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...
Article describes a few little known disadvantages of rolling over your 401K into a Traditional IRA when you leave your job rather than just keeping your 401K in your employer plan or rolling it...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Good reminder that you can open a Roth IRA for a child, but contributions are limited to earned income. Article also has some suggestions on brokerages that accept IRA accounts for kids.
If the...
My single step personal finance challenge is going to be to open up a Roth IRA account this year. I have been reading about it a lot in a number of blogs and media lately and it sounds like a no...
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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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,...
The article is a tad old and targeted to boomers, but it's still relevant to anyone investing for retirement. Here's a summary of the 5 trends:
1. Investment returns will cool off - many predict...
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