Financial Planning

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Social security based on my wife's income.

I briefly glanced at a Yahoo Finance article a couple of months' back about maximizing social security income. It says...
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posted by po.ning
15 comments posted 15yrs posted by po.ning

More about the personal finance course

Whether or not comparison of the costs of home ownership and renting are relevant to a course in personal finance is pe...
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posted by dwzimm
31 comments posted 15yrs posted by dwzimm

whole life policy - reviewing the numbers

I've had a small Northwestern Mutual whole life for a few years, while our kid was younger... and I didn't have an inve...
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posted by pschuman_no_spam_me
13 comments posted 15yrs posted by pschuman_no_spam_me

Personal finance course

I am interviewing for a teaching position at a local vocational school for a course on personal finance. The school tea...
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posted by noreplysoccer
33 comments posted 15yrs posted by noreplysoccer

Loads on 401K Funds

We are looking at doing a 401K with ADP using their R share program. ADP is claiming that the funds in this group have...
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posted by persistentone
10 comments posted 15yrs posted by persistentone

Debt/Equity #s

Value stock guru Benjamin Graham counseled, among other things, that the company of a good stock would possess a debt-t...
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posted by honda.lioness
14 comments posted 15yrs posted by honda.lioness

updated Visible Policy site

Several years ago, folks on this forum provided extensive advice to me as I was first authoring the Visible Policy site...
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posted by rich
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by rich

Planning by comparison

This useful site has been brought up before on this forum: http://www.bls.gov/cex/#tables Some may care to look at the...
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posted by GeorgeCFL
2 comments posted 15yrs posted by GeorgeCFL

cap appreciation vs fixed income

With the current financial environment, there appears to be several articles reflecting the flight from equity to fixed...
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posted by pschuman_no_spam_me
11 comments posted 15yrs posted by pschuman_no_spam_me

Pension advice wanted

I'm a US citizen with retirement coming in the next few months and I need some advice on whether to take my pension as...
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posted by ablm555
8 comments posted 15yrs posted by ablm555

Article on medical pricing

This is one of the first pieces I've seen that documents prices for medical services. I hope it may be helpful to some...
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posted by GeorgeCFL
6 comments posted 15yrs posted by GeorgeCFL

fixed pension - should I wait?

I can start taking a pension after my 55th birthday, which is coming up in the next 6 months. This is a old-fashioned c...
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posted by sparky
9 comments posted 15yrs posted by sparky

High interest rate savings account

Someone from my bank called recently offereing to up the interest rate on my savings account from just over 1% to 4%. I...
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posted by oparr
11 comments posted 15yrs posted by oparr