An investment vehicle popular in the Victorian Age but plagued by scandals early in the last century may be coming back. The vehicle is the tontine, a type ...
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With President-elect Donald Trump getting ready to take office and the stock market reaching all-time highs, how are retirees and financial advisors feeling about 2017? The American College ...
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The U.K.’s Guardian tells us, “Yet another study – this one from no less an authority than the non-partisan US Government Accountability Office (GAO) – is here to ...
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We all know that participating in a company-sponsored 401(k) can be instrumental in saving for retirement. Not only that, but we’re encouraged to max out our contributions year ...
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If you’re a woman looking forward to a comfortable retirement, well, good luck to you. Women deal with three issues that don’t affect the majority of their male ...
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One key to Republican Donald Trump’s appeal to voters is a negative view of immigration, not merely his incendiary remarks about Mexico sending criminals north, but that immigrants “compete ...
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Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Feel like quitting your job? There hasn’t been a better time to find another one in more than 15 years, according to ...
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American women will have a harder time of it in retirement than men, according to Sallie Krawcheck, a former Wall Street executive who founded Ellevest, an online investing ...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. home prices rose modestly in June, pushed up by strong sales and a limited supply of available properties. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city ...
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U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in July but a rise in industrial output and home building suggested a pickup in economic activity that could allow the Federal Reserve ...
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