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Compensation & Capital Administrative Services (CCAS) is a firm of independent investment professionals established in 1986 and focused on providing our Plans' participants with objective and helpful information and research tools to progressively expand your knowledge base of personal finance topics. Archives of the Plans' Quarterly Participant Memos written by CCAS specifically for your Plans are linked here..

Additionally, we are constantly searching for and evaluating commercially-sponsored websites that present financial information resources in an insightful and objective manner, as free from promotional clutter and bias as possible. If you come across a website you think fits these criteria and would help your fellow CBC Plan participants, please share it with us by sending its web address to us at [email protected]. We will evaluate it and include it here if we agree.

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  • Vanguard Financial Planning Tools: An excellent assortment of Planning Tools and insights focused on retirement, college savings and investment planning issues.
  • Vanguard Target Retirement Funds: Vanguard's proprietary description of one of its families of "All-in-One" funds. These Target Retirement Funds are a set of individual funds that are broadly diversifed within themselves and that gradually become more conservative as your year of retirement approaches, reducing risk automatically. Though these funds are not readily available within the Plan's investing venues, this web page helps you understand the import of properly employing the criterion of "time horizon" in determining an appropriate strategic asset allocation across money markets, bonds and stocks.
  • Online Calculators: General information site sponsored by AARP features an abundance of online calculators for Retirement, Lifestyle, Saving and Spending, Insurance, Real Estate, and College. This direct link focuses on 401(k) account projections.
  • Money Magazine - Personal Finance 101: A Step-by-step guide to gaining control of your financial life with comprehensive and useful details on all aspects of personal finance.
  • National Association of Securities Dealers: Trade association's investor information site providing a variety of interactive tools that can help you investigate all sorts of investing issues from reviewing the legitimacy of specific investments, to analyzing the expense structures of specific mutual funds, to using relatively sophisticated financial calculators, plus many other objectively presented topics.