31 Mar 2026

Retirement Planning: Spending, Pensions, and Inflation

When planning for retirement, several important factors determine whether your financial plan will work over the long term. Three of the most important areas people need to think about are understanding their spending, knowing how their pension works, and accounting for inflation over time. The following sections explore these topics in more detail. Retirement Planning: When You Haven’t Tracked Your Spending Planning for retirement is not a subject you dwell… Read More

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29 Jul 2014

Pension Cuts Hedge Fund Investments

I was reading the Wall Street Journal over the weekend and saw that the California Public Employees Retirement System (Calpers) was cutting back their hedge fund exposure by 40 percent. Given that hedge funds have generally struggled over the past five years, I was interested to see what the article said, and, basically, it said that they weren’t happy with the lackluster performance and high fees. The article then said… Read More

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