401K

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What’s in your 401(k)?

If you work for a company that offers a 401(k) program, you very likely have had to decide on how your contributions are to be invested. In addition to deciding how to diversify your contributions, you have had to decide how much of your pre-tax dollars to contribute to the program. Hopefully, you have spent [...]

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The benefit of remaining calm

Earlier this week I mentioned the stock market being up 2000 points and how we were committed to our current investment plan. Yesterday, we received our May statement for our Roth IRA and received a very nice surprise. I have posted before how we have consistently contributed to our Roth IRAs and my 401k even [...]

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Where is your money going?

The stock market was down a little today but over the last few months the trend has been upward. As a matter of fact, from its low on March 9, the market is up over 2000 points (not bad for three months). I don’t want to get into the reasons why in this post, but [...]

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Time for your Retirement Account annual checkup

Your doctor wants to see you at least once a year just to make sure everything is in order and nothing has gotten out of balance. He (or she) will want to run some tests, analyze the results and then determine if there are any changes you need to make to your routine. If everything [...]

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Retirement Investment Decisions

With the downturn in the economy, a lot of companies, and not just small companies, are having to rethink the benefits they offer their employees. One of the benefits on the chopping block is 401(k) employer matching. Walter Updegrave, Money Magazine senior editor says: As a way to reduce expenses in the face of this [...]

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I want my 401(k) back!

I think everyone will agree that 2008 was not a good year for the stock market, retirement accounts (including 401k’s and IRA’s) or just about anything else where savings or investing was concerned. The Dow Jones lost more than 33% over the last 12 months and that number has been the focus of a lot [...]

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