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Examples
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Many Americans with 401 (k) accounts lost one-third to one-half of their "nest-egg" when the equity markets collapsed in 2008 and 2009.
Lee A. Saunders: America's Failed 401(k) Experiment Lee A. Saunders 2010
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Looks like we'll have plenty to subsidize the early pensions until those other sources of income start flowing, plus we'll have a good nest-egg at the time the other sources of income start flowing.
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Looks like we'll have plenty to subsidize the early pensions until those other sources of income start flowing, plus we'll have a good nest-egg at the time the other sources of income start flowing.
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Last year, a research paper in the Journal of Financial Planning predicted that a safe nest-egg withdrawal rate for retirements begun in 2010 is 1.8%.
Will Rules Kill Appeal of Money-Market Funds? Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo 2012
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If you've saved for years and now your nest-egg produces virtually no income because interest rates are near zero, it's a depression.
Peter G. Miller: Do We Have a Depression in America? Peter G. Miller 2011
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Looks like we'll have plenty to subsidize the early pensions until those other sources of income start flowing, plus we'll have a good nest-egg at the time the other sources of income start flowing.
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The "good news" for many parents is that they have up to 18 years to build a nest-egg.
Tuition fees: how best to start saving early for your child's degree Jill Papworth 2010
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Basically, with no tricks and no risks, you make your credit card and finance company bills vanish, while growing a nest-egg you can truly predict and count on.
Pamela Yellen: Creating Your Own Consumer Credit "Magic" -- Without Any Tricks Pamela Yellen 2011
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And if our toil has not resulted in great blessing -- our investments went south, we lost our job and nest-egg, our cellars are empty, and we face the approaching winter with mounting debt and bills, living off credit from month to month, forlorn and fearful for how we will survive -- then, as we enter the sukkah, we find rest for our troubled soul.
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein: Sukkot Evens The Playing Field For The Rich And Poor Rabbi Yonah Bookstein 2011
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If you've saved for years and now your nest-egg produces virtually no income because interest rates are near zero, it's a depression.
Peter G. Miller: Do We Have a Depression in America? Peter G. Miller 2011
Colinc commented on the word nest-egg
Nestegg, nest-egg and nest egg have meanings:
as wealth set aside for the future; or
something used to attract interest
July 16, 2009