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Cost of Retirement

Use this calculator to estimate how much income and savings you may need in retirement.

Risk Tolerance

This calculator is designed to help you clarify your comfort level with investment risk.

Mortgage Refinancing

Determine whether you should consider refinancing your mortgage.

Cash Flow Analysis

This Cash Flow Analysis form will help you weigh your income vs. your expenses.

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Investing Can Be Funds

The popularity of mutual funds is not surprising, considering the benefits they can offer to investors. Some of these benefits could help make mutual funds an important part of your portfolio.

Put Some Infrastructure in Your Portfolio

The normally placid muni bond market has been roiled by a confluence of variables related to the stock market, slow economic growth, and credit-market woes. One result has been yields high enough to get the attention of investors who normally stick to Treasurys.

HOT TOPIC: The Fed Plans to Spend Trillion or More to Spur Growth

For the first time in a generation, the Federal Reserve has undertaken a campaign to influence long-term interest rates, a departure from recent monetary policy that has focused almost exclusively on short-term rates.

The Positives of Negative Correlation

Few asset groups are perfectly negatively correlated, but a portfolio may still be able to benefit from the correlation principle.

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