Last summer, when I was writing a story about health insurance options for early retirees, I found an incredibly useful resource for individuals trying to obtain health insurance for themselves and/or their families: a web site run by Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute. The web site, operating under the generic-sounding title healthinsuranceinfo.net, was a collection [...]
When the markets began to tank last fall, investors fled to cash and cash-like investments. No one cared if yields were paltry. The return of principal rather than the return on principal was the biggest priority.
The result today is that you may hold more cash in your portfolio than during the years leading up to [...]
Every month Merrill Lynch (or Bank of America Securities-Merrill Lynch for you scorekeepers) checks in with a bunch of big time money managers to take their bullish/bearish temperature. Collectively the 400 or so global managers in the May survey are pushing the buttons controlling portfolios worth nearly $1 trillion, so we’re not talking about [...]
The Obama administration brought one of the leading proponents of retirement plan reform into the official fold in late April, signaling the administration is going to push hard to reform the retirement saving plan system.
Mark Iwry has segued from wonk-land (Brookings, and principal at the Retirement Security Project) to become the new senior adviser to [...]
After losing nearly half its value in 2008, Fidelity Magellan (FMAGX) is finally regaining its stride. Since the start of the year through May 21, Manager Harry Lange has steered the $21 billion fund to a 13% gain. That return beats the Standard & Poor’s 500 index by a whopping 13.5 percentage points, according to [...]
