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The question I get asked the most these days is about the 401(k) match, or lack of it. And the answer is, yes, keep investing.

A special six part look at Personalizing Personal Finance that includes not only a look at investing but insurance, taxes, estate planning and more.

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The New Retirement Plan: Run Towards the Danger. Find out why risk is still the best ally an investor planning on retirement can have.

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Eighteen Months of
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"This is an all-inclusive retirement disaster." But believe it or not, there is hope for your retirement.

So, how exactly does greed and your retirement plan work?

Are you asking: What now retirement plan?

Do women need a different retirement plan?

When it comes to retirement planning, are annuities a New Idea?

Retirement Planning: Big Business Style

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Working After Retirement?

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New Social Security Calculator:
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Small Fixes for a Big Problem
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Your Retirement; Your Business Plan:
New: 401(k) Transparency for the Small Business

Part One: The Individual 401(k)
Part Two: The SEP-IRA
Part Three: The SIMPLEs and the UNI-DB

Five Questions for the Finance Guy
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Paul Petillo answers some important questions about how to get where you are going.

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Are you one of numerous taxpayers who might pay the alternative minimum tax? Included on this page are downloadable forms for special tax situations. Updated for 2008

Retirement Planning: Actuarially Speaking It is all in the numbers.