Retirement Investment Digest

January 31, 2007 — PowerShares Capital Management LLC continues Leading the Intelligent ETF Revolution announcing today that PowerShares exchange-traded funds are now available as part of Invest n Retire’s …
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It’s amazing how many people just ignore retirement planning and pretend like they have to worry about it.
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If you contribute to your employer’s 401 plan and leave your job, one of the biggest decisions you will make is what to do with the money in your plan.
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In December I posted Ask Quicken Expert Anything You Like — Free Money Finance Call for Questions for Quicken Product Manager and asked readers for their questions about Quicken.
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Target-maturity funds, a/k/a life cycle-funds, have made significant inroads into 401(k) plans, They’re now a common sight on the fund menus of many 401(k) platforms. The recent Department of Labor regulation on default funds in which target-maturity funds are one…

Indeed a small world. Seniorcsopie.com, an on-line French publication for seniors/baby boomers carried this article today, "The employee stock-ownership plan : a way to save for retirement", that originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 22, 2007. It’s…

Teacher and school service personnel unions will ask the state Legislature to let workers choose between two retirement systems, now that a merger of the plans has been deemed unconstitutional.
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Here’s a comment left on my post titled Why It’s Smarter to Buy than Rent : I, like Baselle, do not want to attempt the impossible by trying to buy a house in Silicon Valley on my 49K a year income.
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There’s an Ancient Greek saying, “Know thyself and thou shall unlock the mysteries of proper investment risk exposure.” Okay, not really, but knowing your risk tolerance and risk capicity are…

That’s not a typo, Roth 401ks were introduced to investors in 2006. A Roth 401k is similar to a Roth IRA?as you may have suspected. Find out how you might…