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Retirement: Secure Your Dreams-Growing Your Nest Egg: Risk and Return

Last Updated: August 01, 2007 Related resource areas: Personal Finance

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All sources of retirement income are important to your overall retirement security, but savings and investments are the piece of the picture that you can design and over which you have the most control. How your principal and earnings grow to become a nest egg will depend not only on how much you put aside annually during your working years, but also on the investment decisions you make during this time.

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Author: Patricia Swanson and Elizabeth Kiss, Iowa State University


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