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Carla A. Fried

• Good Health: A Retirement Security Risk?

  Star Trek’s Spock wasn’t exactly attuned to retirement planning when he came up with the Vulcan salutation  “Live Long and Prosper.� For one of the biggest risks to your retirement security is the very fact you may well indeed live a very long time, raising the...

  Blog posts | Oct 14, 2009

• Can You Afford to Retire ... Ever?

  The “new normal” retirement will start at 67, not 62. You’ll pay for it with investments that don’t even exist today. And you’d better start saving now. You know what happened to the Dow and your home’s value, and if you even peek at your 401(k) statements,...

  Articles | Jun 22, 2009

• The Future of Investing

  Want to pick a date for the stock market to get back to its 2007 high? You may need a calendar that goes to 2017. The fact is the forces that fed the fin-de-siecle bull market simply don’t exist anymore. That’s not just recessionary gloom talking. The...

  Articles | Jun 22, 2009

• Working Longer and Liking It

  Like it or not, in today’s rapidly shrinking economy you’re almost certainly going to have to postpone your retirement by a few years. Alicia Munnell, who heads the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, outlines how to stay in the game as long as you need — and enjoy it... Her...

  Articles | Mar 9, 2009

• How to Spot a Bottom

  Is the recent rebound a sign that the stock market has finally bottomed? Or is it just a dead-cat bounce in a stubborn bear market? Only hindsight will tell for sure. But history offers some useful clues. Find out what economic indicators to watch for signs of a real and lasting turnaround....

  Articles | Apr 4, 2009