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How to Choose the Best Options for Your Company’s 401(k) Plan
It takes more than portfolio diversification to help employees amass the money needed to enjoy life for 20 more years after they quit working full-time.
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How to Launch Your Company's 401(k) Plan
How to set up a retirement plan that maximizes employee contributions, minimizes fees, and puts your staff on the path to making wise investment choices. Read more
Picking a Plan
1. Evaluate Your Needs If you want to encourage your employees to contribute to their retirement, there are two options: a so-called SIMPLE (savi... Read more
The Warren Buffett Debate, Continued
Consider me hazed. After my second post as a blogger for Inc.com, the comments ranged from generally supportive to outright disbelief in what I was writin... Read more
Why Entrepreneurs Can't Invest
It turns out the instincts that make one a good entrepreneur can also make one a bad investor. Read more
Returns: Rational Pessimism
Turns out there's a bright side to falling stock prices. Read more
Sample News Release
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In Search of the Perfect Portfolio
Four entrepreneurs discuss their investment schemes and several experts offer investment tips to business owners. Read more
Winners
Eleven times a year, the money-management magazine FACT publishes the FACT investment Report Card, which chronicles the fate of $10,000 put into a represe... Read more
Play Money
Some companies are earning high returns on their idle cash -- and living to regret it. Read more
It's 1983. Look At The Kinds Of Companies That Are After Your Money
If you are in the market for a house, the chances are fair that you can find one through a Merrill Lynch & Co. real estate agent, and that you can arr... Read more
Mutual Funds: The Sleepy Investment Wakes Up
For openers, when you talk about mutual funds, keep in mind that you are talking about basic money -- bank-account-and-bonds-type money, the kind you expe... Read more
The Advice Business
It is not hard to find a mutual fund to invest in: Just call your broker or, for no-loads, read the ads. Finding the right fund, however, is a bigger job.... Read more
The Tax Angle: Tips And Traps
When you have money in a bank account or money-market fund the interest or dividends you earn is ordinary income, and is taxed as such. Stock and bond mut... Read more
And Now For Something A Little Different
Among the great, gray masses of mutual funds that are listed in the newspaper every day, there are a few that might be considered the nonconformists of th... Read more
Put Your Idle Cash To Work
There are several good places to keep your company's cash when it isn't being used. And a checking account isn't one of them. Read more
The Great Fund Failure
Mutual funds were designed to let the small guy invest in the market cheaply and efficiently. The system doesn't work, though, when fund investors are to... Read more
Suckers Wanted
Alpha Strategies offers to give retail investors a shot at snazzy hedge-fund-style techniques. But then there is the troubling link Alpha's backers have ... Read more
Figuring Out the Fees
Fees for 401(k)s are a hot issue right now -- participants are suing, regulators are tinkering with the rules, and Congress is considering a rewrite. It's... Read more
Saving on 401(k) Costs
A new poll says that many employers may be thinking of how to cut the costs of their employees' 401(k) plans. One key target: mutual funds. Mutual... Read more
20 Best Mutual Funds
Inc.'s finance editor offers readers a list of specific mutual funds that are the right choice for company owners. Read more
How The Pros Pick Growth Stocks
One day in the summer of 1979, Debra Joseph Diamond got a call from an institutional salesman for Rotan Mosle Inc., a regional brokerage firm based in Hou... Read more
A Mutual Friend
On the face of it, setting up a personal holding company sounds like a graceful means for a once-active business to pass into its golden years. Theoretica... Read more
The World According To Arps
The new adjustable-rate and auction-rate preferred mutual funds may be oddities, but companies looking for cash repositories will find their aftertax yields ... Read more
Warren Buffett’s Big Bet
In "The Breakthrough Company" I spend a chapter detailing how important it is for a company to place strategically timed bigger bets in order to break thr... Read more
Mutual Benefits
The financial services industry has a new product -- mutual funds that enable corporations to capture aftertax profits of 9% or more on their idle cash. Read more
The Making of an Inc. 500 CEO: My Favorite Job
A close-up article that features one CEO, and how he took his start-up publication to the top of the heap. Read more
No-load Mutual Funds
The following list of five of the largest no-load mutual fund distributors was provided by the No-Load Mutual Fund Assn. Fidelity Group (800) 225-61... Read more
Supreme Court Opens New Front In 401(k) Suits
This was shaping up to be a good week for business at the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, the justices delivered decisions in Read more
The Fund That Pays No Taxes
Using old tax provisions and new money-managing tactics, shareholders can convert dividend payments to capital gains. Read more
The Only Guide to Investing an Entrepreneur Will Ever Need: Our Manifesto
A look at the thinking behind Inc.com's new investing blog. Read more
An Unusual Jobs Plan
Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell is one of the most popular politicians in America, with the sixth best net job approval rating for any sitting governor... Read more
Venture On The Cheap Publicly Traded Companies
Nearly two years ago, Merrill Lynch Venture Capital Inc. put together an unusual partnership. While most venture capital funds raise money in chunks of $1... Read more
Risk and Return
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Iras: Better The Second Time Around
The ads came fast and furious. "Open Your IRA Now!" "Only Two Days Left!" Right up to April 15, 1983, the last day most people could open an individual re... Read more
Fund Earmarks $50 Million for Small Businesses
CRAFund Advisors is focusing on minority entrepreneurs and communities damaged by natural disasters. Read more
Mortgage-backed Securities
Although interest rates dropped for most of this year, consumer loan rates remained stubbornly (from the borrower perspective) or satisfyingly (from the b... Read more
Fund Earmarks $50 Million for Small Businesses
CRAFund Advisors is focusing on minority entrepreneurs and communities damaged by natural disasters. Read more
Picking A Pac
Political action committees are "an investment that pays off." Here are some ways to measure your return. Read more
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