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Retirement insecurity
While Congress tosses all kinds of scenarios around about the future of retirement benefits like Medicare or Social Security — while doing absolutely nothing about it — we shouldn't be terribly surprised that real people are feeling as...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Medicare, Politics, Retirement, Career and Workplace
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The retirement confidence game
Retire SmartThe Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) recently released their retirement confidence survey, and the news is sobering. 28 percent of Americans are "not at all" confident that they will have enough money to retire comfortably -- the highest level...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Politics, Retirement, University of California, Berkeley, Career and Workplace
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Retirement: The sky isn't falling
Kiplinger's Money PowerYears ago, I spent a long weekend in Florida at a hotel with a dandy beach bar that seemed to be patronized almost exclusively by retired guys from Michigan. Ever since, that scene has represented to me the good old days of retirement, when pensions...Tags: Career and Workplace, Interior Policy, Health Insurance Cost, Employment, Social Security
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Ex-US senator, Nobel winner talk pensions in Kan.
Kansas legislators are hearing a pitch for starting a 401(k)-style pension plan for new teachers and government workers from former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey and a Nobel Prize-winning economist. Bradley and the economist, Robert Merton, a...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Pension and Welfare, Politics, Interior Policy, Entertainment Events
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Investing: Best bond and target-date funds for your 401(k)
Kiplinger's Money PowerOnly six bond funds make a list of the 100 mutual funds with the most assets in 401(k) plans. Two are index funds: Fidelity Spartan U.S. Bond Index (symbol FBIDX) and Vanguard Total Bond Market Index (VBMFX). Two more are designed to protect investors...Tags: Personal Finance, T. Rowe Price, Finance, Bonds, Economy, Business and Finance
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Couple should shore up insurance
Q: My husband and I are both working part-time jobs with no benefits, and we have two young children. We have $600,000 in old 401(k) accounts, $130,000 in cash from a land sale and $5,600 in credit card debt. What should we be doing with our cash? —...
Tags: Financial Planning, Credit and Debt, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Nicholas Tremulis book 'For the Baby Doll' celebrates life and love
It may not rank with literature's greatest opening lines — “Call me Ishmael”; “It was a pleasure to burn”; or “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant...
Tags: Music, Ray Bradbury, New York City, Keith Richards, Culture
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Retirement: Saving for retirement in your sixties
Kiplinger's Money PowerKiplinger's looks at the strategy of a woman nearing retirement age. The subject: Laurie Orr, 61, works for a musical instrument company in New York City. She has been enrolled in the company 401(k) since she began her job two years ago. Orr recently...Tags: New York City, Personal Finance, Franklin Templeton Limited Duration Income Trust, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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The market strikes back
WASHINGTON -- We now know the promise and peril of paper wealth. In the last 15 years, the stock market's convulsions ought to have rattled even hardy investors. Twice -- after the popping of the "tech bubble" in 2000 and after the financial crisis in...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Personal Finance, Stock Market, New York University, Finance
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Spotlight: Due diligence for the team, clients
Editor's note: The Spotlight features recent accomplishments and professional moves in South Florida. Who: Jackie Reeves, 46, Boca Raton. Job: Managing director, Bell Rock Capital LLC, Delray Beach. Start date: April 2006. Before that, Reeves was...
Tags: Cedar Crest College, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Science and Technology, Allentown, Human Interest
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Pensions adjustment long overdue
Private corporations realized decades ago that fixed, "defined benefit" pensions created long-term financial liabilities that could threaten their competitiveness, and even their survival. So they switched to defined contribution, 401(k)-style plans...Tags: Florida Legislature, Personal Income, Career and Workplace, Interior Policy, National Government
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Investing: Best U.S. stock funds for your 401(k)
Kiplinger's Money PowerThe list of the 100 mutual funds with the most assets in 401(k) plans includes some top-performing U.S. stock funds. Among the best large-company funds is Fidelity Contrafund (symbol FCNTX), a member of the Kiplinger 25. Its seasoned skipper, Will Danoff,...Tags: T. Rowe Price, Personal Finance, Allianz AG Holding, Stock Market, Finance
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