Tag: investments
member name: Ms. Meacham: Money Maven
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April 09, 2008 06:40 PM EDT --
"Do you know a FICO from an IRA?" So asks the Fine Living television network's new Money IQ test .
I just took it: 10 questions, lots of hints, entertaining and educational videos, . . .
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October 03, 2007 09:05 PM EDT --
Think you could outsmart a high schooler when it comes to money questions? Now's your chance to find out.
The Center for Financial Studies at Southern New Hampshire University's has created . . .
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October 17, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
U.S. homeowners be warned: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the housing slump is "not ending as quickly" as presumed and looks like "it will continue to adversely impact our economy, . . .
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December 28, 2007 08:04 PM EST --
As Jan. 1 rapidly approaches, I sit down to carve out my goals for the coming year. My goals run the gamut from finally wrapping up all of the projects I've started to getting my house (financially . . .
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February 06, 2008 07:41 PM EST --
The Bush budget proposal is in , and with it comes renewed fears that the current administration's plans are spiraling the American economy into a recession. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average . . .
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December 14, 2005 04:25 PM EST --
There's a new investment philosophy in town. Described as "taking control of your retirement account" or "truly self-directing" your IRA, self-directed retirement accounts are everywhere . . .
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November 07, 2007 07:59 PM EST --
If you're trying to figure out what to make of falling stocks and rising oil prices, you're in good company.
The Federal Reserve Board is also caught between a rock and a hard place. Last week . . .
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January 18, 2008 01:24 PM EST --
President Bush has spoken, today calling for " an economic growth package as soon as possible ." (For more see Chris W.'s Gather article, " Jumpstarting the economy: . . .
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April 30, 2008 12:51 AM EDT --
It's really no surprise that home prices measured by Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 cities fell at a record clip in February . We pretty much knew that was . . .
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May 01, 2008 08:00 PM EDT --
RISMEDIA, May 2008 -- Despite the shakeup in many sectors of the mortgage industry, demand for real estate financing will remain strong through the third quarter of 2008, according to the Mortgage Bankers . . .
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September 21, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
I returned to work today after four days of intense training at the National Press Foundation on " Retirement Issues in the 21st Century ." What a whirlwind! As such, I've developed this photo essay . . .
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July 20, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
Americans' confidence on a strong economy fell more than 7 percent from January to June, according to the newest BIGResearch study. Ironically, the results come as the Dow reached new heights and mortgage . . .
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September 12, 2007 09:42 PM EDT --
If you're like most people nursing a retirement portfolio, you're on at least one invitation list for those educational investment seminars that come with free lunch, snacks or dinner. I’ve . . .
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March 04, 2008 03:57 PM EST --
"Over a 40 year work life, you could forfeit more than $660,000 in retirement savings if your plan charges excess fees totalling just 1 percent a year," reports financial columnist Terry Savage. . . .
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June 09, 2006 06:15 PM EDT --
A reader of "The Bottom Line" column in The Oregonian daily newspaper e-mailed me with a question about 403(b) plans:
I have been teaching at Tualatin High School for nine years and . . .
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July 27, 2006 11:27 PM EDT --
<SYNOPSIS> Is there a magic formula to investment portfolio diversification? We'll take a look at the types of returns local investment professionals and seasoned investors could have seen from . . .
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November 17, 2006 08:36 PM EST --
WHEN DENNIS VON PONTZ WAS 11 YEARS OLD, he learned how to plot stock market prices from his day-trading uncle. By the time he was 21, von Pontz owned a stock portfolio and was reading corporate annual . . .
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July 26, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
The Senate Special Committee on Aging is investigating insurance companies that train agents to pitch older consumers on annuities, and other financial products, using scare tactics aimed at getting . . .
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October 11, 2007 07:20 PM EDT --
Last week I posted a series of questions pulled from a new financial education program for high schoolers. (See "The Bottom Line: Are you smarter than a high schooler?") Here's your chance . . .
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March 21, 2007 10:55 PM EDT --
When I was fresh out of college I cashed out my Applebee's 401(k) contribution -- earned while waitressing and bartending to pay for college -- rather than rolling it over to an IRA and another employer's . . .
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