Tag: equities

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Depressing or eye-opening? An online tool tells you where you stand financially by stacking up your net worth against other Americans. The calculator compares a family’s net worth – financial and other assets minus debts – with all other U.S. families. Homeowners can choose to include the value of their home equity in their tota…

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Abstract Some observers believe that investing a portion of the Social Security Trust Fund in equities would strengthen its finances and improve the program’s intergenerational risk-sharing.  However, equity investments would also expose the program to greater financial risk and potentially greater political risk.  Monte-Carlo simulation methods are used to investigate whether equity investments would likely…