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Archive for November, 2011

As I write this on November 26, the S&P 500 Index is down by about 4.6% for the week. The S&P 500 dropped 1.9% on November 21st and then dropped 2.2% on November 23rd. These are enormous daily drops.  Something has happened that has convinced the aggregate of market participants that the total value of [...]

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Guest Blog by Kip Robbins, CFA, Zacks.com. This past Sunday it was 71 degrees and dry in Chicago.  If you’ve ever lived here in November, you know that’s an anomaly.  At this time of year, it’s usually 44 and wet.  I felt so warm, I decided to have a glass of lemonade which is usually [...]

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This is the second article in a series. The first is titled The Five Biggest Financial Issues for Pre-Retirees. The years in which you are raising children are among the most important in your life, and financial choices and decisions are no small part.  First, you are managing the widest range of financial demands.  You [...]

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Guest Blog by Kip Robbins, CFA, Zacks.com. Over the weekend, I sat down with my preteen boys and watched Planet of the Apes. No, not the 21st century version.  We watched the 1968 classic starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall. Afterwards, our conversation stirred about the plausibility of apes being the dominant species and humans [...]

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[Editor's note: This book was published back in 2005.]   In light of market conditions today, and what we have been through in the years since the book was published, the book will be of even greater interest to income investors today than when it was published. At the very start of this book, the [...]

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The last several years have been hard for many people.  There are unique challenges for different segments of the population.  In this article, I am going to focus on the issues specific to people who are approaching retirement and will soon be living on investment income and other forms of non-wage income such as pensions, [...]

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There is no question that the promises made by state government pension plans are a major challenge to the future financial health of U.S. states. Many states pensions are already dramatically under-funded. A recent study suggests that the aggregate under-funding in state budgets, including pensions, is over $4 trillion. A 2010 analysis, the definitive research [...]

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