The Top Alternative Funds SmartMoney Online | By: Ian Salisbury | January 26, 2012   Gold, options, currencies, farm land, you can find investments in all of those and more in so-called alternative funds. While dozens of these mutual funds have started in the last year, a select few have been around for some time...Read More

    Six Ways to Maximize Retirement ‘Sweet Spot’ Years During your working years, it is usual to focus more on gaining an immediate deduction for retirement account contributions than on how future withdrawals will be taxed. Financial advisers say that as a result, affluent people often retire with a portfolio of huge tax-deferred IRAs...Read More

Paying More For Dividends The stampede into dividend-paying shares is making many names more expensive. Are they still worth buying? Long favored by risk-averse retirees, dividend-paying stocks have been attracting investors of all stripes lately for their high yields and market-trumping returns. But as their popularity grows, even some advisers are starting to ask: Are...Read More