Sure the concept is brilliant yet it is still to be determined if the pre-planned mix of stocks vs. bonds actually correlates with the proper investment thesis as the participant gets older.

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Providing a good social and economic mix has also become a pre-occupation in Bristol, where there are many more large council estates - so called "ghettos"of disadvantage - than in Hanover.

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In his recent Keir Hardie lecture (named after Labour's first leader) David Miliband evoked his party's pre-war tradition of mutual guilds and moral seriousness, rather than the mix of Fabian statism and cultural relativism that has prevailed since.

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The iShares FTSE China (FXI) exchange trade fund was down 1.25% in the pre-market minutes on Monday and opened 2.07% lower thanks to a mix of U.S. and European news.

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