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Retirement: A Poem

September 5, 2010

TERMINUS Ralph Waldo Emerson It is time to be old, To take in sail:– The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal round, And said: ‘No more! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs: no more invent, Contract thy firmament To compass [...]

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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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Will Your Retirement Misfire?

August 22, 2010

We are all aware of the scary futures that may be awaiting us.  Is working longer such a bad thing?  Is where you work give you any hope that this life will be so much better than the job we left?

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No Match for Your 401(k)? Keep Investing

August 19, 2010

We’ve got a problem and we know it.  Speaking generally but based on the numerous reports about us since the financial fall of 2008, we have changed, in most cases dramatically.  We can’t really be faulted for it.  We’ve been trained since we were young and we are genetically hardwired to be able to recall [...]

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Personalizing Personal Finance: Servicing Debt

August 18, 2010

The final piece in this six part series concerns the negative effect of debt on any personal finance plan: the servicing of the debt you may already have.  While taxes and investments, protection, financial goals, and accumulation goals and the ability to eventually  have anything worth leaving to your heirs are all important consideration when trying to build [...]

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Personalizing Personal Finance: Taxes and Investments

August 13, 2010

In the previous articles in this six part series. we discussed protection and your financial position. Today, we look at tow facts of life that will not go away: taxes and the the investments needed to make your personal finance goals a success. This site is devoted to retirement, something we believe can be achieved [...]

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Personalizing Personal Finance: Protection

August 12, 2010

Personal finance, which is part of the whole life approach to eventually developing a viable plan for retirement involves protecting what you have from financial setbacks.  In part one of this exploration of personal finance, we discussed the financial position you may have developed, a nice way of suggesting that living within your means is [...]

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Personalizing Personal Finance: Financial Position

August 11, 2010

If anything social networking has offered us is the ability to take the personal out of everything.  When it came to money, investments and how you handled your daily finances, few people knew what you were thinking, what you were doing or even why. Now it seems, everything is intertwined.  One move can have long [...]

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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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Retirement: Barking Up the Wrong Tree

August 7, 2010

Several years back I was doing a local television show as a personal finance guy.  It was one of those morning shows that come on after the national variety stuff and although Portland isn’t a big player in the overall TV market, it did okay.  I did a wide range of topics, always sort of [...]

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