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By Adam Baley Retirement savings accounts such as IRAs offer tax advantages that can boost your investment returns. Understanding the differences between traditional and Roth IRAs opens up planning opportunities and helps you find the right combination of investment vehicles for your retirement plan. […]

Tom Pappenfus shows in a MONEY TALK VIDEO how a Morningstar portfolio snapshot can help track the mix of stocks and bonds that drives investment performance. […]

As the Federal Reserve gets closer to eventually raising interest rates, Steve Giles says investors should keep an eye on the durations of their bond holdings. Steve explains how rising rates affect bonds in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

Finding balance between risk and return is key to successful long-term investing. As Art Rothschild explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO, re-balancing also is needed. […]

By Adam Baley While there is no risk-free way to pay for medical costs in retirement, investors need to be aware of such potential out-of-pocket expenses and their options for covering them. They need to have a plan in place. A key concern is for your spouse – trying to make sure that long-term care expenses do not deplete your assets and leave nothing for your survivor. […]

Puzzling over whether stocks are cheap or pricey requires examining multiple measures and putting them in context, as Dave Sandstrom explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]