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Will the DB(k) replace the 401k plan?

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A History of the 401(k) Retirement Plan

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If you had to invest in the stock market right now, which companies would you invest in?

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There’s a school of thought in the investment world that says the best way to invest is to put money in the companies that you believe in. Hmm ...

4 Ways to Weather an Economic Downturn

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To take care of yourself, make sure you are taking these three steps.

How to choose the right financial advisor

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Don't wait until you have "enough" money before hiring a financial advisor, because the time will never come! Plus, an advisor's job is to help you increase what you already have -- to create an upward spiral of wealth. Certified Financial Educator Clint Gharib describes how to hire a potential planner, and shares two things you never knew about investment specialists.

“It is important to talk to several advisors before selecting one in order to find one with whom you are comfortable,” says Gharib. “Interview financial planners like you would anyone you would hire, whether employee or a contractor.”

The Five-Minute Investing Workout: Boost Your Portfolio with Better Indexing

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When I talk to beginning investors, I always emphasize the ease and relative safety of using index funds in order to diversify your investments. With index funds, you're instantly minimizing your risk and minimizing your expenses. And although your fund will follow…

The five-minute investor: A quick investing workout to firm up your portfolio

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After the downturn, most portfolios are sagging badly. So I've been working up some really quick and easy workouts to help busy and beginning investors boost the fitness of their portfolios. This workout is about one of the most important and basic tools in the investing toolbox: allocation. It’s time for a quick check-up of how your investment assets are allocated.

The flu effect

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The sudden appearance of a new strain of influenza has become a dramatic lesson in stock market dynamics. If we apply chaos theory to the market, a cough in Mexico can cause an economic storm in Asia.

Markets in Asia and Europe dropped sharply on speculation that the outbreak…

The Dangers of Whale Watching in Rough Economic Seas

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I’m the only person I know who has been seriously injured while whale-watching. I wasn’t injured by a whale, actually, but as a result of gawkers crowding onto one side of the boat I was aboard and hogging the rail in order to view a beckoning cetacean. I was unable to find a handhold, and so…