Kiplinger's Personal Finance

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Contents

Fix it Now, Or Fix it Later?
16
Social security
Big Boom in Corporate Mergers
24
Corporations (Acquisitions and mergers), Stocks (Price forecasting)
How Many Stocks are Too Many?
32
Portfolio management, Stockholders
My Ten Favorite Stocks
34
Stocks (Price forecasting)
Here's to Dividends
40
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc (Securities), ChevronTexaco Corporation (Securities), Fidelity National Financial Inc (Securities), ServiceMaster Company (Securities), Stanley Works (Securities), Washington Mutual Inc (Securities), Dividends
Rooms to Grow
64
Hilton Hotels Corp (Securities)
Retire in Style
72
Retirement income, Financial planners (Attitudes), Social security (Public opinion)
Great Places to Retire
78
Retirement, Places of, Cities and towns (Rating)
Invest Your IRA in Real Estate?
86
Real estate investment, Individual retirement accounts (Investments)
Time to Come Clean
89
Household employees (Taxation)

Winners Among Companies that Buy Back Stock
43
David Fried, Buyback letter (Newsletter), Stocks (Repurchase, Price forecasting)
9 Simple Truths about Hedge Funds
46
Hedge funds, Mutual funds (Rate of return)
Spin(off) Doctor
52
John Keeley (Jr., American investment manager) (Interviews), Keeley Small Cap Value Fund (Investments), Corporations (Divestiture), Small capitalization stocks (Price forecasting)
Fighting the Family
56
Patrick J. Dirk (American computer industry executive) (Family), Troy Group Inc (Securities), Going private (Securities), Family corporations (Valuation)
An Accent on Quality
58
Jonathan Simon (British investment manager.), J. P. Morgan Mid Cap Value Fund (Investments), Assurant, Inc (Securities), AutoZone Inc (Securities), VF Corp (Securities), Vulcan Materials Co (Securities)
Omaha's Other Star
60
Wallace Weitz (American money manager.), Weitz Value Fund (Investments), Weitz Partners Value Fund (Investments), Weitz Hickory Fund (Investments)
Wise Up. Start Saving More
62
Saving and savings, Consumption (Economics)
Give Kids Credit? Not So Fast
91
Credit cards, Youth (Economic conditions)
When to Phone in a Fender Bender
94
Insurance, Automobile, Traffic accidents
Luxe Hotels, Low Prices
100
Hotels, motels, etc (Rates, Internet resources)
Art Smarts
106
Alan S. Bamberger, Art (Collectors and collecting)
Wheels for the City
110
Compact cars (Rating)
Cheaper Chats
113
Internet telephony (Rates)

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