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Generators like Calpine and Duke Energy (whose stock is up more than 20% this year) that sell their power to providers outside their home base are favorites. Peco and Louisiana-based Entergy, the nation's third largest power producer, have even embraced the once imploding field of nuclear energy, seizing on it as a lucrative way to produce power for the spot market. "Nuclear was viewed as an albatross--you just tried to survive it," says J. Wayne Leonard, CEO of Entergy. Leonard is spending $4.5 billion buying up nuclear plants at garage-sale prices. So far, his strategy seems...
...their clients' interest to settle. "One of these days, one of the industry's lawyers in court someplace like Jefferson County, Miss., is going to call headquarters and say, 'This jury just returned a $1 billion verdict,'" Scruggs said. "Just think what that will do to the company's stock...
...equation starts to shift, though, as you near retirement age. In some cases, late in your career--say, five years from retirement--it makes sense to stop contributing to tax-deferred accounts and stash your money in a taxable low-cost stock-index fund instead. Why? Because the compounding effect of tax-free investing needs years to overcome the higher tax rate applied to such accounts at the time of withdrawal. And taxable accounts get the benefit of skipping capital-gains tax altogether when the account changes hands at death...
...retire. The up-front tax deduction, tax-free growth and employer match are that powerful. But a study by mutual-fund company T. Rowe Price suggests that in cases where the 401(k) plan has no employer match, the edge isn't all that great. A taxable stock-index fund might be your best savings vehicle late in your career...
...amounts over 25 years and exhausts the account. Here's what her last five years' worth of contributions would net on an after-tax basis: $157,400 from a 401(k) with an average match; $121,000 from a 401(k) with no match; $102,300 from a taxable stock fund, and just $93,087 from a low-cost variable annuity. The 401(k) with a match is a clear winner. (If your employer doesn't match, maybe you should find one that does.) But the difference between the no-match 401(k) and the taxable fund...