Articles by Kiplinger
Tax Deductions for Student-Loan Interest
5/21/2013, 8:24 am from Kiplinger in Personal Finance, Taxes
What are the rules for deducting student-loan interest on my
tax return? Up to $2,500 in student-loan interest can be tax-deductible in
2013 if your modified adjusted gross income is less than... Read >>
Try Something New With an Encore Career
5/17/2013, 8:26 am from Kiplinger in Personal Finance, Retirement
Jeff Landre is in the vanguard of a new type of retiree: the
encore careerist. For most of his working life, Landre held
management positions in field service and global logistics at
technology... Read >>
Pimco Looks to Clone ETF Success
5/16/2013, 8:26 am from Kiplinger in Investing, Insurance
How do you follow up one of the most successful exchange-traded
fund launches in history? You start three more, of course.
Ba-dum-bum-CHING Last year, Pimco, the Newport Beach, Cal., bond giant,... Read >>
Automatic 401(k) Saving Features No Fail-Safe to Retirement Success
5/15/2013, 8:03 am from Kiplinger in Personal Finance, Retirement
If your 401(k) is on autopilot, it may be time to grab the
wheel. A growing number of employers are adding automatic features to
these workplace retirement-savings vehicles, typically sweeping... Read >>
7 Transportation Stocks Pulling Strong
5/10/2013, 8:21 am from Kiplinger in Investing, Insurance
The economy may be limping along, but it's full steam ahead for
transportation-related stocks. Over the past year, the Dow Jones
transportation average, which includes airlines, railroads,... Read >>
A Wise Entry to Closed-End Funds
5/9/2013, 8:21 am from Kiplinger in Investing, Insurance
You often hear closed-end funds touted as a way to buy a
dollar's worth of assets for 85 cents. This they sometimes are. But
CEFs are much more complicated than the slogan suggests. Unless
you're... Read >>
Marrying Value with Momentum
5/7/2013, 8:25 am from Kiplinger in Investing, Insurance
BWLIX So far, the approach has worked, helping the managers achieve
their goal of beating the Russell 1000 Value index, a measure of
undervalued large-company stocks. Although the no-load,... Read >>
Best Brokers for Free ETFs
5/7/2013, 8:24 am from Kiplinger in Investing, Insurance
The appeal of exchange-traded funds is undeniable: low fees,
predictability and transparency. Now you can add one more plus: Big
online brokers are fighting fiercely for customers by letting... Read >>
A Bold 401(k) Overhaul
5/7/2013, 8:24 am from Kiplinger in Investing, Insurance
There's no longer any debate over whether working Americans are
accumulating enough savings and employer contributions,
supplemented by Social Security, to live comfortably in... Read >>
Hope for Retirement
5/7/2013, 8:23 am from Kiplinger in Personal Finance, Retirement
Several months ago I got a panicked phone call from a TV news
reporter. Fidelity had just released a report showing that people
should expect to save eight times their final salary in order... Read >>