The old rule of thumb used to be that you should subtract your age from 100 - and that's the percentage of your portfolio that you should keep in stocks. For example, if you're 30, you should keep ...

Not until you reach retirement age. Typically that's 65, though many pension plans allow you to start collecting early retirement benefits as early as age 55. If you decide to start receiving ...

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A pension is a retirement account that an employer maintains to give you a fixed payout when you retire. It's a kind of defined benefit plan. Your payout typically depends on how long you worked ...

These days, Daymond John is best known as the impeccably dressed star investor of reality show Shark Tank, but his reputation -- and his millions -- were first made as the co-founder and chief ...

All else being equal, a bond with a longer maturity usually will pay a higher interest rate than a shorter-term bond. For example, 30-year Treasury bonds often pay a full percentage point or two ...

It was a year of expansion for the women on our list. Several, including PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, pulled off big acquisitions, while thirteen others earned big promotions. More ...

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It was 2001 during the dotcom crash, and Cecilia Pagkalinawan had a tough choice: Raise more money for her startup or let 26 employees go. She set up a meeting with a powerful venture capitalist ...

Notes: *UK Caribbean territories refers to the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos. **Data for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) does not include service export ...

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Education data was collected by the U.S. Census and covers public school children prekindergarten through twelfth grade. Prison data from the Vera Institute was collected in each state using a ...