New and Noteworthy

• Financial Services and Boomers' Retirement
  As Boomers retire and seek to simplify their lives, they will look to a few good institutions to meet their financial needs. In doing so, they will likely prompt a shakeup in the financial-services industry, now awash in too many institutions, and spur industry-wide consolidation. A recent report by the Consumer Financial Decisions group, part of a series for the Retirement Income Industry Association, lays out the new rules of the marketplace that financial institutions and advisers will need to follow if they are to be on the short list of firms that retirees choose to meet their emerging needs. Read more about this report, The Coming Consolidation: Making the Short List
• Americans' Eating Habits
  Most Americans eat large quantities of industrialized foods full of empty calories: Only 8% of U.S. adults regularly buy food with labels "natural" or "organic." The price of eating processed foods is a rise in medical conditions such as obesity and a corresponding rise in the costs of health care and health insurance. In light of these concerns, a new VALS™ report explores the VALS groups' attitudes toward food and health as well as their grocery-buying behaviors. Read more in the new VALS report We Are What We Eat.
• SRIC-BI's CEO Interviewed for USA Today Article
  USA Today recently interviewed Bill Guns, president and CEO of SRIC-BI, for an article about climate change. Guns based his comments on research from SRIC-BI's VALS™ program. In this research, VALS explains and predicts what will motivate people to make personal and lifestyle changes that will positively affect the environment.
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