Financial Planning

Non-spouse 401(k) beneficiary

I continue to be intrigued at the timing of financial articles amongst different publications. SmartMoney on line today...

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posted by joetaxpayer

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Asset Allocation and MVO

I recently completed an experiment where I divided the market into eight asset classes including international and REIT...

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posted by physlab

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Asset allocation and risk tolerance

Can someone help me understand portfolio design? An advisor might recommend a portfolio that's 60% stocks and 40% bonds...

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posted by rick.bryan

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Serious investment

Anyone has any experience of Swisscash fund, I started small investment there yesterday ??? Martin Masviken http://www.m...

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posted by masviken

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How To Manage Low Income?

A teacher salary in developing country is hard to manage. The cost of leaving such as house rental,food,car has yearly...

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posted by hyms

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SEEKING ADVICE (PLEASE HELP)

SEEKING ADVICE (PLEASE HELP) I have a question regarding occasional non-pattern daytrading in a margin account with a $...

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posted by ymyaw55

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chinese buying us equities

just last wednesday, chinese traded 377 billion yans or larger value in equities trades than combined 12 other large as...

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posted by <a

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can someone help me locate tickers for 401k plan?

am trying to locate the tickers for these funds in my 401k plan SSgA S&P 500 Index Strategy is SVSPX (this I found) Riv...

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posted by a

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restricted vs. unrestricted in 401k

what does it mean when employer contributes an amount that is listed as 'restricted' and then another amount 'unrestrict...

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posted by aaron.k

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What to do with disposable income...

Let's say one has a lot of disposable income per month and the age is 35. The options are given below and the goal is t...

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posted by ram

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Retirement needs (again)

The Wall Street Journal will publish an article in their weekend edition which states pretty much the opposite of the B...

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posted by joetaxpayer

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Do "total returns" include fund operating expenses?

When a fund prospectus shows historical "total returns", I believe they include dividend and capital gain distributions...

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posted by nomail1983

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401k Skips Dividends and Capital Gains

This is sort of a tangent from the other thread about dividends and expense ratios. My wife's 401k (through New England...

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posted by woessner

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Why so many sub-prime loans went bad

I'll admit to posting the excerpt below partly to "vent". I am amazed by the foolishness of many lenders and disappoint...

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posted by beliavsky

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what is the difference in a fund?

two vanguard funds, VWIGX Vanguard Intl Gro;Inv *and* VWILX Vanguard Intl Gro;Adm from this mornings news "..in a radio...

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posted by hk

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by hk