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Risks of stable-value investment funds
Submitted by ktexas  (online.wsj.com)

Stable-value investment funds have been one of the last havens in employee-retirement accounts. But one, advised by money manager Invesco Inc. for now-collapsed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., has...

Article | Submitted Jan 9, 2009 | Views: 14 | Comments: 0 
Tags: retirement, investing, personal finance, ira, retirement savings, mutual funds

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Bad News For Seniors: No IRA Help For 2008
Submitted by ktexas  (www.forbes.com)

The Treasury has decided against granting any relief to retirees who were hoping to take smaller 2008 distributions from their depleted individual retirement accounts. There has been talk of...

Article | Submitted Dec 19, 2008 | Views: 80 | Comments: 0 
Tags: retirement, investing, personal finance, ira, treasury, irs

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Road Risks Rise as More Drivers Drop Auto Insurance
Submitted by ktexas  (online.wsj.com)

More drivers are letting their car insurance lapse because of the sour economy, putting themselves and others at risk. Adding to the problem is the fact that auto-insurance rates are rising...

Article | Submitted Dec 18, 2008 | Views: 46 | Comments: 0 
Tags: insurance, personal finance, finance, personal, auto insurance, liability

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Growth of Money-Management Websites
Submitted by ktexas  (online.wsj.com)

More people are skipping traditional financial-management software, such as Microsoft Money and Quicken, and instead conducting their financial life over the Internet. Financial-service sites...

Article | Submitted Dec 18, 2008 | Views: 67 | Comments: 2 
Tags: management, investing, personal finance, saving, budgeting

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Open Letter to SEC: Leave Peer-to-Peer Lending Alone
Submitted by ktexas  (www.netbanker.com)

Currently, we have just a single company, Lending Club, in operation, but they were crippled much of the year by a dark period as they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars meeting SEC...

Article | Submitted Dec 18, 2008 | Views: 43 | Comments: 0 
Tags: lending, credit, investing, personal finance, loans, peer to peer lending

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What the Federal Reserve's latest cut means to HELOCs
Submitted by ktexas  (clarkhoward.com)

So if you have a HELOC (home equity line of credit) at prime, it now lowers to 3.25% -- a truly exceptional rate. The big gotcha, however, is that many people are in HELOCs that have a floor, which...

Article | Submitted Dec 17, 2008 | Views: 98 | Comments: 0 
Tags: rates, credit, federal reserve, savings, personal finance, loans, heloc

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Worry-Free Investing: Calculate Your Risk-Free Savings Rate For Retirement
Submitted by ktexas  (www.mymoneyblog.com)

How much would you have to save if you decided to take zero market risk and invest solely in TIPS? Post has a good discussion of this along with an online spreadsheet.

Article | Submitted Dec 17, 2008 | Views: 72 | Comments: 0 
Tags: retirement, inflation, savings, investing, personal finance, tips

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Is your annuity safe?
Submitted by ktexas  (money.cnn.com)

Consumer advocates have long denounced annuities for their high commissions, complex terms and high early surrender charges. Recently many have also warned about their safety as many insurance...

Article | Submitted Dec 16, 2008 | Views: 66 | Comments: 0 
Tags: retirement, insurance, annuities, savings, investing, personal finance

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The No-Stock Portfolio - Decent Returns with Less Risk
Submitted by ktexas  (www.kiplinger.com)

This Kiplinger article has non-stock investments which are claimed to provide respectable yields with less risk than stocks. Some that were mentioned include blue-chip IOUs, REIT preferreds and...

Article | Submitted Dec 16, 2008 | Views: 71 | Comments: 0 
Tags: bonds, income, investing, personal finance, mutual funds, reits, dividends

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New options for students in need of financing
Submitted by ktexas  (clarkhoward.com)

For months, Clark has been telling you about the student loan market collapse and the troubles it has caused for students and parents alike. The tightening of lending has made it particularly hard...

Article | Submitted Dec 15, 2008 | Views: 35 | Comments: 0 
Tags: lending, debt, personal finance, loans, student loans

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Lending Club P2P: Review of New Post-SEC Changes
Submitted by ktexas  (www.mymoneyblog.com)

Here's a good review of the new LendingClub which has finished their SEC filing and is one of the only P2P lenders currently operating (everyone else is either shut down or is in an SEC quiet...

Article | Submitted Dec 14, 2008 | Views: 79 | Comments: 2 
Tags: p lending, lending club, investing, personal finance, loans

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End-of-year mutual fund distributions add tax pain to losses
Submitted by ktexas  (blogs.consumerreports.org)

Adding insult to injury, some of the mutual funds in which you’ve seen 40 percent declines this year will be sending you a taxable distribution before the year is out. Some examples of large...

Article | Submitted Dec 13, 2008 | Views: 137 | Comments: 0 
Tags: taxes, stock market, stocks, investing, personal finance, bear market, mutual funds, stock funds

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Unpleasant Surprises from Mutual Bond Funds
Submitted by ktexas  (www.nytimes.com)

Many middle-of-the-road bond mutual funds that seemed to promise stable returns in a difficult market have recently taken gut-wrenching plunges. These funds, as well as managed accounts run under...

Article | Submitted Dec 13, 2008 | Views: 111 | Comments: 0 
Tags: bonds, investing, personal finance, mutual funds, bond funds



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