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To understand how, take yourself back to 1999. Let's say you were 37 then and had saved $100,000 for retirement, with a goal of $1 million--which would provide you with an annual retirement income of, conservatively, $70,000. You could have figured on retiring in 2011 at...
Jan Thompson, 62, certainly miscalculated. A bookkeeper for an electrical contractor, she retired in May 2000 mainly on the security of $300,000 in a company profit-sharing plan. But the bear market has claimed half of her retirement pie, and Thompson, a divorce, recently gave up hope of finding...
She has done just that with some of her savings, shifting more heavily into bonds as well as value funds and funds that invest in small and middle-size companies--which have held up best. But even conservative stock portfolios loaded with dividend-paying companies and real estate holdings have...
Does another Bush not get it? Sure, the son has got to focus on a war to preserve the nation's security, as his father did. But like Dad, he misjudges the nation's economy at his peril. Bush has shown a willingness to inject politics into some economic decisions...
The rage today is shifting money from stocks into home improvements and second homes. But it's unlikely that residential real estate, which has appreciated sharply of late, will beat stocks over the next decade. Don't overlook foreign stocks, which offer diversification and an added kick from the falling...