TOP 100 INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVISERS CHRISTOPHER HOUSEN / HOUSEN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. BARRON'S AUGUST 2008

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College Funding
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HOT TOPIC: Social Security and Medicare in Crosshairs
An entitlement crisis has been looming on the horizon for several years. Unfortunately, according to the latest reports from the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, a spike in unemployment has helped to hasten the arrival of these programs’ insolvency.

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Investors are on track to invest 11 times more money in bond funds in 2009 than they will invest in stock funds. This is not surprising, considering the market volatility in 2008, but are these investors operating on false assumptions about the capabilities of bond funds?

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