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    How resolving the financial crisis has stored up problems in retirement saving

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    Rising yields reignite debate around the end of the bond bull market

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    The great debate over passive investing

    A few large fund managers have a dominant position over the US stock market

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    Too soon to gauge the implications of the crisis

    Remains hard to believe the market verdict as US diverges from rest of the world

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    US citizens left behind 10 years after crisis

    Stock prices have tripled and unemployment is rock bottom, but so are savings

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    Fed’s rate environment is wrapped up in the path of domestic wage inflation

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