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4 Ways to Take Retirement Planning Into Your Own Hands

Most people will receive Social Security payments in retirement. A fortunate few will also receive public or private traditional pension payments. But you can’t necessarily count on these ...
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How To Make It In The Gig Economy: 4 Tips For Freelancers

The informal motto of the on-demand economy has a nice ring to it: “Be your own boss.” But if you want to scrape together a living by driving ...
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The US economy is telling 2 stories, and the good story is way better than the bad story

The US economy is all about consumers. On Tuesday, consumer confidence beat expectations while advance data on US trade in August showed a 3.2% decline in the nominal ...
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What the breakup of the global economy means to investors and managers

The world’s biggest economies are no longer moving in lockstep—and that makes the world more risky. Just how aligned is the global economy? To what extent is it ...
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How Women Can Build Million-Dollar Businesses

The three keys to “going big.” When a business adviser suggested that Julia Pimsleur raise venture capital for her early-childhood language learning company, Little Pim, she spent nine ...
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The Simple Secret to Being a Successful Investor

3 easy steps “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” Steve Jobs, the late Apple cofounder, once said. That applies not just to designing Macs and iPhones that perform complex ...
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FIA sales highest of all annuity types

Fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) constitute the highest share of annuity revenue. This is according to a survey of 542 independent agents, career agents, independent broker-dealers, independent financial planners, ...
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“What’s Your Retirement Number?” Is Not the Right Question

What’s your retirement number? We’ve all heard the marketing. This question is based on asset accumulation. The problem with using this approach for retirement planning is we don’t ...
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The Art of Successful Aging

Science has been making great strides lately lengthening our life spans to the point special considerations need to be made regarding the quality of life as we age. ...
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Corrections are Worse for Retirees

Are you buckled in? The equity markets are said to be heading for a correction. A stock market correction is defined when major market indexes decline at least ...
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