The good news is Americans are living longer. But the worry for many retirees is that they’ll outlive their savings.

The average life expectancy for men in the U.S. now reaches 83 years old — and women are living to age 86. Living 20 years or more beyond the traditional retirement age may call for some non-traditional investment moves. Read full Article (Click Here)…

Written By: Sharon Epperson of  www.cnbc.com

Article written by: Liz Skinner

Structured notes and other derivatives products have been marketed by Wall Street as safe and secure investments. Of course, there’s safe and then there’s safe. Retail investors of all stripes have lost at least $113 billion by purchasing these purportedly safe instruments, according to a new study conducted by the nonpartisan policy center Demos and The Nation Institute, a media think tank. Read More Here…

Read Wall Street Journal Article here…

“We’ve long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good” .  Warren Buffet

 The following links will take you to three recent articles (2 from the Wall Street Journal and 1 from the New York Times) warning against putting too much value in all the stock market forecasts that are made at this time of year.  As the Nobel Prize winning economist Paul A. Samuelson said “The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions”.

 Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wall Street’s Top Stocks for 2011

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808704576062033926741952.html?mod=WSJ_PersonalFinance_PF14

 Making Sense of Market Forecasts

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703675904576064320900295678.html?mod=WSJ_PersonalFinance_PF2

 Market Predictions, With Many Grains of Salt

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/your-money/09stra.html?ref=your-money