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My 401k Has Turned Positive for the Year!

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m happy to announce that my employee 401k has turned positive for the first time this year! I was very surprised when I saw the data (see image).

To be exact, it is now up 1.2% for year. At one point it was down over 6%.  I’ve been pretty pleased in its performance, considering the broad market was […]

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Regular 401k vs. Roth 401k

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

My employer, National Instruments, has just recently given employees the option of contributing to both a regular 401k and a Roth 401k.  To be honest, this is new territory for me and I haven’t done enough research into what is best for me. So, I’ve been dragging my feet a little and have not started taking advantage of the Roth 401k.  
Today, I ran […]

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