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7 Tips to Maximizing the Tax Benefits of your 401k(s) and IRA(s)

April 6, 2009 / GE Miller

Tax season is almost over but there’s still time to maximize the tax benefits of your 401k(s) and IRA(s). Before you can begin reaping the potential benefits however, you’ll need to ask yourself a few questions relating to your current station in life and where you’d like to be come retirement age. Here are the 7 things you should understand before you make the critical decision of how best to invest for retirement.

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Should I Choose a Traditional, Roth, or SEP IRA?

March 27, 2009 / GE Miller

Choosing where to put your personal retirement savings can be a difficult choice. What do Roth and SEP even mean? Hopefully, the summary and comparative visual chart that follows will help to take the stress out of choosing where your retirement funds should be located and reaffirm the decision for those who have already made the choice.

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How Hidden 401k Fees Can Sink Your Nest Egg

February 6, 2009 / Madison DuPaix

If you’ve been carefully tucking money away in a 401k plan and dreaming of the day you can retire, you may be shocked to learn that money is being withdrawn from your accounts without your knowledge. Here’s our guide to finding the hidden fees in your 401k.

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Vintage Advertisements: Banking’s Glorious Past

December 23, 2008 / Jason Lankow

It has been a pretty wild year full of sensational headlines and talking heads that have turned from cheerleaders into doomsday prophets. Since we are taking a break for the holidays for the remainder of the week, we wanted to give you something light to enjoy and encourage you to take a couple of days off from the strenuous financial planning process, and we will be back next week with new resources to help ensure that 2009 can be a prosperous year for you. Until then, here’s a dose of nostalgia with some humorous (and even slightly ominous) bank advertisements from decades past.

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Loose Lips Sink Stocks

October 28, 2008 / Jason Lankow

The whisper numbers and inside information that inevitably leak have the potential to move markets in an instant, and in many cases the information is true. Increasingly, it seems, we are seeing a rash of rumors that often have the power to temporarily (or even permanently) hit a company’s stock below the belt. Here are a few of the strangest and most notorious rumors that have misled investors, and we look forward to your comments and links to some of the many others that have been heard and acted upon over the years.

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4 Reasons to Roll Over Your 401k

October 15, 2008 / Madison DuPaix

You’ve started a new job so its time to say good riddance to an overbearing boss, long hours, low pay and high stress. But don’t leave your 401k behind. Roll it over to get more control over fees, investment options and how much money you’ll have for retirement.

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What to do When the Market Plunges

October 7, 2008 / James David Spellman

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping more than 800 points Monday as the credit meltdown pushes the world’s economy into a recession, how should prudent investors respond?

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Don’t Save for College, Invest

April 24, 2008 / Ehab Bandar

Every year, as high school bands practice “Pomp and Circumstance,” seniors are busy celebrating — or bemoaning — their college admission decisions. Their parents, meanwhile, may have been scratching their heads for years, trying to figure out how they’re going...

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How-To Guide: Paying for College

April 24, 2008 / Ehab Bandar

At the back of your mind, it lurks, gnawing at you. You can forget about it for a week here or a month there, but inevitably it rises up again to cause you stress and worry. As your infant stands...

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60-Second Guide to Investor Tax Issues

April 24, 2008 / Ehab Bandar

Taxes have come a long way in 95 years. In 1913, paying income tax involved a simple a one-page form. Taxes ranged from 1% to 7%, and less than 1% of the population made enough money to have to pay...

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