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IRAs, Life Insurance and Pizza

11-19-2020 - IRAs, Life Insurance and Pizza By Andy Ives, CFP®, AIF® IRA Analyst Follow Us on Twitter:  Many years ago, my wife and I went to lunch at a pizza joint in a strip mall. The friendly gray-haired host in sensible shoes (whom I pegged for mid-to-late 60s), tucked two menus under her arm, grabbed a couple sets of s...

Since 1984, PNC Wealth Management ("PNC") has tracked the cost of the goods and services given as gifts in the classic "Twelve Days of Christmas" holiday song. For 2018, many prices were unchanged. The Six Geese-A-Laying had the largest percentage price increase (+8.3%) while Five Gold Rings had the only price decrease (-9.1%). The overall 2018 cost was $170,609 for the gifts detailed in the verses of the song, including every repetition, which is an overall 0.5% increase from 2017. The increase was less than the U.S. Consumer Price Index year-over-year increase, which stood at 2.5% through October 2018.

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