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In the Brave, New ‘401(k) World,’ You’re On Your Own — But BetterInvesting Can Point You in the Right Direction

On May 1, 2013 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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It’s not a small world, after all. According to New York Times writer Thomas L. Friedman, “It’s a 401(k) World.”

What’s he mean by that? In the hyperconnected, post-Sept. 11 land of the free, we define our own contributions in every way. These include our contributions to our careers in the form of [...]

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Why Today’s Retirement Looks Nothing Like Your Grandparents’

On April 30, 2013 By Angele McQuade, Contributor, BetterInvesting
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Reinvention, not retirement. That’s the unspoken mantra threaded through career coach Nancy Collamer’s new book, Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit from Your Passions During Semi-Retirement. As the baby boom generation grows older, more and more Americans are discovering that their retirement doesn’t look like they expected. If you’re starting to suspect the same [...]

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On the Heels of PBS Frontline Special “Retirement Gamble,” Free Webinar from BetterInvesting to Teach Investors About Mutual Fund Costs and Other Keys to Fund Selection

On April 25, 2013 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich., April 25, 2013  — As PBS’ Frontline shines a spotlight this week on mutual fund fees in its investigation of the retirement planning and mutual fund industries, nonprofit organization BetterInvesting is offering a free webinar tonight to help investors understand the costs associated with mutual funds.

The Frontline [...]

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Investing for Retirement? Here Are Some Tips From a Nobel Laureate With a Really Cute Dog

On April 24, 2013 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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Nobel laureate William Sharpe, a professor emeritus of finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business, says “anyone who tells you the exact amount you can earn investing in the stock market for the next 20 years or 30 years is either crazy or intentionally misleading you.”

That said, Sharpe says online retirement planning software [...]

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Reviewer Gives a Thumbs Up to the Mutual Fund Handbook

On April 16, 2013 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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Everybody loves getting a good review. So here at BetterInvesting, we’re thrilled that the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors recently gave our Mutual Fund Handbook, 3rd Edition, the thumbs up in its magazine, the NAPFA Advisor.

Although NAPFA is pitched to professional advisers and BetterInvesting is geared to do-it-yourself investors, writer [...]

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Can This Investment Club Be Saved?

On April 9, 2013 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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Is it really time for this Florida retirement community investment club to cash in their portfolio, as a newspaper financial columnist advises? The club’s problem, says writer Malcolm Berko in the Lake County (Ill.) News Sun, is that they “haven’t followed the wise, time-tested guidelines established by BetterInvesting, which have worked for thousands of [...]

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Learn How to Select the Very Tastiest Mutual Funds

On April 4, 2013 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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If you’re one of some 60 million Americans, your employer likely offers a mutual fund sampler in your 401(k) plan and leaves you to forage for the tastiest selection — one that’ll presumably please your financial palate for years to come.

If a 401(k) plan were just a box of chocolates, you could get [...]

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Leaving a Job? Packing Up Your 401(k) Is Confusing, Government Report Finds

On April 4, 2013 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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Exiting a job means more than tossing your coffee-stained mug in a box. Whether you’re departing voluntarily — or not — what to do with your 401(k) can be befuddling.

A report from the Government Accountability Office released April 4 found that workers encounter both confusion and misleading information when they roll over [...]

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Is Your 401(k) Keeping Pace With the Stock Market? Run Some Numbers

On March 20, 2013 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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With the stock market galloping away like a Triple Crown winner and our  401(k) and assorted IRA rollovers and Roths looking as if they’re on anabolic steroids, we confess that we cannot — cannot — stop punching away at online retirement savings calculators.

Although we’re not so naïve as to think we’ll be winning [...]

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A Look at Three Types of Mutual Fund Load Fees

On March 12, 2013 By Doug Gerlach, Editor-In-Chief, Mutual Fund Informer
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Investors should be aware of all mutual fund charges, especially mutual fund loads, or sales fees. A load is a sale fee that a fun charges against your investment. Funds charge loads in addition to other expenses. Loads benefit a broker, sales agent or fund’s management company and are direct expenses to the investor. [...]

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