Retirement Spending
Fool's School
One of the hardest tasks in retirement is deciding how much of your savings you can afford to spend. Traditionally, many investors have followed the 4 percent rule, where you multiply the savings you have when you enter retirement by 0.04, or 4 percent. The result is what you take from your savings for the year. Full Story
Name That Company
You probably don't know my name, but I'm the top maker of private label foods, sold under the individual labels of various grocery, mass merchandise and drugstore retailers. These include cereals, cereal bars, snack mixes, corn chips, crackers, cookies, snack nuts, chocolate candy, salad dressings, mayonnaise, peanut butter, jams, jellies, syrups, sauces and more. Full Story
Retro Crocs
The Motley Fool Take
Crocs (Nasdaq: CROX) is going retro, but unfortunately for investors, it's not flashing back to its heady days of growing sales and soaring shares. Instead, it's simply trying a new — and purely cosmetic — twist on the old Crocs. Full Story
Market Order Mayhem
My Dumbest Investment
Several years ago, I read in my Sunday paper about a company that was working on a way to cure cancer. Its stock had closed around $12 per share on Friday, so I placed a "market" order to buy 200 shares when trading commenced on Monday. I ended up getting my shares at the opening price of $83. The stock hit $85 briefly and then careened down to the $20s. Full Story
Last week's trivia answer
Based in Philadelphia and one of Fortune magazine's "Most Admired Companies," I offer food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to health care institutions, universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, and businesses. These include more than 700 correctional facilities, and 15 national and state parks and forests. Full Story
The Fund Scoop
Ask the Fool
Q I'm about to begin investing. I've read that when it comes to mutual funds, I shouldn't waste my time in anything but a low-cost index fund. Is that right? — E.O., online A For most people, a broad- market index fund is perfect. An S&P 500 fund will instantly have you invested in 500 of America's biggest companies. Full Story
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