{"id":8243,"date":"2015-06-18T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sourcelive.wordpress.com\/?p=8243"},"modified":"2015-06-18T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T19:36:32","slug":"congratulations-to-the-whats-your-financial-iq-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=8243","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Financial IQ?\u201d Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSU HR would like to thank everyone who participated in the \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Financial IQ?\u201d challenge! To celebrate Financial Literacy Month, we teamed up with retirement vendor <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.tiaa-cref.org\/tcm\/msu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TIAA-CREF<\/a> to quiz faculty and staff on their financial knowledge. Beginning on April 1, for 22 days five questions were added each day. The more participants played, the more they were entered to win a tablet computer.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,100 participants, who ranged in age from 18 to over 65, received an average performance of 66 percent on the quiz this year. Participants self-identified their financial subject matter knowledge, ranging from \u201cclueless\u201d to \u201cready to retire.\u201d MSU employees scored highest on questions related to taxes and lowest on questions related to retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our winners!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8248\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_2120-e1434651780574.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8248 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_2120-e1434651780574.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"IMG_2120\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Martin, Administrative Professional in Faculty and Organizational Development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8250\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mike-rich2-e1434653610570.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8250 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mike-rich2-e1434653610570.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"Mike Rich2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Rich, Senior Specialist in Composite Materials and Structures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8251\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_2126-e1434653729452.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8251 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_2126-e1434653729452.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"IMG_2126\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Ginter, Physicist at National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanks again to TIAA-CREF for sponsoring the challenge. We hope staff and faculty learned the extent of their financial knowledge, and can study in preparation for next year\u2019s challenge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSU HR would like to thank everyone who participated in the \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Financial IQ?\u201d challenge! To celebrate Financial Literacy Month, we teamed up with retirement vendor TIAA-CREF to quiz faculty and staff on their&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=8243\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span> Congratulations to the \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Financial IQ?\u201d Winners!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[2,6,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb1fcA-28X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}