http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2011/07/24/review-a-commonsense-guide-to-your-401k/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2011/07/24/review-a-commonsense-guide-to-your-401k/#comment-953648 tentaculistic Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:06:09 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=7388#comment-953648 I wish I had read this book back when I had to enroll in my 401k, as a real investing novice. I floundered in all the jargon, and hit on the “retirement” fund as the answer to my problems… then didn’t look at it again for years. Finally I had a sharp wake-up call (thanks to my now-husband) when I found out that I had been scrimping and saving to invest in an account for people IN retirement, i.e. extremely low risk so extremely low returns! Arggghhhh! Those were really rough years, and I gave up a lot so that I’d be covered in retirement. I still kick myself about that one, all that lovely compound interest I just… lost. As I said, still kicking myself.

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