 | Choosing investment adviser can be as tricky as picking stocks
MILWAUKEE - After one of the worst market downturns in history, some shell-shocked investors are looking to professionals to make investment decisions for them.
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| Reverse mortgages can be good source of money for elderly homeowners
All of us who own stocks or stock funds are moaning and groaning about the 3-year-old bear market. But there's another group of sufferers: fixed-income investors, many of them elderly.
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| Safer investments for retirees suffer under new tax law
Assume you're a retiree who needs steady, dependable investment income, or you're a younger person who wants some traditional "fixed-income" holdings such as bonds.
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| Medicare drug bill: An impending disaster
With the support of the Bush administration, or at least with its acquiescence, Congress appears on course to enact a huge new entitlement aimed at middle-income Americans. President Bush likely will sign whatever bill emerges. As Nancy-Ann DeParle, a Medicare administrator for President Clinton, puts it, "In signing it, as he will surely be forced to do, he will preside over the biggest expansion of government health benefits since the Great Society."
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| Social Security Q&A
Q: I soon will be 60 years old and am afraid I will not qualify for widow's benefits at that time. I was married to my husband for many years. But four years after he died, I married another man. That marriage was later annulled because of fraud on his part. Did that mistake mess up my chance to get my first husband's Social Security?
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| Don't rely on laws to fight predatory loans
You've heard a lot about recent laws to protect homeowners from the predatory mortgages that strip some people of their biggest asset - the equity in their house.
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| When disaster strikes, you may be able to deduct it
It's hard enough going through tough times.
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| Credit insurance not much of a safety net
Anytime you buy something on credit - whether a car or a couch or a computer - you can expect to be offered an add-on called credit insurance.
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