Kiplinger's Personal Finance

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Contents

Why Box Yourself In?
10
Mutual funds, Mutual fund managers
Economy Stays in the Game
18
Economic forecasting
What You Need to Know about Holiday Gift Returns
26
Return of goods, Christmas gifts
Building Confidence in Your Investments
27
Portfolio management
Two Cheers for Funds
28
Mutual funds
Helping Doctors Go Paperless
64
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Firm) (Securities), Electronic medical records
Go for the Green
65
Matthew Patsky (American investment manager.), Jackson Robinson (American investment manager.), Winslow Green Growth Fund (Investments), aQuantive, Inc (Securities), Durect Corporation (Securities), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc (Securities), Sonic Solutions, Inc (Securities)
A Better Way to Play Lotto
66
Scientific Games Holdings Corp (Securities), Lotteries
Rankings
70
Mutual funds (Rate of return, Rating)
Satisfaction Guaranteed
76
Consumer complaints, Consumer protection

Where to Put Your Money Now
34
Stocks (Price forecasting)
Take a Short Ride on the Rate Wave
36
Bonds (Yields)
Look to the Land of the Rising Sun for Big Gains
37
Foreign securities (Price forecasting)
Stocks to Own in 2006
40
Aetna Inc (Securities), American Express Co (Securities), General Electric Co (Securities), Granite Construction Inc (Securities), Ingersoll-Rand Co (Securities), Medtronic, Inc (Securities), Microsoft Corporation (Securities), United Parcel Service of America, Inc (Securities)
What's Your House Worth?
42
Housing (Costs), Real estate investment (Forecasting), Cities and towns (Rating)
Protect Yourself from a Lousy Deal
47
House buying
What's Driving the Asian Giants?
50
Securities (China, India), Mutual funds (China, India), China (Economic conditions), India (Economic conditions)
The Year's Most Enriching Reads
58
Investments (Bibliography)
Tax Reform? Dream on
62
Tax reform
A Family-friendly Vacation Home
82
Vacation houses, Partnership, Friendship, Family, House buying
Think Tax-Free
85
Roth 401(k) plan (Taxation)
The Art of the Raise
86
Pay raises, Negotiation
Free Money for Grad School
87
Colleges and universities (Graduate work), Student aid
In the IPod Zone
94
MP3 players
IPod to the Max
100
MP3 players (Equipment, Rating)
The Compleat Closet
102
Meryl Starr, Closets, Organization
The BMW Uber Machine
105
BMW M5 (Automobile)

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