Financial Planning

Putting away cash for my kid

Just had a child and people have given us gift of cash for us to spend on her. Well, seeing as we have all we need for...

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posted by starritt

10 comments posted 16yrs posted by starritt

Maximum IRA contributions for 2009?

I am 64. I earn $25k a year. I also have pension and social security income. What is the maximum contribution I can mak...

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posted by googlemail2003

3 comments posted 16yrs posted by googlemail2003

New business auto purchase

Someone with a business (Schedule C) has asked about the 50% bonus depreciation set to expire at the end of this year....

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posted by skip5700removethis

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Long Term Care Ins- Good or Bad?

I know this is a tax problem, but it also falls under Financial Planning. My company offered for a short time to pay th...

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posted by chip.a.wood

19 comments posted 16yrs posted by chip.a.wood

strong 52-week returns for closed end funds

On Oct. 13, 2008 I posted a message here "closed-end fund are selling at big discounts". Looking at the closed-end fund...

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posted by beliavsky

2 comments posted 16yrs posted by beliavsky

Can a public company publish price targets?

I thought that only financial analysts can give a price target? If a company is doing this, is that legal?

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posted by Antirama

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Anyone with a TIAA-CREF 403K to IRA rollover?

Did anyone here with a TIAA-CREF 403K account did an IRA or ROTH IRA rollover to get cash? Or withdraw all with a 20% ta...

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posted by yard22192

1 comments posted 16yrs posted by yard22192

What happens when a stock is delisted

When I say Large Cap I mean that in Canadian terms. Ticker symbol for those who care is CGS.TO or CGS-T (Canwest Global...

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posted by dontask

4 comments posted 16yrs posted by dontask

Living trust as IRA secondary beneficiary

My wife and I have a joint living trust. May I name this joint trust as secondary beneficiary of my IRA?

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posted by REMOVEkenTHIS

8 comments posted 16yrs posted by REMOVEkenTHIS

another SCAM - "Business Filings Division"

Division of WHAT? Division of some SCAM artist. I suppose all California LLCs will be receiving these. return address:...

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posted by pleasenospam

0 comments posted 16yrs posted by pleasenospam

have to "launder" gains?

Jeesh, there is a strange side effect to my strategy of progressively disinvesting during the crash, then progressively...

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posted by dumbstruc

3 comments posted 16yrs posted by dumbstruc

Is it time to re-enter the stock market?

I am hearing this question these days from those who got out of the market during the decline/crash/whatever and who ar...

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posted by skip5700removethis

26 comments posted 16yrs posted by skip5700removethis

Requesting some advice

Some background: Married, 61 yo, partially retired living on savings and want to stay conservative in my retirement inv...

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posted by stephen.moore

2 comments posted 16yrs posted by stephen.moore

Combining spousal accounts

The issues typically raised regarding combining accounts have to do with children, heirs, divorce, wills, etc. - that i...

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posted by nBeOwXs

8 comments posted 16yrs posted by nBeOwXs

question about savings bonds

I have over 100K in US Savings Bonds. They are in my name and my husband. My husband recently died. I don't want to cas...

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posted by googlemail2003

5 comments posted 16yrs posted by googlemail2003