are separate and distinct and differ in material ways. For information, including the different laws and contracts that govern, visit ubs.com/workingwithus. ©UBS 2017. All rights reserved. UBS Financial Services Inc. is a subsidiary of UBS AG. Member FINRA/SIPC.

Following the great recession, commercial real estate values have staged a dramatic recovery. Today we examine where we currently stand in the real estate cycle and whether or not there is further room to run. We will also cover how one should approach real estate investing and where opportunities in the space currently exist.

We are officially into the second-half of 2017; today we examine what has been driving market performance, both at home and abroad, as well as what we can expect in the second half of the year, in terms of both market performance and headwinds.

It's Friday morning and that means it's time for the week in review and preview. My guest will recap this week's key market moving events, including thoughts on the recent Fed minutes and today's June employment report – plus, preview what we can expect in the week ahead.

UBS House View Monthly Client Call with Jeremy Zirin, Head of Investment Strategy Americas, UBS Wealth Management Chief Investment Office.

Today we turn our focus to the emerging markets, as we examine recent developments in June and look back on the performance of the space for the first half of 2017. We will also cover what to expect in the months ahead and how investors should position themselves in the EM space at this time.