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Refresh Your Financial Life: Retirement

Refresh Your Financial Life: Retirement

The best ways to capitalize on the economic recovery. Today: retirement.

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Swapping Annuities Tax-Free

Tax-free exchanges let you switch to lower-cost annuities, without the tax hit.

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Breaking Your Broker's Code of Silence

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More Insurers Raise Fees on Variable Annuities

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Ticked Off

Insurers Abandon Rosy View of Variable Annuities

Why some are dropping these big-promise products.

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Ticked Off

Payout Funds Offer No Guarantees for Retirees

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