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...
Did you know that IRAs can hold CDs (Certificates of Deposit)? If you are nearing retirement and are tired of fretting over your nest egg, your best and safest return may be with a federally...
Fidelity Income Replacement Funds are designed to provide regular monthly payments that seek to keep pace with inflation. The portfolios invest in 15 other Fidelity funds.
Vanguard Managed...
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.
Baby boomers were supposed to be retiring in droves by now. But that's not happening. The last year has frightened many individuals of retirement age into staying with their jobs. Falling home...
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...
Good review of the new tax rules on retirement savings and how they impact you. One of the biggest changes, which went unnoticed is that employers can now automatically enroll everyone in a 401K...
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College discusses a new theoretical deferred annuity that would start payment at an advanced age - 70 or 75. Premiums could be low and would provide owners...
The Supreme Court is hearing the case of James LaRue who says he lost $100,000 when his company didn't follow his requests to sell stock and move it into cash. The ramifications could be big as...
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The warnings have rumbled for decades: Just wait till the baby boomers retire. If you think there are strains on Social Security and Medicare now, brace yourselves for the implosion as the boomers...
How much money do you need to invest, in order to generate the amount of dividend income that will set you free from the 9 to 5 job? Well, a good starting point would be first to track analyze your...
In my free time I regularly read Yahoo finance or the CNN Money articles related to personal finance and retirement. People are told that they need to save as much as possible for retirement,...
I am going to take a contrarian view of retirement savings and say that in current market conditions you should think about reducing your 401K contributions to only invest the amount that is needed...
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