Maintaining Your Retirement Income
Saving enough by age 65 to help ensure that you
can maintain your standard of living through a long retirement
has become increasingly difficult. Consider just this one fact.
Current retirees receive close to 70% of their retirement income
from Social Security and defined-benefit pension plans, while
today's workers will probably only receive one-third of their
retirement income from those sources (Source: Ibbotson Associates,
2007).
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Ensuring You Have Enough Life Insurance
For some people, the prospect of buying
a life insurance policy that pays out upon their death is too
close a look at their own mortality. Yet, at the same time, none
of us want to leave our families financially insecure when we
die. That's why it's critical to have sufficient life insurance.
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Lessons Learned from the Stock Market
The stock market volatility of the past
few years has taught some valuable lessons about the stock market.
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Monitoring Your Stocks
There are five factors to look for as you
monitor your stocks' performance.
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The Benefits of Low-Correlated Assets
At first glance, asset correlation may seem
like a complex topic. However, it is important to understand the
concept and how it affects your portfolio. By combining assets
with low correlation, you can potentially improve portfolio returns
while reducing risk.
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