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What Retirement Advisers are Talking About

August 27, 2010

As it is in all free market situations. there is a buyer and a seller.  The seller wants their product to stand out amongst the others as exactly what the buyer is looking for.  It is no different in any business be it locomotive, widget or retirement plan.  The customer has to precieve value, compare [...]

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Retirement Planning: Where You Are, Where You’d Like to Be

August 10, 2010

Ask any psychiatrist what worrying is and you might get this sort of response: it is “ the ubiquitous human practice of imposing suffering upon oneself. Worry is a good example of self-inflicted suffering.”  A layman might characterize the worrying as simply being not-so-positive, having crossed some imaginary line between what is feeling good and [...]

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Your Retirement and Higher Education: Make the Choice

August 9, 2010

About a month ago, Jessie Rosen, author of 20 Nothings and contributor to a blog of the same name asked the question of her readers: “what if no one’s parents paid for anything after college?”  She writes: “I mean no one’s and anything. As in there would be no trust funds or graduation gifts of a new car [...]

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Gut Check: Revisiting Your Emotions and Your Retirement Plan

July 5, 2010

A short time ago, as part of my regular contribution to MomsMakingaMillion radio, I introduced the notion that relying on your gut feeling, specifically when women rely on their intuition, they tend to come up short in terms of business and investment decisions when compare to their male cohorts. In the beginning, I thought the [...]

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Blind Obedience: Following Another’s Investment Lead

June 30, 2010

There are a couple of things we know about the stock market, which is still the primary generator of wealth and retirement income.  The question is whether you follow what you know or follow what might happen. First among these facts is that although the price you see quoted at any given moment is based [...]

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Retirement Planning: Essentials, Potentials and Possibilities

June 18, 2010

A former editor of mine at McGraw-Hill once told me that people love lists.  Give them ten steps, five ways to succeed, six of this, seven of that, and you will have piqued their interest.  He was right but only to the point where you have to factor in how people use those lists, those bullet points [...]

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When Non-Investors ask about Gold

June 12, 2010

As a rule, I tend to keep it general when writing about investing. Even drilling down into people’s attitudes towards retirement is extremely difficult given the myriad of choices, plans and options each person faces. But when non-investors like my wife for instance ask about our, or better yet my position on gold, perhaps it [...]

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Financial Planning for Divorce

June 8, 2010

As we all found out about a week ago, the Gores have split up. The news offered a lot of exploration into why a couple would divorce after 40 years of marriage. Now the Gores seem as if they are splitting amicably and Tipper probably won’t be worried about her financial future. But that won’t [...]

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The Evolution of Retirement: The Seeds of the Future

June 7, 2010

I was discussing the concept of retirement with several people half my age recently. Not only was the concept of little value to them in their current frame of mind, they saw it as a Wall Street notion to sell them something they may or may not need. This made me wonder if the brain [...]

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Retirement: What Can We Learn From Ken Griffey Junior?

June 6, 2010

Even if you live outside of the baseball world, even if you live far from the Pacific Northwest, even if you don’t follow sports, the name Ken Griffey Jr. is recognizable. His announced retirement from the Seattle Mariners this week was really not so much of a surprise. The Kid had a brilliant career, is [...]

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