The efficient markets hypothesis implies that no active investor can consistently beat the market over long periods of time, except by chance. Yet active
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With rising retirement costs, longer life spans, and the need to rely almost exclusively on one’s own assets for income, there is little margin for error in
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With the long financial nightmare of the recession and financial crisis shrinking in the memories of those who endured it, Americans are, once again, setting
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As the stock market resurgence continues, investors are reawakening to the performance benchmarks of their mutual funds to see if their fund choices are drawing
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Young families with an eye to the future are faced with a daunting choice – to save earnestly for a secure retirement or to save for their children’s education
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One of the most important tenets of investing for retirement is to diversify broadly for the best possible long-term returns in your portfolio. However, for the
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With many people still stinging from a housing market that, in many parts of the country, is still struggling to recover, any suggestion of adding real estate
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When financial planners first began to calculate retirement income needs back in the 1970s and 1980s, many of them latched on to the "70 percent" rule, which
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While our extended longevity should be greeted with gratitude for the possibility of enjoying a longer life with our grandchildren, many retirees are
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Filed in the “it seemed like a good idea at the time” category is a case in which one of our clients used a relatively obscure and somewhat complex provision in
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Next to the IRS, the most formidable and intimidating institutions people will face are the insurance companies and the medical care complex. Both are at the
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Are Alternative Investments Right For Your Portfolio? In recent years it would be difficult to read any financial newspaper or website without seeing headlines
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