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Am I Saving Enough to Reach My Goals?

This is the second installment in our series on how individual investors can assess their financial health. The starting point for any discussion of a household’s financial health is to evaluate...

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Am I Saving Enough in an Emergency Fund?

This is the third installment in our series on how individual investors can assess their financial health. Surveys of consumer finances often conclude that American households have far too little—if...

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Am I Better Off Investing or Paying Down Debt?

This is the fourth installment in our series on how individual investors can assess their financial health. A common dilemma in personal finance is whether to use funds to pay down debt faster or to...

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Is My Portfolio at the Right Risk Level?

This is the fifth installment in our series on how individual investors can assess their financial health. At every stage of investing, you should periodically ask yourself how much risk you can...

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Saving Through the Ages

Guest post by Contributing Editor, Matthew Amster-Burton, Mint.com. Reputable financial advisors, websites and your mom say to save for retirement, college, a down payment for a home and emergencies. A...

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Oil, Markets, Volatility

Guest post by Contributing Editor, David R. Kotok, Cumberland Advisors. Sharply lower oil prices have occasioned a huge discussion about their impact. We see it play out daily in newspapers, on TV and...

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3 Insights into the Millennial Investor

Generation Y—also known as the Millennial Generation—refers to the population segment born between the early 1980s and late 1990s. Like most generational cadres, this demographic tends to have a...

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The Volatility of Volatility: What You Need to Know About the VIX

Volatility is often perceived by investors as a negative. No one likes to think about the likelihood that their stock prices will move in the wrong direction. And a high level of volatility can act as...

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Long-Term Investing: Avoiding the Urge to Trade

It’s easy to talk about ignoring short-term market events and to recommend focusing your attention on the market’s long history of positive returns. It’s another thing entirely to sit through the daily...

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Don’t React To Every Bit of Stock Market News

When you’re learning to play football, one of the first things any coach will teach you is to watch the other player’s waist. The reason for that is that it’s easy to get faked out by watching the...

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