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In the world of personal finance, asking what's the worst that could happen is not the same as asking: "will I be able to afford this?" or "have I saved enough for retirement?"
Personal Finance: Your Money Under Stress
on the radio with Paul Petillo
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on retirement
Retirement Risk and Taxes
Over the last couple of years, there had been a focus on the nearest-retirees - those literally on the cusp of leaving the workplace. How would those poor souls do it? Decimated portfolios littered the financial landscape and the hopes and dreams of those closest to retirement were endlessly profiled as being the norm. Should your retirement plan be more than guesswork and assumptions?
on insurance
On buying insurance: We've just completed a three part series on buying insurance.
Buying the Right Policy
How to buy insurance
Do you need a disability policy?
on investing
Indexing versus the actively managed mutual fund - again.
Zack's Investment Tools: Stock Screener | Mutual Fund Screener
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"Mutual Funds for the Utterly Confused" (McGraw-HIll, December 2008)
Mutual Funds for the Utterly Confused
Retirement Planning for the Utterly Confused
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans says "The book explores the importance of time and retirement philosophy in making a retirement plan."
Read the review
Investing for the Utterly Confused
Building Wealth in a Paycheck-to-Paycheck World
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There has been so much said about credit lately, I was wondering if there was more to learn about credit than simply suggesting we don't know what the heck we are doing. There is a widely publicized number about credit, and I suppose this might be the best place to start. How many of you have heard a number for the average the debt for credit cards as being around $8,000?
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on college
Part One: Should you pay for College?
Part Two: Funding Your Retirement Should Take Priority: Here's Why
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on mortgages and homes
Your Home:
Mortgage/Buyer's Guide:
Real Estate/Mortgage Channel
About your 401(k) plan Your retirement planning tool is showing signs of increased balances even as some of the experiments to get people to invest more - via auto-enrollment - is as Aon Hewitt suggests, somewhat sub-optimal.
Balances are up; Participation not so much
Mark Twain once said: "I deal with temptation by yielding to it." In a special five part series, we examine the overwhelming temptations facing investors in 2011. We discuss investing, investing in index funds, ETFs, bonds and more.
Is simply suggesting that your retirement plan is okay enough? Hardly.
More on the value neutral retirement plan here.
Is there no safe in safety? Someone asked me that question recently. What I think they meant was: is there no return in safety? Truth is there never has been much. These days, it is even less. The What-if Retirement
There has been so much said about credit lately, I was wondering if there was more to learn about credit than simply suggesting we don't know what the heck we are doing. There is a widely publicized number about credit, and I suppose this might be the best place to start. How many of you have heard a number for the average the debt for credit cards as being around $8,000?
Like puzzles? There is good news out there. But according to a survey done by Mercer, a company who promotes itself as a global leader for trusted HR and related financial advice, products and services, we have yet to internalize this information. We are still cautious, anxious and worried, more than we should be about the continued level of unemployment.
The Retirement Conundrum
Got Retirement Doubts?
Did you know that the IRS keeps Statistics on your income? Here's how to avoid an IRS audit
Recent graduate? Retiring early?
Health Insurance Challenges
Commentary: Universal Health Care can work. But it might need a Medical Army
Retirement Planning: Actuarially Speaking It is all in the numbers.
We all know what optimal portfolio performance is. Right? No?
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