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Spiders: A New Spin on Index Funds
Index Investing, Part 6
Spiders are one of the hottest products on Wall Street. What are they--and should you be investing? Find out from Insider Darwin Abrahamson! Go >
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All Index Funds Are Not Created Equal:
Index Investing, Part 5
All index funds are not created equal. ThirdAge Money Insider Darwin Abrahamson helps you do your homework before you invest--and choose the index that will do the most for your money! Go >
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Do the Math: Index Investing, Part 4
Discover the hidden costs of index funds! Before you take your chances and sink your money into one, do the math! In part 4 of his series on index funds, Darwin Abrahamson tells you how. Go >
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Running Up the Risks:
Index Investing, Part 3
Do you want your index fund to be passive or active? Decide before you risk increased management costs! Insider Darwin Abrahamson tells you how--and why--in Part 3 of our Index Funds series. Go >
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Bogle's Folly: Index Investing, Part 1
Find out why Bogle's Folly is actually Bogle's Triumph! Learn the basics of smart ThirdAge investing in index funds. Go >
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Keep Your Home for a Lifetime and Live Well
You may be one of the thousands of retirees, living on a fixed income, who discover you are house rich and cash poor. You've been hearing from your friends that you can tap into the equity in your home without losing your home. But is the "reverse mortgage" fact or fiction? Go >
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The Old College Try
If you wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat wondering how you're going to pay for your children's college tuition, you're not alone. Go >
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Estate Planning Involves More Than Just Writing Your Will
Most people believe that estate planning is the process of providing for your loved ones when the inevitable occurs. However, Robert A. Esperti and Renno L. Peterson, both estate attorneys, believe that living trusts, not wills, are the way to go, so that should we become incapacitated we can avoid a "living probate." Go >
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Exercise Your Rights to Control Your Assets
The bulk of most Americans' assets is a home, life insurance, retirement benefits, and various types of savings accounts and investments. And in the majority of cases, someone other than yourself will make the decision about where the property is going to pass at your death. Go >
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Getting Real About Risk
Accurately assessing your "risk tolerance", your ability to swallow your fear, is vital to successful investing. Learn how to evaluate yourself and make the marketplace less taxing on your heart. Go >
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Making a Plan to Find a Financial Planner
The day may come when you decide that your cumulative net worth warrants the advice of a professional, commonly referred to as a "financial planner." Your decision brings you face to face with the most difficult task in the whole financial planning process: how to find this wise, objective person to guide you. Go >
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Stop Making Excuses: Start Saving Now
Don't be left with the scraps of your working years when retirement rolls around. Start saving early and consistently and find out about employer sponsored retirement planning programs you may be eligable for. Go >
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How to Start Getting Started
The worst investment mistake is not making bad investments. It's not investing at all. That kind of inertia is responsible for the failure to begin planning, saving, and investing. Go >
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Social Security--Give the System Back to the Workers
From the beginning, the myth that Social Security contains a trust fund being filled with money from years of Federal Income Contribution Act (FICA) payments has given workers a false sense of security. According to Stanford University Professor of Economics Douglas B. Bernheim, "...today's workers are saving just one-third of what they'll need in retirement." Go >
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Covering Your Worst Losses
Insurance, anyone? You may call it gambling. But insurance agents have refined the term. To them, it's "risk management." Go >
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