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...people age, they should move their portfolios from riskier investments like stocks to more conservative options like bonds and cash. Yet often they don't. Enter life-cycle funds. Investors pick a fund based on the year they plan to retire and let a professional manager do the rest, gradually swapping investments as the years go by. Michael Porter, senior research analyst at investment tracker Lipper Inc., calls it "fast-food investing...
...proved to be a very successful strategy, blueliners will certainly be conscious of the greater distance they need to cover and the larger seams any misstep will leave open to an opponent’s attack. And that, in turn, will tweak the split-second calculation that precedes riskier defensive efforts...
Though the privatization of Social Security would be a major coup for Wall Street and the banking firms who would maintain the personal accounts, the American citizen is left with a riskier retirement outlook from a system that’s very name heralds its aversion to risk. Social Security is in need of a facelift, not a burial. Placing the system on stronger footing is necessary and can be accomplished by a gradual increase of the retirement age to 70 to reflect the reality of longer life expectancies. While private retirement accounts should have a place in any individual?...
...Pill. But after the deaths of three women who had taken the drug to terminate unwanted pregnancies, the FDA issued a black-box warning about the risk of death from bacterial infections and other complications. The pill's supporters insist that when properly used, RU 486 is no riskier than a surgical abortion and considerably safer than carrying a pregnancy to term...
...benefits that travel to these locations will bring. For many of these countries, a blanket restriction simply ignores the nuances of regional realities—deterring travel to many safe locations while sanctioning travel to plenty of more dangerous places. Regions of India, for example, can be far riskier for students than neighborhoods in Beirut or Sanaa. The border of Lebanon and Israel is not a safe place for Harvard students to travel to, but neither is the border of India and Pakistan. Yet students can still receive credit and/or funding for travel to India; while those seeking the College?...