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<title>Active vs Passive - An Old Debate Continues</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Morningstar, the creator of the star system and style boxes for mutual funds, is once again beating the indexing drum. If you haven't been keeping up with this old debate, it's pretty simple. There...<br/>
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<dc:creator>Marcel Dupré</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:18:14 -0500</pubDate>

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<content:encoded><![CDATA[With the holiday season quickly approaching many shoppers will soon be excitedly running up credit card debt or spending most of what they earn on gifts and other things. Spending money can give a...<br/>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:26:12 -0500</pubDate>

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<content:encoded><![CDATA[This morning at my Rotary meeting Sunrise Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Facebook we heard from Ye-Sho Chen PhD on doing business with China as an entrepreneur. If you want Dr. Chen’s PowerPoint with...<br/>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:00:47 -0500</pubDate>

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<content:encoded><![CDATA[You will soon be bombarded with the name “Roth” in the media because of some changes coming next year. Beginning in 2010, two important changes are scheduled to take effect for converting to a Roth....<br/>
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<category>Invesment Management/Estate Planning/Taxes</category>

<dc:creator>Marcel Dupré</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:52:07 -0500</pubDate>

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<title>Retirement Savings &amp;ndash; Time To Punt Or Go For It?</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is a chart of one of our Taxable Moderately Aggressive Portfolios (approximately 80% stock funds and 20% bond funds) showing it’s back above 0% growth for the time period noted (see disclosures...<br/>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:15:51 -0500</pubDate>

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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 23:43:16 -0500</pubDate>

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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:08:15 -0500</pubDate>

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<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you are trying to take advantage of the down markets and you want to put away some money for your future, check out the Roth accounts. A Roth account can come in different forms as a Roth IRA, a...<br/>
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<category>Investment Management</category>

<dc:creator>Marcel Dupré</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:41:14 -0500</pubDate>

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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The financial house we built post World War II was pretty solid. It had a gold standard foundation with FDIC storm shutters. The plumbing and electrical by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department...<br/>
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<dc:creator>Marcel Dupré</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:00:00 -0600</pubDate>

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