Upcoming Topics for Financial Outlook

March 2008:

• Securing Your Financial Life
• Surviving Spouses and IRAs
• Narrowing the Wage Gap
• Give Your Kids a Good Financial Start
• The Basics of Dollar Cost Averaging (substitute feature article)

February 2008:

• How Long Will You Have to Work?
• Encourage Your Child to Participate
• Dealing with Stock Price Declines
• Draw Down Retirement Funds Carefully (substitute feature article)

January 2008:

• Will Low Inflation Continue?
• A Look at Long-Term Interest Rates
• Working toward Your Financial Goals
• Your Retirement Planning Assumptions
• What Is More Important? (substitute feature article)

December 2007:

• Squeezed by Competing Needs
• The Basics of Preferred Stock
• Retaining Financial Information
• Why Are You Buying a Home?
• Bonds and Maturity Dates (substitute feature article)

November 2007:

• Evaluating Stock Investments
• Assessing Stock Returns
• Is Economic Inequality Increasing?
• Undoing a Roth Conversion
• Clean Up Your Portfolio (substitute feature article)

October 2007:

• Gauging an Investment's Risk
• What Are Zero-Coupon Bonds?
• Don't Underestimate the Value of Social Security Benefits
• The Basics of Coverdell ESAs
• Selling Your Home at a Loss (substitute feature article)

September 2007:

• Your Stage of Life and Your Bond Strategies
• Muni Bond Tips
• What Are Bond Swaps?
• What Is Monte Carlo Analysis?
• Your Parents and Their Estate Plans (substitute feature article)

August 2007:

• Plan for 2010 Roth Conversions
• Take Another Look at Section 529 Plans
• Rollovers for Nonspouse Beneficiaries Are Complicated
• Why Aren't 401(k) Balances Larger?
• Taking Required Minimum Distributions (substitute feature article)

July 2007:

• Married Couples and Their Estate Plans
• Tax-Efficient Investing Strategies
• First, Protect Your Family's Security
• Common Investor Mistakes
• Know When You Want to Exit (substitute feature article)

June 2007:

• An Investment Plan for College Costs
• Organize Your Estate for Heirs
• Make Conservative Assumptions
• Will Your Child Finish College in Four Years?
• Review Your Beneficiaries Periodically (substitute feature article)

May 2007:

• Moving Gently into Retirement
• Using Average Returns
• IRAs and Charitable Contributions
• Make Sure Your Children Have a Guardian (substitute feature article)

April 2007:

• Practical Implications of Investment Theory
• How Much Can You Withdraw?
• Setting Your Goals
• Have You Rebalanced?
• Finding Money to Save (substitute feature article)

March 2007:

• Focus on Investing Fundamentals
• What Is the S&P 500?
• Before Purchasing That Investment
• Investing Tendencies (substitute feature article)

February 2007:

• Get the Basics Right
• Reviewing Annual Reports
• Loan Carefully
• Bond Investing Tips
• Check All Factors before Switching Jobs (substitute feature article)

January 2007:

• Retirement Planning throughout Your Life
• Teaching Important Financial Lessons
• How Secure Is Your Financial Identity?
• Keep an Eye on Inflation (substitute feature article)

December 2006:

• Make Your Resolutions Work
• Leave Your 401(k) Funds Alone
• Know Your Investor Profile
• The Dangers of Delaying Saving
• Why Aren't We Saving More? (substitute feature article)

November 2006:

• Should You Favor Growth or Value Investing?
• Countdown to Retirement
• Update These Documents
• What Are ADRs?
• Why Split a Stock? (substitute feature article)

October 2006:

• Utilizing Losses in Your Portfolio
• When Should You Sell?
• How Much Will Social Security Replace?
• Resolving Financial Issues before Marriage
• What Are Convertible Bonds? (substitute feature article)

September 2006:

• Why Consider International Investing?
• Reviewing Your Portfolio's Performance
• Reversion to the Mean
• The Effects of an Aging Population
• What Are the Benefits of Dollar Cost Averaging? (substitute feature article)

August 2006:

• Back to Basics with Bonds
• Why Do Bond Prices Fluctuate?
• Taming Your Spending
• Helping Parents with Their Finances
• The Cost of Raising a Child (substitute feature article)

