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target dated funds

Your 401k: Knowing Too Much?

January 5, 2010

In a weekly segment for MomsMakingaMillion with Gina Robison Bullips and Kat Bellucci, I am asked five questions.  This week’s topic, to air on 01.08.10 tackles the subject of knowing too much about your 401(k)’s potential in your retirement days. I will be asked: Can too much information about your 401k be a bad thing? [...]

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Investing in 2010: So You Say You Want a Resolution

January 2, 2010

Here are five quick tips for mutual fund investing in 2010. Most of us look at the turn of a calendar year with the hope that the mistakes we made in the previous year will not be made in the new one.  This is noble and in many cases futile.  These attempts are usually too [...]

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Once Upon a Time, Investors Panicked

December 16, 2009

Seems so long ago.  Markets were tumbling. People who owned stocks were selling and running for bonds. People who owned actively managed mutual funds were moving everything they had left to the uncharted and unproven territories that are target date funds or balanced offerings. No one seemed to know what to do or worse, how [...]

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Trashing Target Date Funds

October 27, 2009

I have been on the record, with some decidedly trash talk centered thoughts about target dated funds in the past. Why do I think these are quite possibly the worst investment idea ever? Let me explain what these funds are suggesting they can do and why, under the guise of protecting your assets as you [...]

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Safe Harbor Investing

October 5, 2009

There is no easy answer for how much risk is too much risk or too little. In the aftermath of this past year, plan sponsors are looking for a way to insure that those close to retirement have the money they invested over their careers there when they need it. The key word is insure. [...]

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