If you have a pension, you are probably invested in some way in hedge funds. They have been described as the gated community of investing in part because they require large amounts of available capita..

The current financial crisis has caused some older workers to postpone retirement due to a drop in the value of their retirement accounts. It has also led to renewed compliance scrutiny. Additional..

More than fifty years ago, LaVern Baker & The Gliders, brought Jim Dandy into the fray to lasso runaway horses, dry the tears in little girls' eyes, and to save special mermaids from the hooks of vill..

Crash! The 2007 thru 2008 financial crisis halved 401(k), IRA, and Mutual Fund values in a matter of months. For many, retirement dates had to be pushed back; for others, new jobs had to be found. The..

What if there was an easy way to implement a whole new approach to retirement funding, pension planning, and Social Security? Would the politicians be interested? Let's find out.What if the new plan a..

Who's confiscating your 401(k) and IRA? Dateline Raleigh, NC, November 6, 2008: Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives discuss confiscating our 401(k)s and IRAs, by Carolina Journal O..

While you're making your New Years' resolutions, don't forget to give your financial house an annual tune-up. As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and few adjustmen..

Financial advisors have been preaching the use of portfolio diversification to reduce risk for years. Unfortunately, the way most do it leaves your portfolio vulnerable! Read on to find out how to pro..

Perhaps the only area outside the financial world where performance is so closely measured is the Olympics. Competition is fierce, and with events measured to the hundredths of a second, athletes go t..

There will be many terms you will come across during your research that will be somewhat confusing until you get the terminology down. The path to financial doesn't have to be as complicated as we ten..

In our culture, the main goal of retirement is to put our working days behind us and devote ourselves to the pursuit of pleasure. Many find, though, that continuing to work in some form keeps them act..

It's vital that your nest egg last longer than you do. The only way for that to occur is if the nest egg continues to grow over time. If you take out more than you earn you are guaranteed to run out o..