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39 Vote for this story	Act your age when it comes to investing
	posted: Aug 30th		source: dallasnews.com
	Although each life is different, there are certain stages that everyone goes through – and each new phase brings with it financial responsibilities, needs and goals. The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, which grants the respected CFP certification, has laid out five key phases in a...
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42 Vote for this story	Paying the piper with your nest egg
	posted: Aug 30th		source: startribune.com
	The days of using your house as a piggy bank are over and it's harder to get a consumer loan these days. So where are Americans turning to finance college, buy cars and get credit card companies off of their backs? Their 401(k) plans. As of June 30, 21.9 percent of workers with 401(k) plans had...
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39 Vote for this story	Former Fed official: Workers need bigger nest eggs
	posted: Aug 30th		source: post-gazette.com
	Four years removed from the high-wire act of promoting stable, noninflationary economic growth, Roger W. Ferguson Jr. has taken on another seemingly insurmountable objective: trying to get anxious workers who saw a good chunk of their nest eggs evaporate in the financial meltdown to boost their...
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113 Vote for this story	Top 5 IRA Mistakes Cost US Workers Thousands of Dollars
	posted: Aug 19th		source: 24-7pressrelease.com
	On her blog about IRA advice, Holden reports that in 2010, the average value of Individual Retirement Accounts in the United States fell to less than $28,000, the lowest number in a decade. This means Americans, many unemployed, must work even harder to pay for their retirement. Holden claims that...
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91 Vote for this story	5 Ways To Trick Yourself Into Saving Money
	posted: Aug 19th		source: sfgate.com
	With wages down and cost of goods up, it's not easy to save. After years of savings rates close to zero however, America is getting smart about their money again: even though the economy is still in a rough spot, we're saving an average of 6.4%. Not bad, but if you're like most people, you would...
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80 Vote for this story	Senator introduces automatic-IRA bill
	posted: Aug 16th		source: stltoday.com
	Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., introduced something called the Automatic IRA Act of 2010 last week. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., added a similar House bill this week. If passed, the legislation would require every employer with more than 10 employees to offer payroll-deduction access to an Individual...
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68 Vote for this story	Rules vary for hardship withdrawals from IRAs and 401(k)s
	posted: Aug 16th		source: startribune.com
	You can't put back the money you took out of a 401(k). And that's assuming you made a hardship withdrawal or similar distribution from the plan. The hardship clauses are highly restrictive.
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120 Vote for this story	Back to Basics on Social Security
	posted: Aug 6th		source: huffingtonpost.com
	Americans like what's new -- whether it is ideas or cars or derivatives. Digging out from the financial crisis is no different -- not in 70 years have we been so desperate to find a new way to create lasting economic security. But there is an old tool we are not using as effectively as we could, and...
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93 Vote for this story	How to Catch Up on Retirement Savings
	posted: Aug 6th		source: favstocks.com
	We’ve been talking a lot lately about how most Americans are woefully unprepared for retirement. MSN Money reinforces these thoughts with the following facts:
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103 Vote for this story	Vanguard Says Retirement Accounts Are Back on Track
	posted: Jul 30th		source: financial-planning.com
	Thanks to the fact that many are embracing target-date funds, Americans are on the right track with their retirement savings, according to a study by Vanguard. According to the study, 16% of savers are enrolled in a single target-date fund. In the last 20 months, the target-date fund business has...
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103 Vote for this story	Saving for Retirement: Five Things Younger Adults Need to Know
	posted: Jul 26th		source: creditloan.com
	Saving for retirement is something that most Americans don’t get serious about until they are in their 40s, except for those with 401(k) plans in which the employer provides matching funds, and then they typically only contribute enough to get the match (which is usually no more than 4% of their...
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85 Vote for this story	Retirement woes
	posted: Jul 26th		source: nypost.com
	Even the seemingly well off may find they are struggling to make ends meet in the so-called golden years. They could begin their retirement with what appears to be a healthy nest egg, only to run out of money years later, and needing to return to work. That's one conclusion of a recent report by a...
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69 Vote for this story	When to apply for debt consolidation loans
	posted: Jul 26th		source: helium.com
	The consolidation of credit is a practice for individuals to renegotiate their loans to lower monthly payments. It can also entail secured loans covered by collateral or conversely involve unsecured loans merging with other unsecured loans. As can be expected, collateral assists in reducing the...
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111 Vote for this story	How recent grads can learn the investment ropes
	posted: Jul 16th		source: money.cnn.com
	Question: I'm a recent college graduate who has a decent job that pays the bills. I also have around $10,000 in a savings account and contribute $100 a month to my 401(k). How should I begin to invest my money? Should I go to a broker? Manage it on my own? Help!
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115 Vote for this story	Retirement planning: Time to rethink your estimated return
	posted: Jul 16th		source: usatoday.com
	Q: In most of the calculations that I have seen for retirement savings, everything is based on an 8% return. Is that still a reasonable assumption?
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113 Vote for this story	The scary state of retirement savings
	posted: Jul 16th		source: washingtonpost.com
	The nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute regularly delivers the dreadful news of how unprepared so many Americans are for retirement. The findings give you a chill, much like seeing an image of the iconic black-robed, scythe-carrying personification of death.
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100 Vote for this story	Ask the Advisor: Retirement Savings on a Budget
	posted: Jul 9th		source: savings.com
	The conventional wisdom says, “It takes money to make money.” This is not necessarily true! Saving money doesn’t always mean you already have money and it doesn’t always mean you are being frugal. When saving money for retirement, for example, there are ways to cut costs and get the most bang for...
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180 Vote for this story	Savings milestones for retirement
	posted: Jun 25th		source: bankrate.com
	At 62, you can begin receiving Social Security benefits, but you might want to put off the party for a few years. You'll get much smaller monthly checks if you start drawing on your Social Security the day you qualify. If you wait for a few years -- or until you're 70, the current "late...
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144 Vote for this story	Fidelity Uses iPhone for Retirement Updates
	posted: Jun 25th		source: thestreet.com
	Coinciding with the release of the Apple(AAPL) iPhone 4, Fidelity Investments has launched an application to help customers track their retirement plans. Fidelity, the largest U.S. provider of workplace retirement plans with more than 14 million 401(k) and 403(b) participants, says the new app...
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176 Vote for this story	Stretch Your Retirement Savings by Moving
	posted: Jun 18th		source: cnbc.com
	What's one of the biggest steps you can take to increase your nest egg? Move! It may feel like a monumental step and may involve a bit of heavy lifting—unless you pay someone else to do it—but moving to a less expensive part of the country can significantly stretch your retirement savings.
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