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How Long Should You Keep Financial Documents

Family Balance Sheet

If the information matches, you can shred your pay stubs. If the information doesn't match, head to your human resource department for correction. Keep the quarterly statements for your 401k or other IRA accounts until you receive the annual statement. This will help you avoid possible identity theft.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

For typical individual investors, without special access to information, it offers what is likely the best financial advice they will ever get: It is hard to consistently beat the market, especially after fees. Without giving too much information, I foresee an engagement in the coming months. Norton and now in its ninth edition.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

History repeats and informs in market technologies. It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. There are so many complex and obscure parts it’s hard to discern what’s going on. ” Financial Planning. We all have skills. Insurance and Risk.

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