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The Unfortunate Reality of Common Cold Remedies

Lifestyle
Cold season is upon us and many of us run to the medicine cabinet for a zinc lozenge or a pack of Emergen-C. The sad truth behind these ...
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Financial Resolution for 2018: Buy More Time!

Lifestyle
When the New Year rolls around many of us focus on making financial resolutions. These goals often include things getting out of debt, saving more or negotiating a ...
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You’re in your middle years? Here’s why you probably need to buy life insurance

News Retirement
Once you’ve reached your middle years, it’s time to stop thinking your employer-sponsored life insurance is all you need. Those group plans are usually designed to cover burial ...
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When Paying Off Your Mortgage Early May Make Sense

Retirement
One of the questions I am asked most often by my clients is whether they should pay off their mortgage before they retire. As with most other questions ...
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How to Retire Happy – 5 Tips Backed by Science

Retirement
In order to retire happy you need to have two boxes checked: 1) financial security 2) good health. These two categories are mutually dependent on one another. Without ...
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8 reasons why retirement scares rich people

Retirement
We all know there’s a retirement crisis and that wealthy people have 200 times more in retirement savings than those who aren’t so well off. But fears about retirement? Yes, even the rich ...
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2017 Best Places to Retire

Retirement
There was a time when retirement meant simply kicking back, relaxing and doing a whole lot of nothing. For most of today’s retirees, that’s no longer an accurate ...
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The good news and bad news about America’s retirement accounts

Retirement
The Federal Reserve recently released the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), a triennial survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. households, which collects detailed data on their assets, ...
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Bad news: Your 401(k) won’t give you a decent retirement

Retirement
For nearly 40 years now, we’ve been hearing that 401(k) plans are the key to a comfortable retirement. By giving a tax break to workers contributing part of ...
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What I’ve learned after 14 years at ‘the most depressing job in America’

Retirement
  This is the last column I will write about retirement for MarketWatch. No, I’m not retiring. But I am moving on. I’ve had a good run here ...
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