Social Security was never intended to be an income source that could support you in retirement. Rather, its sole purpose was to provide a safety net for people
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While you may not think of it in this way, your investment in a mutual fund is actually a contract to hire a professional to manage your funds, just as if you
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With the long financial nightmare of the recession and financial crisis shrinking in the memories of those who endured it, Americans are, once again, setting
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As the stock market resurgence continues, investors are reawakening to the performance benchmarks of their mutual funds to see if their fund choices are drawing
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One of the most important tenets of investing for retirement is to diversify broadly for the best possible long-term returns in your portfolio. However, for the
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With many people still stinging from a housing market that, in many parts of the country, is still struggling to recover, any suggestion of adding real estate
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When financial planners first began to calculate retirement income needs back in the 1970s and 1980s, many of them latched on to the "70 percent" rule, which
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Filed in the “it seemed like a good idea at the time” category is a case in which one of our clients used a relatively obscure and somewhat complex provision in
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Next to the IRS, the most formidable and intimidating institutions people will face are the insurance companies and the medical care complex. Both are at the
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As investment options continue to expand and competition for investment dollars increase, the mutual fund industry is coming under increasing scrutiny for the
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