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Month: June 2019

5 financial terms that consumers should redefine now

June 28, 2019 by admin

   The recent furor between personal finance icon Suze Orman and members of the FI/RE movement shows a significant gap in the language all savers, investors and retirees are using.    Fixing the problem means coming up with new definitions for common terms.    FI/RE stands for “financial independence/retire early” and its proponents tend to …

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Solving the saver’s most-enviable problem: too much cash

June 24, 2019 by admin

   Marty in East Weymouth, Mass., asked recently if I would tackle what he considered an “oddball question.”    His problem is one everyone might wish for: Too much cash.    “I have a lot of cash and not much in investments,” he said. “I don’t have much faith that I will be in the …

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Why John Neff was one of the last true ‘star’ managers

June 18, 2019 by admin

   Over breakfast one summer morning in the late 1990s, I asked Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle – creator of the index fund and staunch believer in passive investing – what he would say to anyone who suggested that frothy times had made it “a stock-picker’s market.”    I can’t recall Bogle’s exact answer, but …

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Investors’ next challenge is holding on

June 11, 2019 by admin

   Steven S. in Sylvania, Ohio just hit one of his lifetime savings goals, and now he’s freaking out.    You’d think it would be a big celebration, reaching a big round savings number ahead of the rule-of-thumb schedules for being able to retire comfortably.    Instead, Steven’s freak-out is that he’s worried about breaking …

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5 things investors can learn from ‘Jeopardy! James’

June 1, 2019 by admin

   The buzz around Jeopardy! superstar James Holzhauer was so big that I had to tune in to a game show I hadn’t seen in years.    Holzhauer had purportedly “broken” the game – now in its 35th year – by turning traditional strategy on its ear; the winning did not slow down as the …

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