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By Peter Klein |
June 5, 2008
Advances in medicine will contribute to a greater stratification of life spans. Retirees with a life expectancy of an additional 30 years can tolerate more risk in their investment strategies and need to achieve higher returns since they are at
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By Peter Klein |
May 1, 2008
As our knowledge of the universe advances, scientists have become aware of certain unities found within life. For example, every mammal, no matter what size, is issued roughly the same number of heart beats in a lifetime, about 1.5 billion. This
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By Peter Klein |
April 29, 2008
More Americans will reach retirement age over the next two decades than at any other time in this country's history. Unlike their parents who relied on traditional pensions, boomers will be the first generation whose principal retirement
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By Peter Klein |
April 11, 2008
When confronting one's own mortality, the average person is usually in denial. Armand Hammer, a well known industrialist and geo-political power broker, worked right up to the day he died at age 96. In fact, six months prior to his death, he had
