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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Hubby is one of those lucky few that actually has a pretty safe pension – one that also comes with health plans (which cover me as well) – so calculating his was easy. Our alternate income streams include an inherited IRA, real estate rental income and dividends/interest from investments. Lesson Five – Tackle New.

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

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Yeah, There’s a Calculator for That Refinancing your mortgage to a lower rate and paying the same amount is an interesting sound-byte from Personal Finance Bloggers – but has anyone really run the numbers? The return on this strategy is relatively paltry, as this calculator shows!

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #241 – June 15, 2012

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Habeeb presents How to Calculate Cost of Equity on Common Stock posted at Best Dividend Mutual Funds , saying, “Cost of Equity is defined as the annualized rate of return (%) that investors must achieve on their investments in shares of companies or mutual funds. ” That concludes this edition.

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