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Your Money Minute #40: Investing for Retirement: The 3 Things You Really Need to Know (part 2 of 3)
Listen now: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download the episode or subscribe using iTunes. Host: Nancy Anderson, CFP®, AFC Guest: Kathy Kristof, syndicated personal finance columnist, speaker and author of three books, including the recently updated Investing 101 (Bloomberg, 2008). In this month’s show: Kathy explains that fees also come with a double whammy, [...]
Your Money Minute #39: Investing for Retirement: The 3 Things You Really Need to Know (part 1 of 3)
Listen now: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download the episode or subscribe using iTunes. Host: Nancy Anderson, CFP®, AFC Guest: Kathy Kristof, syndicated personal finance columnist, speaker and author of three books, including the recently updated Investing 101 (Bloomberg, 2008). In this month’s show: Nancy and Kathy discuss the 3 most important things the [...]
Retirement Preparedness: What Employees Need to Know About Investing
There is information that is nice to know and information that you need to know but what you really need to know is — the difference. For example, my husband is a history buff with an avid interest in politics. When we have friends over and we are discussing politics or world affairs, he often [...]
Investing: The Benefits of Starting Young
Over the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to meet with a number of people who are recent college graduates just starting their careers. Boy, has the world changed a little bit since I graduated! The first thing I noticed is that starting salaries today are what managers’ salaries were when I was [...]
Is the “permanent portfolio” hyper-diversification worth considering?
After the last couple of years, many investors are wondering if there’s an investment strategy that could have avoided all that volatility while still earning the returns they’ll need to retire on time. This Marketplace article discusses the “permanent portfolio” strategy developed by the late investment adviser Harry Browne. The portfolio arguably has the best [...]
