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How To Reduce Risk In Your Retirement Portfolio
(Money Magazine) — The stock market keeps taking a hammer to the conventional wisdom about retirement investing. Conventional wisdom, circa autumn 2007 (Dow 14,000): You could be retired for 30 years or more. You need lots of stocks so that your money will grow enough to last that long. Conventional wisdom, circa spring 2009 (Dow… »
How Social Security Factors In To Your Retirement Planning
(Money Magazine) — You’ve probably spent a lot of time sweating over your 401(k) and IRA. But have you given much thought to the way Social Security will fit into your retirement plans? You should. In fact, Social Security provides 50% of the income for more than half of married retired couples and about 20%… »
How Jim Rogers Became CEO Of Duke Energy
(Fortune Magazine) — My parents were programming me to be a doctor, but I ended up becoming a lawyer. I got married during college and worked at night as a newspaper reporter covering police and courts.In a sense what led me to be a lawyer was my DNA — my father was one — and… »
How To Save The World At Work
NEW YORK (Fortune) — Dear Annie: Call me an old hippie (I served in the Peace Corps in the late ’60s), but I’ve always wished I could find a job that would let me make a decent living while also doing some real good for someone. I’ve volunteered for local nonprofits all through my finance… »
How To Get A Fair Home Appraisal On Your Property
(Money Magazine) — 1. The new rules don’t guarantee accuracy After the bust, lenders came under fire for pressuring appraisers to inflate property values. Now banks are largely required to work with independent appraisers, which should help fix the problems that may have led buyers to overpay. If you’re the owner and want to sell… »
How We Got A Loan
(CNNMoney.com) — Matthew and Marnie Brannon, co-owners of Midwest Fiat in Columbus, Ohio, have run their vintage Italian car parts and service shop for five years. Late last year, they were offered the chance to buy a competitor and expand their business — but no bank would lend them the money to do it. After… »
How Fear And Greed Can Derail Your Stock Strategy
(Money Magazine) — Fear and greed. Those are the emotions that rule the markets, and changes in stock prices simply reflect the swing of the pendulum between the two extremes. Only lately the swings have arrived with more violence than a Transformers movie. First came fear, specifically of a financial system meltdown. That triggered one… »
ATampT How The Biggest Telecom Goes After Stimulus
NEW YORK: Big businesses are battling to take home chunks of the government’s billion-dollar stimulus pie and AT&T is among the leaders on the telecom front.That comes as little surprise, given its size and resources. AT&T (T, Fortune 500) is by far the nation’s largest telecom company, racking up 124 billion in sales last… »
How Chromatics Ink Makes Coors Beer Labels Change Color
(Fortune Small Business) — As an undergraduate at Cornell University, Lyle Small annoyed his housemates by spending days on end painting their Ping-Pong table in rainbow shades of ink. He brewed chemicals to create inks that changed hue when exposed to light and heat. “I got obsessed,” says Small, now 41. “I thought all printing… »
How I Got Started Quiksilver CEO Bob McKnight
(Fortune Magazine) — We had a vacation house in Newport Beach, Calif., so I was always in and around the water and loved to surf. My dad was an importer, and on a trip to Japan he brought me home a movie camera. I started filming surfers at the local beach and then editing and… »