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Calculators

Lifetime Earnings

This calculator is designed to help you attach a dollar figure to your life’s work.

Taxable Equivalent Yield

Calculate the rate of return you would have to receive from a taxable investment to realize an equivalent tax-exempt yield.

Car Affordability

How much can you afford to pay for a car?

College Funding

Use this calculator to estimate the cost of your child’s education, based on the variables you input.

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Newsletters

Exchange-Traded Funds Can Be for Conservative Portfolios, Too

If you avoided ETFs because they were predominantly composed of stocks, the growing availability of bond ETFs might warrant a second look.

Stay Off the Phishing Hook

In the run-up to this year’s April 15 tax deadline, taxpayers forwarded more than 33,000 phishing scam e-mails to the IRS, causing the agency to put phishing at the top of its annual list of scams of concern to taxpayers.

Increase Your Protection

If your net worth exceeds the amount of liability coverage provided by your homeowners and auto insurance policies (each usually tops out somewhere between $300,000 and $500,000), you might want to consider an umbrella liability insurance policy.

Put Some Infrastructure in Your Portfolio

The normally placid muni bond market has been roiled by a confluence of variables related to the stock market, slow economic growth, and credit-market woes. One result has been yields high enough to get the attention of investors who normally stick to Treasurys.

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