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1.
Which type of retirement account would you set up and manage on your own?
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Individual retirement account. IRAs are accounts for individuals and are typically not related to one's job.
2.
Retirees will always need less money to live on than working people.
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False. Health problems and lifestyle changes may increase a person's income needs in retirement.
3.
Social Security benefits are based on the best 10 years of your lifetime earnings.
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False. Social Security retirement benefits are based upon your lifetime earnings recorded with the Social Security Administration.
4.
When prices of goods and services rise over time and eat into your money's purchasing power, that is called _______ risk.
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Inflation. Inflation risk is the risk that rising prices will make it harder to buy the things you need.
5.
Long time horizons generally enable us to assume _______ short-term ones.
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More risk than. Time reduces risk.