July 2006:

• Checking Your Personal Financial Ratios
• Assessing Your Risk Tolerance
• Sticking with Your Strategy
• Using a Budget to Control Spending
• The Fed Funds Rate vs. the Discount Rate (substitute feature article)

June 2006:

• Why Is Asset Allocation Important?
• Estate Planning for Retirement Accounts
• Using Bond Ladders to Manage Risk
• Financial Tips for Your Children
• Organizing Your Records for an Emergency (substitute feature article)

May 2006:

• Don't Make These Investment Mistakes
• Keep Your Expectations in Line
• Electing Early Social Security Benefits
• What Are Roth 401(k)s?
• Holding vs. Selling an Investment (substitute feature article)

April 2006:

• Are Federal Deficits a Concern?
• Deciding Where to Hold Investments
• Distributing Assets to Adult Children
• The Invest vs. Pay Off Debt Decision
• Debt Free in 2006 (substitute feature article)

March 2006:

• A Changing Estate Plan
• A Look at P/E Ratios
• What Will You Do in Retirement?
• How Useful Are Financial Rules of Thumb?
• Do You Really Need an Estate Plan? (substitute feature article)

February 2006:

• Is Saving 10% Enough?
• Are Muni Bonds Appropriate for You?
• The Basics of Credit Scores
• Financial Decisions for Your Children (substitute feature article)

January 2006:

• Financial Strategies for Major Life Events
• Tips for This Housing Market
• Time to Review Your Estate Plan
• Investing Tips (substitute feature article)

December 2005:

• Coming to Terms with the Stock Market
• Will Your 401(k) Plan Be Enough?
• Monitoring Your Stocks
• Start the New Year Out Right
• How Affordable Is Housing? (substitute feature article)

November 2005:

• Answer These Questions Honestly
• Estate Planning for Combined Families
• The Basics of Capitalization
• A Return to Dividends?
• Your Retirement vs. Your Child's College Education (substitute feature article)

October 2005:

• Make Rebalancing a Habit
• Assessing a Bond's Credit Risk
• Selling Your Home
• Consider Splitting Your IRA
• The Basics of TIPS (substitute feature article)

September 2005:

• Bond Strategies for Various Financial Goals
• Consider a Conversion
• Coping with a Returning Child
• Keeping Our Emotions in Check
• What Does Yield Mean? (substitute feature article)

August 2005:

• Boosting Your 401(k) Plan's Returns
• Managing Your Investments
• Handling the Family's Finances
• Are Defined-Benefit Pension Plans Extinct?
• Investing in Your Company's Stock (substitute feature article)

July 2005:

• Taxes and Your Investments
• Keep an Eye on the Economy
• Make Investing Automatic
• Avoid These IRA Mistakes
• Consider the Maturity Date (substitute feature article)

June 2005:

• Tips to Consider for Your Estate Plan
• Bond Investing Misconceptions
• Watch for Slowing Growth
• Thinking Through a QTIP Trust
• Reviewing Your Social Security Statement (substitute feature article)

May 2005:

• Dealing with College Costs
• Withdrawing College Funds
• Don't Make These Financial Mistakes
• Considering Corporate Bonds
• Budgeting and Your College Student (substitute feature article)

April 2005:

• Deciding on a Wtihdrawal Rate
• Getting Organized for Heirs
• Leaving IRAs to Heirs
• Avoid These Distribution Mistakes
• Cutting Expenses after Retirement (substitute feature article)

March 2005:

• The Path to Your Financial Goals
• Managing Bond Risks
• Diversifying All Your Assets
• Get Spending under Control
• Don't Forget about Inflation (substitute feature article)

February 2005:

• How Secure Is Social Security?
• What's So Special about a Roth IRA?
• Signs It's Time to Sell a Stock
• Develop a Systematic Approach
• Stretching Your Salary (substitute feature article)

January 2005:

• Using Diversification to Control Volatility
• Get in the Savings Habit
• A Checklist for Bond Investors
• Should You Review Your Estate Plan?
• What Happened to Your Canceled Checks? (substitute feature article)