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There are two basic types of trusts: living trusts and testamentary trusts. A living trust or an "inter-vivos" trust is set up during the person's lifetime. A Testamentary trust is set up in a ...

Glad you asked, because it can be a terrific part of a retirement portfolio. But first you need to know what a stock index is. Thousands upon thousands of individual stocks are traded in the ...

A pension is a retirement account that an employer maintains to give you a fixed payout when you retire. It's a kind of defined benefit plan. Your payout typically depends on how long you worked ...

A defined benefit plan is a retirement account for which your employer does all the work, including ponying up the money and deciding where to invest it. It promises you a set payout when you ...

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Immediate annuities (sometimes called income or payout annuities), are pretty straightforward - basically a mirror image of a life insurance policy. Instead of paying regular premiums to an ...

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There are at least 100 financial designations, and many are just empty titles that don't mean much. The title "retirement specialist," for example, is a made-up label that has no backing from any ...