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Sorting through the tangle of open enrollment
Tribune staff reporterMore and more, open enrollment in company-sponsored benefits can be a confusing time, with a plethora of choices and additional responsibility falling on employees. Workers are given a stack of handouts each fall and are asked to choose among medical...Tags: Employees, Health Insurance, Healthcare Provider, Medical Services, Social Issues
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Dow Chemical tries to cool its costs
Tribune Media Services columnistQ: Would you please comment on Dow Chemical Co.? We've been pleased with this holding but the stock has experienced some recent volatility. -- E.P., Mt. Dora, Fla. A: The world's second-largest chemical company, behind Germany's BASF AG, is cinching its...Tags: 3M Co., Water Supply, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Germany, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Slumping Yahoo is far from giving up
Tribune Media Services columnistQ: I am concerned about my shares of Yahoo Inc. and wonder if time has passed the company by. -- L.R., via the Internet A: Powerful Internet rival Google Inc. may have passed it by, but its own long-term viability depends mostly on whether it can improve...Tags: Golden West Financial Corporation, Wells Fargo & Co., Petroleum Industry, Hewlett-Packard Co., Advertising
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Wachovia thinks big, amid concerns of overindulging
Tribune Media Services columnistQ: Are my shares of Wachovia Corp. going to do well? Will they increase as it grows? -- R.D., via the Internet A: The nation's fourth-largest bank in terms of assets has a driving ambition to become bigger. What's uncertain is whether it might suffer...Tags: Golden West Financial Corporation, Wachovia Corp., CBS Corp., Pitney Bowes Incorporated, Carnival Corporation
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Adviser should provide detailed retirement plan
Your MoneyOnce you've completed the task of selecting an adviser to help manage your retirement nest egg, what should you expect for the money? For a comprehensive plan with an independent adviser, which generally costs between $1,000 and $1,500, clients should...Tags: Chicago, State Budgets, Finance, Politics, Chicago Tribune
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In some allocation formulas, your salary is your bond
Tribune staff reporterLook at your paycheck, and imagine what it will look like next year, the year after that and maybe in 10, 20 or 30 years into the future. Do you see bonds? Perhaps not, but in essence, that's what you are looking at, said Roger Ibbotson, a Yale...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Stock Market, Stock Broking, 401K, Mutual Funds
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Before becoming too brave, assess your risk tolerance
Sun ReporterInvestors are braver when the stock market goes up. It's human nature. Long periods of rising share prices can easily disguise our true stomach for risk. The best recent example is the late 1990s, when investors aggressively played the market, only to...Tags: Finance, Google Inc., Bill Gates, Petroleum Industry, Stock Activities
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Big-ticket items lead to sparkling results at Tiffany
Tribune Media Services columnistQ: What do you think of shares of Tiffany & Co.? The company seems to be doing the right things. -- R.V., via the Internet A: Its little blue box has contained good earnings results lately. Not many retailers can say domestic sales are being driven...Tags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Luxottica Group SpA, General Electric Company, Tiffany & Company, Periodicals
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Investors looking overseas in an effort to boost returns
International investing used to be a nice thing to do, a diversification move that indicated you were a little more sophisticated than the average investor. But it is becoming a mainstream strategy designed to snare better returns than the U.S. stock...Tags: Central Bank, Europe, Brazil, Petroleum Industry, Stock Broking
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Giant funds post big returns, but may contain some risks
Los Angeles Times columnistPopularity often is the kiss of death for an investment. Yet some of the nation's largest mutual funds have generated great returns for their investors in recent years even as a massive wave of fresh cash has poured in. These funds, managed by firms...Tags: Periodicals, Los Angeles Times, Morningstar Incorporated, Death, Companies and Corporations
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Gates Foundation to reassess investments
Times Staff WriterIn a significant change, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it would review its investments to determine whether its holdings were socially responsible. In addition to what it called a continuing review of "our approach to...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Economic Policy, Charity, Steve Gunderson, Elections
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Retirement spending proves to be hard part
Your MoneyA reader who lives near Hartford, Conn., recently lamented the lack of sophisticated spending models in retirement, while so many models are available for the accumulation years. "Saving for retirement is not easy, but it seems that it is not...Tags: Chicago, Medical Services, Death, State Budgets, Finance
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