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...time to have a lot of eggs in one basket. Generally you are free to reallocate stock bought with your contributions. If you've got 20% of your assets in your employer's stock, shift a portion into diversified stock mutual funds or, to get conservative, intermediate-term bond funds or guaranteed-income contracts. Stock your employer kicked in generally can't be touched. But some plans will let you reallocate those shares after you've been with the company a specified length of time or have reached...
...rule on saving for retirement was that you should gradually reduce the percentage of stocks in your portfolio and increase the percentage of bonds. In fact, a common recommendation still used by some planners is to match your percentage of bonds to your age: at your 65th birthday hold 65% bonds (or bonds and cash) and 35% stocks. But a typical bond, the five-year Treasury, historically yields only about 5.3% and yields even less today--about 4.5%. The broad stock market, in contrast, has returned an annual average of about 11% a year since 1926, 18% a year since...
There are, of course, risks to putting the bulk of your retirement money in the market, such as the chance that stocks will stay down for five years. But there are also risks in holding low-yielding bonds and cash--chiefly the risk that you'll outlive your money. Also, most bond prices would be hit by any revival of inflation. Sticking with stocks is a gamble that financial planner Satovsky says is worth it "if you want to live to 100 and not go broke...
...bittersweet peace with Israel; even the falling out with his younger brother Hassan in the last six months of his life. His quiet but unflinching partnership with the West earned him little but trouble from other Arab states. Despite everything, his charisma and unwavering hope created a powerful bond with his subjects and made Jordan one of the Middle East's most respected nations...
...Reason to comp Satire V: Bond with fellow Yardlings with palindrome fetish...