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Earlier interventions can improve financial literacy, especially for women - who are at higher risk due to lower initial literacy levels, lower retirement wealth and longer lifetimes.

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If you're saving and investing for retirement and you want to do well -- without having to become a stock market expert and ...

Gold is a great asset to invest your tax refund dollars in. Here are two ways you can add gold to your portfolio today.

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I looked up my portfolio. My IRA was up and my personal trading account was up 18% in one day. I think it was the biggest one ...