Household Finance
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Some positive tweaks to retirement rules.
Household Finance
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Understand your expected family contribution.
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How college scholarships can help you pay for school
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Investing
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The bonds that hold it together.
Retirement
The spousal IRA: Helping your spouse save for retirement
Spread savings across the household.
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Pinpoint your investing strategy around a deadline.
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serial bond
serial bond, in finance, bond in an issue for which the maturity dates are spread over a period of years so that a certain number of bonds fall due each year. The serial-bond system of debt retirement is widely used by states and municipalities in a number of countries and has tended to replace the sinking-fund system in public issues. The variety of maturities in serial bonds allows the issuer to sell to a wider class of investors. In comparison with sinking-fund bonds, serial bonds have a shorter average maturity.