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Divorce and your credit rating
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January 11, 2006
Just because your former husband or wife is supposed to pay joint debts doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. But when payments aren’t made, your credit rating will suffer— no matter what the divorce decree may say.
Start the new year right!
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January 12, 2007

It's a new year, and you're probably thinking about what's next for you in various parts of your life. FundAdvice Columnist Tom Cock wants to direct your thinking to finances.

     

New year, new portfolios
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January 04, 2007

Observant FundAdvice.com readers may notice that we have added three new suggested portfolios for investors at online brokerages. In this article, Paul Merriman introduces them and tells how we pick the funds to recommend.

Articles of interest
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January 16, 2006
On this page we present links to some online articles created elsewhere that may be interesting to FundAdvice.com readers.
Star-struck investors could strike out
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January 11, 2006
Have you ever gone to a box office hit with consistent "thumbs up" reviews only to walk out wondering what all the hype was about? Investors who flock to four- and five-star-rated mutual funds may also be disappointed by the big picture.
Inflation, the Fed and you
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January 11, 2006
The primary job of the Federal Reserve Chairman is to fight inflation, and Ben Bernanke, who took over from Alan Greenspan in early 2006, is proposing a new weapon: pre-determined rate targets. The success or failure of this policy shift could affect your finances.
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November 21, 2008
 
 
In our recommendations to investors, we are increasingly emphasizing exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over conventional mutual funds because of their lower costs and greater tax efficiency.  Accordingly, we have made an important change in our suggestions effective July 11, 2008.
 
Below you will find our Merriman Model Portfolios, consisting of ETFs that are widely available through discount brokerage firms.
 

Last update: December 12, 2008

 

Inside Paul Merriman's book
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July 16, 2005
Live It Up Without Outliving Your MoneyLet Paul be your guide to what's inside one of the best-selling retirement books since it was published in April 2005.

Rising interest rates: What should bond investors do?
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April 04, 2004
After years of falling to lows not seen in a generation, interest rates have started up. Nobody knows how high they’ll go, or how fast. But the change has worried many people who own bond funds.

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