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Even those with well-developed investment plans can see those plans fail for reasons that have nothing to do with investments. A plan could fail because of the premature death of the breadwinner and ...

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Even people who have well-developed investment plans have seen these fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the investments themselves. For instance, someone’s plans could fall through because ...