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March 23, 2009
By Dieter Thurow
North Bay Business Journal

Retirement planning is complex enough without burdening ourselves with the macro-economic and political negativity that surrounds us. When financial advisers accompany their clients in openly capitulating to the external stresses so dominant in the media, we know that a better vision of the future is desperately needed.

Since I won’t accept the undifferentiated negativity, I would like to give my readers a brief but positive perspective of the future and offer a fresh, fundamentally different view of retirement portfolio design.

To quote the author Michael Lewis, “How many times does the end of the world as we know it need to arrive before we realize that it’s not the end of the world as we know it?”

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