Remember “The Newlywed Game”? Host Bob Eubanks would isolate just-married men and women and ask a series of questions to determine how well the couples knew one another–and embarrassed everyone in the process. The show started back in the ’60s but has never really gone away; there have been numerous remakes over the years and [...] [...more]
Fidelity Investments today responded to the market’s devastation by launching a major investor education campaign that will include hundreds of free seminars for investors around the country. The seminars will be available to Fidelity customers and non-customers; more than 500 are planned through March. The campaign also includes the launch of a set of free [...] [...more]
Small business organizations are gearing up to oppose–or at least water down–the Obama Administration’s proposal to mandate enrollment for all workers in new bare-bones IRA programs–the so-called Automatic IRA. The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that the National Federation of Independent Business and other small business groups are gearing up to fight the [...] [...more]
While retirement investors have had a miserable time lately, tax season is always a good time to do some long-term planning. With the April 15 tax deadline coming into view, I asked several smart financial planners and tax experts for their best ideas for retirement investors. Most advisers this year are focusing on ways to [...] [...more]
Remember that old ad slogan? “When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.” Wall Street uber-ranter Jim Kramer wants America to keep listening to what Wall Street says, but no one is in the mood right now. Kramer took a stab at reasserting the stock market’s importance in setting the agenda yesterday morning in an appearance on [...] [...more]
