As a single woman, you may be faced with some unique challenges when planning for retirement. Here's what you should consider.
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Social Security was never intended to be an income source that could support you in retirement. Rather, its sole purpose was to provide a safety net for people
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While you may not think of it in this way, your investment in a mutual fund is actually a contract to hire a professional to manage your funds, just as if you
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If you’re five to 10 years away from retirement, it’s time to start getting specific about your plans after exiting your career.
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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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