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After thinking about it for a long while, I finally started up a Roth IRA for myself. Now, I'm trying to make myself an excel spreadsheet to track my progress.<BR>So, here's the initial ...

In a recent class, my students at Texas Lutheran University were reviewing their investment portfolio. Since its inception nearly 10 years ago, their portfolio has grown at a rate of 15.7 percent per ...