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Late December is, by definition, a seller's market for appreciated assets.
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Asian Stocks Set for Muted Open in Holiday Trade: Markets Wrap Bloomberg.comGold is set for its best year since Jimmy Carter was president CNNSilver tops $75 as gold and platinum surge to records CNBCPrecious metals have been on a heated pre-holiday run. Why this strategist is calling that ‘unhinged.' MarketWatch
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The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) has gone live with an electronic platform that stores and protects cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ether.
The 238-year-old bank's new Digital Asset Custody platform currently allows its US clients to store and transfer blockchain-based cryptocurrency with the same assurances the bank offers to protect traditional assets.
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I don't ignore my retirement accounts, but I consider myself mostly a set-it-and-forget-it investor. I prefer to pick an investment strategy, arrange automatic contributions and then sit back without tinkering much with my portfolio. For that reason, I used a target-date fund in my 401(k) when I had one (I'm self-employed now). My husband invests in a fund with a 2050 target date through his employer plan.
A target-date fund aims to create an appropriate investment mix for the investor's age and approximate retirement date. A fund designed for someone with many years until retirement includes a high proportion of stocks for growth. Over time, the fund regularly rebalances, allocating a greater percentage of assets to less-risky, income-producing investments, such as bonds, as retirement nears.
We're far from alone in our preference for target-date funds. Among 401(k) participants in their twenties, 54% of their assets were in target-date funds at the end of 2019, and investors in their thirties had 45% of assets in target-date funds, according to a study from the Investment Company Institute and Employee Benefit Research Institute. Many large employer plans automatically enroll employees and use target-date funds as the default investment choice.
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Evaluating Your Plan.
Target-date funds are attractive for their simplicity. But if you're dissatisfied with your plan's target-date offerings or have the appetite to construct a customized portfolio, you can typically select among a menu of several other investment options. If you have decades to go until retirement, you may want to dedicate 80% to 90% of your portfolio to stocks. I
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 The launch of Facebook's Libra currency and discussions at the G20 Summit about financial fraud and tax evasion with digital assets has ‘lit a fire under policymakers' to develop better regulatory responses.
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 1. Tesla reaction: Shares in Tesla shot up as much as 15% premarket after Elon Musk agreed to step down as chairman and pay a $20 million fine to settle a case brought last week by US regulators.
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