ANALYSIS: Bully role won't help with Ira
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The Bush administration may be on the verge of getting what it has long sought: United Nations sanctions on a defiant Iran over its accelerated nuclear program. That may not be much of a victory.
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A new SEC rule may not solve all your woes with brokers.
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There's one thing I think we can all agree on when it comes to President's Bush's proposal to set up personal investment accounts as part of the Social Security program: As the saying goes, the devil is in the details and the details are woefully lacking.
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The Motley Fool - We often warn investors to be wary of mutual funds with high turnover. Speedy turnover means the managers are rapidly jumping in and out of various investments -- rather than sticking with them -- and generating steep commission costs and tax hits along the way. We also urge investors themselves not to churn their own portfolios. If you don't have the patience to wait for the companies you believe in to perform -- well, then, you're really just speculating.
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Don't take certain investments for granted.
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Few Americans run their retirement numbers, and the rest are in for a rude awakening. Are you?
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A Fool learns that one great metric for a company does not make for an automatic buy.
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Trying to beat short-sellers can squeeze your wallet instead.
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If you deliver bad news, you should also deliver remedies. That's the message from readers about my column showing that variable annuities did poorly when measured against a simple, low-cost, and flexible index fund investment.
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It can get ugly when investors chase returns.
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A plan to launch a range of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on earnings has triggered skepticism among money managers who say earnings are too simple a measure of performance and too easy to manipulate to base a strategy on.
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Maybe you can live -- and die -- without them. Wealthy Americans often use a fistful of trusts to slash estate taxes, avoid probate, and control how their money is divvied up. But if your worldly assets are shy of seven figures -- meaning you're unlikely to get hit with estate taxes -- you may want to consider some cut-rate ...
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Sometimes it pays to invest where others won't.
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Sometimes, you can help your portfolio most by ignoring it.
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Investor's Business Daily - Insult is about to follow injury. It's bad enough that you've had to put up with a so-so year of market performance. Now you have to brace for an expected rise in stock fund capital gain distributions.
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President Bush's plan to create private investment accounts to augment Social Security would initially benefit a few large players in the money management industry, such as Boston's State Street Corp. But down the road, the sheer sum of money flowing into these accounts could become a boon for other firms, industry officials and analysts said yesterday.
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What you don't know about your 401(k) can really hurt your retirement.