(ARA) - If you've delayed planning for retirement because it makes you feel a) old or b) financially inept, think again. With a little foresight, you could be out there enjoying life like other people -- maybe even before you reach the so-called "retirement age." Like many people in the prime of life, it's not unusual to think of retirement as such a distant idea that you avoid saving for it until next week, next year, next job.
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Or, How We Discovered the Real Y2KBy Carol Clark(ARA) - Was it really just a year ago that we were all running around trying to prevent computers from coming to a grinding halt on the first of January, and speculating about civil unrest and traffic jams around the globe?Time flies, even if the ensuing year hasn't been much fun for investors. In hindsight, I'd say the real Year 2000 Bug was the gut-wrenching flu that struck the stock market, bringing a big dose of reality back into the picture.For those of us who have participated in the investment arena for more than just the past couple of years, 2000 will likely go down as "not unprecedented and long overdue.
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(ARA) - With good planning, you can start the year off right by making sure you and your family are financially fit and ready for the new year, and possibly reduce your tax bill. Here is a financial checklist to consider:Tap into the Power of Tax-DeferralIf you are thinking of investing in mutual funds for long-term or retirement savings, purchase a variable annuity. You've got the 1099 forms for 2000 already from any mutual funds you own.
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Talking About MoneyWith Jim Larranaga (ARA) - Only one quarter of Americans age 35 and older have amassed $100,000 or more for retirement, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute's 2000 Retirement Confidence Survey. What's more, the previous year's survey found that 20 percent of "forty-something" workers haven't even begun saving for retirement. If you're among them, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise when you leave your job.
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(ARA) - As tax time nears, many mutual fund investors are starting to wince. While most mutual funds' returns were down last year, their tax bill remains high.After years under-performing the S&P 500, the average US stock mutual fund finally beat the index last year.
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The Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE) is not operating successfully. True, some of the parameters which we use to measure the success of a stock exchange have lately improved in the MSE. For instance, the monthly money volume has increased together with the number of transactions.
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Countries devalue their currencies only when they have no other way to correct past economic mistakes - whether their own or mistakes committed by their predecessors. The ills of a devaluation are still at least equal to its advantages. True, it does encourage exports and discourage imports to some extents and for a limited period of time.
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The exchange rate of the Macedonian Denar against the major hard currencies of the world has remained stable in the last few years. Because of the IMF restrictions, the local Narodna (Central) Bank does not print money and there are no physical Denars in the economy and in the local banks. Thus, even if people want to buy Foreign Exchange in the black market, or directly from the banks - they do not have the Denars to do it with.
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There is an inherent conflict between owners and managers of companies. The former want, for instance, to minimize costs - the latter to draw huge salaries as long as they are in power (who knows what will transpire tomorrow). For companies traded in the stock exchanges, the former wish to maximize the value of the stocks (short term), the latter might have a longer term view of things.
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Abstract A very slim minority of firms distribute dividends. This truism has revolutionary implications. In the absence of dividends, the foundation of most - if not all - of the financial theories we employ in order to determine the value of shares, is falsified.
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Despite your bad credit history, you can borrow new funds from the loan market place without many hurdles created by the lenders. On making some search, you are able to find lenders who are solely in the business of providing bad credit personal loans to people like you who have late payments, arrears, CCJs or payment defaults in their names. These loans are made available to those people, whose credit rating has plunged and they are refused a new loan from elsewhere. [Read more]
If your business requires the financing of additional inventory or a high volume of accounts receivable, a Short-Term Loan may be the ultimate solution.These loans enable people to secure cash from market to start a new business or just to boost up the existing one and the help is provided to him for a short duration of time. Repayment tenure in this case normally lies in between 2 to 5 years. [Read more]
Property prices in the UK have evened out in the past few months. Contrary to what others say, the decline is not necessarily an unfortunate event since prices have risen gradually for a number of years now and a correction was foreseeable at some point. For some in the industry, a slowdown in the property market may not seem like a good time to buy your next investment property. [Read more]
Having a bad credit is not deterrent in attaining a customized loan anymore. Now the time has come for people with bad credit to take a sigh of relief and drive their own vehicle. If you are suffering because of bad credit and desperately need to buy a vehicle, all you have to do is to apply for Car Loans for Bad Credit. [Read more]
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