Category Archives: Retirement
Best investments at ages 45 to 54
With 20-plus working years under your belt, you’re beginning to close in on retirement.
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It’s Time to Rebalance the Investment Portfolio – Your Money
As markets move up and down, it’s a good idea to rebalance your investments periodically to ensure that the proportions you desire still hold.
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Pensions Find Riskier Funds Fail to Pay Off
Public worker’s pension funds, which have increased expensive investments in private equity, real estate and hedge funds, have been outperformed by stocks and bonds in the last five years, for a fraction of the fees; analysis of sampling between some states’ funds presents an unflattering portrait of the riskier bets; the funds with a third to more than half of their money in private equity, hedge funds and real estate had returns that were more than a percentage point lower than returns of the…
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Target-Date Retirement Funds Offer a Strategy Spectrum
Target-date retirement funds have grown quickly in popularity, but their many stock-versus-bond strategies give the category a bit of a Wild West air.
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Ideas on Company Pensions Include Turning to States
Some state officials are considering a novel proposal to rebuild America’s ailing retirement system: having state pension funds run retirement plans for companies.
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Pension Funds Making Alternative Bets Struggle to Keep Up
Pension funds that have increased expensive investments in private equity, real estate and hedge funds have been outperformed by stocks and bonds in the last five years.
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Polish Workers Protest Plan to Hike Retirement Age
Thousands of people from across Poland demonstrated noisily Friday outside Parliament to protest government plans to raise the retirement age to 67.
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Retirement planning: It’s not just money
Most retirement planning emphasizes financial considerations. How can I plan for the way I’ll live after I leave work? — David, Miami, Fla.
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EU Regulators Clear Royal Mail Pension Revamp
Privatisation of Royal Mail Group moved a step closer after EU regulators approved government plans to take on its deficit-ridden pension scheme.
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Government to Take on Royal Mail Pension to Pay Down Debt
Chancellor George Osborne will use a 28 billion pound ($ 44.36 billion) asset transfer from taking on the Royal Mail’s pension fund to pay down government debt next year, a government source said on Sunday.
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