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10 Things You Must Know About Medicare

Kiplinger — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:27:22 Z

10 Things You Must Know About Medicare Heading into your retirement years brings a slew of new topics to grapple with, and one of the most maddening may be Medicare. Figuring out when to enroll,

6 Ways Retirees Can Cut Health-Care Costs

Kiplinger — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:26:20 Z

6 Ways Retirees Can Cut Health-Care Costs Medical expenses are likely to be one of your biggest expenses in retirement, and people totally underestimate the cost: Nearly half of the

Harbor Bond

Kiplinger — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:25:15 Z

Symbol: HABDX Expense ratio: 0.54% 800-422-1050 Run by Bill Gross, this high-quality bond fund is a near-clone of his leviathan, Pimco Total Return, the world's biggest mutual fund. At

Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade

Kiplinger — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:24:49 Z

Symbol: ( VFSTX ) Expense ratio: 0.20% 800-635-1511 If interest rates rise, this fund can provide some shelter. The high-quality portfolio holds mostly corporate bonds and mortgage

Tax Deductions for Student-Loan Interest

Kiplinger — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:24:44 Z

What are the rules for deducting student-loan interest on my tax return? Up to $2,500 in student-loan interest can be tax-deductible in 2013 if your modified adjusted gross income is less than

Try Something New With an Encore Career

Kiplinger — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:49 Z

Jeff Landre is in the vanguard of a new type of retiree: the encore careerist. For most of his working life, Landre held management positions in field service and global logistics at technology

Pimco Looks to Clone ETF Success

Kiplinger — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:26:45 Z

How do you follow up one of the most successful exchange-traded fund launches in history? You start three more, of course. Ba-dum-bum-CHING Last year, Pimco, the Newport Beach, Cal., bond giant,

Automatic 401(k) Saving Features No Fail-Safe to Retirement Success

Kiplinger — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:03:53 Z

If your 401(k) is on autopilot, it may be time to grab the wheel. A growing number of employers are adding automatic features to these workplace retirement-savings vehicles, typically sweeping

7 Transportation Stocks Pulling Strong

Kiplinger — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:21:24 Z

The economy may be limping along, but it's full steam ahead for transportation-related stocks. Over the past year, the Dow Jones transportation average, which includes airlines, railroads, and

A Wise Entry to Closed-End Funds

Kiplinger — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:21:14 Z

You often hear closed-end funds touted as a way to buy a dollar's worth of assets for 85 cents. This they sometimes are. But CEFs are much more complicated than the slogan suggests. Unless you're

Marrying Value with Momentum

Kiplinger — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:25:15 Z

BWLIX So far, the approach has worked, helping the managers achieve their goal of beating the Russell 1000 Value index, a measure of undervalued large-company stocks. Although the no-load,

Best Brokers for Free ETFs

Kiplinger — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:24:42 Z

The appeal of exchange-traded funds is undeniable: low fees, predictability and transparency. Now you can add one more plus: Big online brokers are fighting fiercely for customers by letting them

A Bold 401(k) Overhaul

Kiplinger — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:24:20 Z

There's no longer any debate over whether working Americans are accumulating enough savings and employer contributions, supplemented by Social Security, to live comfortably in retirement.

Hope for Retirement

Kiplinger — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:23:51 Z

Several months ago I got a panicked phone call from a TV news reporter. Fidelity had just released a report showing that people should expect to save eight times their final salary in order to

Investing Lessons for Income Seekers

Kiplinger — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:23:12 Z

This is my 100th "Cash in Hand" column, counting those that have run in the magazine and those that have appeared only on the Web ( see them all ). I'd like to mark this milestone by