神戸大大学院医学研究科(神戸市中央区)などのグループが、1滴の血液から膵臓(すいぞう)がんの指標となる四つの物質を発見、それらを使った診断法の開発に成功した。従来の方法では診断が難しかった早期の膵臓がんでも見分けられ、治療につなげられる,ugg ブーツ 通販。グループは既に大腸がんでも早期診断法を開発。血液1滴で複数の主要ながんが見分けられる診断法を、3年以内にも実用化させたいという,ムートンブーツugg。(金井恒幸) 膵臓がんは年間… [記事全文]
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For most people,专业手镯零售, a 401(k) is almost an ideal investment. Simply by filling out the paperwork for a typical plan, you get:
The only problem is the costs. 401(k) plans are not cheap to manage. Unlike with a typical brokerage account or even an IRA, there are some fairly complicated rules your employer has to follow to assure the 401(k) plan stays in compliance with the law.
That costs money -- money that's above and beyond typical investing fees like mutual fund management fees and trading commissions. And guess who frequently gets stuck with the tab for compliance and other administrative costs?
How Do You Prefer to Pay,专业手镯批发,实惠的价格,超赞的品质。?
While employers are allowed to pass on administrative costs to participants, the big question is how they pass them on. There are generally two methods employers follow. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages, and depending on your personal situation, you'll likely strongly prefer one method over the other.
1. Everyone pays the same amount: The biggest advantages of this method are that it more closely matches what's driving the costs -- the number of people in the plan -- and that it's far simpler to calculate each person's fee. In essence, the statement mailings and the regulatory compliance testing just care if you're participating and how much you're contributing,专业手镯零售, not what your balance is.
The effort to comply is essentially the same whether you've got $1,000 or $1,000,000 in the plan.
The key disadvantage of that method? It can be an incredible disincentive to a person who's just getting started in the plan.
Say you're just out of college with a $40,000-a-year salary, and you want to put away 5 percent of your paycheck. That's $2,000 -- of your hard-earned cash -- going toward your retirement. If your employer charges each participant $100 a year, you lose 5 percent of your first year's contribution to that administrative fee. A charge that large might make you reconsider getting started at all.
2. Everyone pays in proportion to his or her balance: The biggest advantage of this method is that it doesn't discourage new investors from participating. If you're just getting started, using the same assumptions as above, your charge might wind up at $4 for the year on a $2,000 balance (0.2 percent of your balance), rather than the $100 price tag from charging everyone the same.
Of course, on the flip side, the disadvantage is that the proportional charge can get downright painful near the end of your career. Say you've amassed a cool $1,000,000 balance near the time you're ready to retire. Using the same 0.2 percent proportional allocation method, you'd be paying $2,000 a year for the privilege of keeping your money in your 401(k). That's a pretty big chunk of change -- even for a millionaire -- to pay for what amounts to some basic recordkeeping and compliance testing.
Go Big or Go Home
For any investor with a long-term perspective, the first option is clearly the better choice. Even a $100-per-person-per-year fee is less than 1 percent of the first-year maximum contribution that person can make (the limits are $17,000 in 2012 and $17,500 in 2013). If you're at all fee-conscious, a flat charge like that would likely encourage you to put as much away as you possibly can, so that a bigger share of your money stays working for you -- rather than getting eaten up by fees.
In many respects, when it comes to your financial well-being in retirement, the . The more money you regularly put away, and the longer you let that cash compound, the better off you'll likely be in retirement, virtually no matter what the market does along the way.
In the end, regardless of how your company's 401(k) charges its fees, it's hard to beat the tax benefits, potential of a company match, and just plain direct-from-the-paycheck convenience of participating in the plan. Because of those benefits, in spite of the fees, your 401(k) remains a great place to amass a retirement nest egg to take you through your golden years.
is a contributing writer to The Motley Fool.
By any measure, the so-called Home Affordable Refinance Program has been a dismal flop,专业手镯零售, with only an estimated 200,000 or so distressed homeowners managing to get a permanent mortgage loan modification from their lenders. Not anywhere near the roughly 5 million homeowners the Obama administration originally said it hoped would be helped by the program.
So, of course, what does the government do? The initiative will now last until June 2011. The program was set to wrap up at the .
On the web site late Monday, Acting Director Ed DeMarco is quoted as saying, " FHFA has reviewed the current market situation and the state of mortgage insurance availability and has determined that the market conditions that necessitated the action taken last year have not materially changed."
According to , Fannie Mae president Michael J. Williams says of the White House instigated extension, "Thousands of families have already received much needed relief...extending HARP for another year will enable us to help even more families." Of course, what Williams neglects to say is that while it is true that "thousands of families" have gotten relief, millions more have not! The program is administered by both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, usually referred to as the "government sponsored mortgage finance companies." Truth is, both are actually more like taxpayer-owned mortgage finance companies that happen to be losing lots and lots of that taxpayer money.
This program, I should point out, is supposed to help borrowers who are, as they say, "underwater" -- whose homes are now worth less than their mortgages.
Lots of excuses have been given for why the program has failed so badly -- and,专业手镯零售,实惠的价格,超赞的品质。, make no mistake about it., it has failed. There were lender delays, computer software screw-ups and, complicating everything, the fact that many homeowners already have a second mortgage, which makes everything more complicated than it probably needs to be.
But the real issue I --and others---have said over and over and over and over and over and over again, is that any program of mortgage refinancing that relies upon lowering interest payments while leaving principal untouched is , in the long run, doomed to failure. People are out of work,手镯,实惠的价格,超赞的品质。, or worried they soon will be. Those who are working might have had their paychecks reduced as hours and overtime have been cut. Paying lower interest rates over a longer period of time is not going to solve the problem.
As I have also said before, President Obama understands this well. He, in fact, was an early backer of changing the laws to allow bankruptcy judges, in certain cases, to reduce mortgage loan principal so that distressed homeowners would be able to gain equity in their property. He backed away from that stance once in office and once the powerful banking lobby did a number apparently on both the White House and the Congress.
So, a one-year extension of a failed program? Don't count on this to fix our economy, mend our real estate market or keep people from losing their homes.
Charles Feldman is a journalist, media consultant and co-author of the book, "No Time To Think-The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle." He has written about real estate related issues for several years.