The minimum investment to buy into a fund is typically small and it's easy to set up automatic contributions and to split the money among several types of funds.

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This also means that authorized users are easy to cut off after a split.

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Kraft Foods, the maker of everything from Easy Mac to Oreo cookies, plans to split up into two businesses Thursday, and based on the current landscape in the global economy one may be much more attractive than the other.

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