Understanding Retirement Plans
Learn all about 401(k) plans, traditional IRAs, and Roth IRAs.
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Retirement Calculator: 6 Important Tips from a Financial Advisor to Get The Most Out of Your 401(k)
401(k) plans are tremendous savings vehicles, but unfortunately, they are not often used to their maximum abilities.
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How to Make Your 401k Work Harder for You Now—So You Get a More Comfortable Retirement Later!
My dad didn’t worry too much about retirement. He was a truck driver, and the Teamsters offered a pension plan. He figured that with Social Security in his future, he didn’t need to spend too much time fretting about money for his golden how...
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Another Dire Stock Market Prediction: Whoopee!
McKinsey & Company is a big consulting firm—9,000 consultants and 2,000 researchers around the world—that companies hire when they need advice. I get research reports from McKinsey every once in a while, and they’re usually beautifully designed, well written and interesting in an kind...
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One Simple Thing You Can Do to Worry Less About Retirement
According to Gallup, having enough money for retirement is the most common financial concern in the U.S. In the 2014 survey, Gallup found that 59% of Americans are worried about not having enough money for retirement. That’s actually down from a few years when...
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One Great Solar Stock
Today's recommendation, First Solar (FSLR) is shaping up to lead the industry in the current wave.
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Your Child Can Retire with Millions!
For today's Dividend Edition of Investment of the Week, I wanted to introduce investing with dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. We have two Dick Davis Digest contributors who focus exclusively on investing with DRIPs, and others who recommend them occasionally. So DRIPs appear the...
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Skyrocketing Fuel Prices Alter Holiday Plans
Soaring gasoline prices are keeping drivers off the highways and boaters off the lakes. Lake weekend, while home in Hampshire for the Fourth of July, I noticed a sharp decrease in both road and lake traffic. With gasoline going for $4 a gallon land...
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