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Rude Awakening

Brown Advisory

The island’s economy has shrunk for nearly a decade and will probably contract by more than 1% during fiscal year 2015, according to a June report commissioned by Puerto Rico and co-written by Anne Krueger, a former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst.

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Microsoft’s 401(k) Retirement Plan Details

Cordant Wealth Partners

Decide upon your asset allocation The first step in investing your 401(k) is determining your “asset allocation,” which is simply the mix of stocks, bonds and cash you’ll hold. This mix of assets is the main building block of your portfolio and will primarily determine the risk and return in the account.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

And so I would see how the over-the-counter desk, over-the-counter stock desk would push stocks and encourage brokers to sell them, put a lot of commission in them, to move them because some big seller was coming into the market. Or should this be kept out of private asset allocators’ hands? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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