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Whether you’re young and just starting out, you’re approaching mid-life and accumulating savings or you’re nearing retirement age, you can put a huge number of extra dollars in your pocket and in the pockets of your heirs if you just do a few things right. In this article, Paul Merriman tells how.
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Here's a guide to the 10 articles on our site that readers like best.
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Investors in their 20s have a golden opportunity to start out right, if they learn and follow 10 easy lessons. In this article, Paul Merriman teaches those lessons and gives a self-grading test on each one. Can you score 100?
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For many American investors – perhaps the majority – the 401(k) plan (and its near-clones for non-profit organizations) has become the mainstay of retirement savings. It’s not hard to see why. These plans combine tax advantages with automatic savings and in many cases the incentive of matching funds from employers. Editor's note: This article, first published in 2002, was updated in October 2007.
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A popular topic at our investment workshops is a list of the biggest mistakes investors make. In this article Paul Merriman tells how to recognize them and how to avoid them.
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Sometimes the way to get ahead is to do what other people don't do. Though that is easier said than done, it's a key to successful investing, as Paul Merriman describes in this article.
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Of all the products offered to investors, few are more controversial than variable annuities. The conventional wisdom is that variable annuities are sold, not bought. In other words, if there were no annuity salespeople, investors wouldn’t buy them.
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For many years Paul Merriman has been telling investors to “just say no” to buying load funds. Predictably, this message is quite unpopular among people who earn commissions selling such funds. In this article, Paul responds to an unhappy financial planner.
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Investors by the millions were startled -- many were shocked -- by the market's sudden plunge in the spring of 2006. In this article, Paul Merriman uses data back to 1970 to show that losing money, at least temporarily, is a sure thing.
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One of the most important things we do for clients is make sure they have realistic expectations. In this article Paul Merriman draws on 36 years of data to explore the most fundamental equation of investing: the tradeoff of risk vs. reward.
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