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Many working
American are frustrated by the details of their retirement plans,
which vary widely from company to company, often bristling at the
federal laws that govern them. |
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Editor's note: Some funds mentioned in this article may now be closed to new investors.
Spending long, tedious hours over yearly income tax forms is nobody's idea of a picnic, but many people worry needlessly about issues that are relatively easy to keep under control.
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Many investors
crave simplicity, preferring a single fund, a single stock, a single
strategy that will provide financial bliss, safety and reliably. |
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Fed up with
stocks, some investors have gone for the gold. Gold has few rivals
lately when it comes to attracting investors who chase hot
performance. |
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Maybe it's
just all those envelopes in the mail with "important tax
document enclosed" printed on the front, but income taxes seem
to be very much on people's minds these days. |
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Editor's note: Some of the funds mentioned in this article are now closed to new investors.
In all the years I've been counseling investors, I've met only a handful of couples who truly worked together to maximize their retirement plans.
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At my
investing workshops I always run through a list of things that keeps
investors from receiving the returns they deserve for the risks they
are taking. It's a laundry list of common (and costly) mistakes
investors make. |
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Although
inflation hasn't been a major problem in this country for a long
time, it's still lurking just beneath the economic surface, ready to
gobble up some of the assets that so many people have carefully
socked away for retirement and other purposes.
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If there's one
thing the past three years have taught most investors, it's a new
respect for risk.
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The Enron
collapse provided a powerful lesson on the tragedies created by too
much company stock in an employee retirement program -- and yet,
many investors are still reluctant to diversify away from the stocks
of their employers. |
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