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I am eligible to retire from my current job on April 4, 2010. And that is the day that life without work begins.

My retirement will be different than most in that my monthly take home will increase over the years. This is due to a government pension, military retirement and social security.

When I hit 57 years and 4 months, I will be able to call it quits. I will have 5 years working with the US government and will be eligible for a small pension. It will not be enough to live on, but I also have Read on »

An investment firm is an
organization (limited liability firm, business concern, partnership or
corporation) that issues investment securities and is mainly engaged in the
dealing of investment securities. The performance of an investment firm depends
on the performance of the assets and other securities that it owns.

In general, an investment firm is
termed as a financial institution, which sells stocks and shares to individuals
and invests currency in securities of other companies. Read on »

As a landlord, your tightest months for cash flow are usually at the end of the winter and beginning of spring, in March, April and May. Youve just finished paying for the extra costs that winter brings; sky-high utility bills, snow and ice removal, heating issues and so on. Not only that, but any vacant units probably took longer to fill because people are less likely to move during the winter. You might even have had damage from ice dams or frozen pipes.

The end of the winter is the worst possible Read on »

Most of us find it difficult to make the ends meet with the income earned from the primary job alone. The cost of living keeps climbing up at breakneck pace while the meager incomes crawl lazily. As a result millions of Americans have now become creative and have devised ways to earn those extra bucks. It seems like every one is doing one side job or other to keep their lives going with the extra income.

Financial experts very often advice us to make investments in mutual funds and annuities. Read on »

Fidelity Investments, a provider of workplace retirement savings plans, released 401(k) data showing that pre-retiree participants who continuously held a 401(k) plan with Fidelity for the past 10 years more than doubled their account balances.

The average account balance for these pre-retirees, aged 55 years or older, rose to $211,300 by the end of the third quarter of this Read on »