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Stories engaging MarketWatch readers this past week include a couple of doses of hard retirement reality: What to do if you are over 50 years old and have no retirement savings, and what you give up by retiring early. Both situations call for acceptance, humility, and the foresight to handle financial circumstances and challenges with open eyes and a level head.
In other stories, read about stocks with big dividend payouts, nontransparent ETFs, and why you want a financial adviser to know about your life as well as your money.
— Jonathan Burton
INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Have nothing saved for retirement? Follow the ‘austerity’ solution
Play time is over — it’s time to sock away half of your paycheck. Yes, half.
Have nothing saved for retirement? Follow the ‘austerity’ solution
4 things I sacrificed by retiring early
I can’t do everything I want or have everything I want in early retirement.
4 things I sacrificed by retiring early
The inventor of the 401(k) thinks it has gone awry
Ted Benna didn’t intend to reimagine how Americans save for retirement.
The inventor of the 401(k) thinks it has gone awry
Blame your index fund for why companies don’t do more to fight climate change
Shareholder votes on the environment will likely fail, but there’s a more powerful option than divesting from Big Oil.
Blame your index fund for why companies don’t do more to fight climate change
You can capture a dividend above 5% and still enjoy stock-market growth
Jeff Jonas of Gabelli talks about a closed-end fund that invests in the health-care and consumer staples sectors.
You can capture a dividend above 5% and still enjoy stock-market growth
Can ‘nontransparent ETFs’ save active investing?
Active managers are locked in a 30-year war of attrition against passively managed exchange-traded funds, which have transformed from a niche to a juggernaut, representing roughly $4 trillion in assets today.
Can ‘nontransparent ETFs’ save active investing?
How big investors harness ‘alternative data’ to give you a market edge
New technology levels the playing field for mutual funds, venture capital, and hedge funds.
How big investors harness ‘alternative data’ to give you a market edge
This one skill separates the best financial advisers from the rest
Learn how investors really feel about money and why.
This one skill separates the best financial advisers from the rest
Here’s how augmented reality will transform how you shop online
AR and VR will eliminate returns and transform online shopping. Here’s how.
Here’s how augmented reality will transform how you shop online
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