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Building wealth: Best moves if you're 25 to 34 - Start saving for retirement now (1) - Money Magazine. Just starting out?

Building wealth: Best moves if you're 25 to 34 - Start saving for retirement now (1) - Money Magazine

Now's the time to create a solid plan for investing and saving. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Savings goal at age 30: 0.6 x your income Biggest cash drain: Student loans and other debt Biggest challenge: Overcoming fear of investing Biggest opportunity: Lots of time for your money to compound. Diann Cattani: Confessions of a small biz con artist - Nov. 30. Diann Cattani's embezzlement started off as an innocent mistake and then quickly got out of control.

Diann Cattani: Confessions of a small biz con artist - Nov. 30

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- My first indiscretion was very accidental. I had been brought in as a project manager for a boutique human resources firm in Atlanta in the late 80s and early 90s. It was a startup, so the owners relied on me to take over the company's business functions. I automated the bookkeeping systems, contracted with all of the vendors and basically did everything that it took to set up the company's infrastructure. I never established systems with the plan to steal from them, but the fact that I implemented everything made things a lot easier. Hit by a scam - Hit by a scam (1) Kimberly Eberl, who owns Motion PR, was scammed out of $15,000.

Hit by a scam - Hit by a scam (1)

From raising capital to developing marketing and promotions strategies, starting and running a successful small business is never easy. Factor in the occasional fraud scheme, and things get especially dicey. According to the latest report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, U.S. small businesses (those with fewer than 100 employees) are disproportionately affected by scams and fraud, accounting for the greatest percentage of victim organizations and suffering the greatest median losses. Getting scammed can be a devastating -- or even fatal -- blow to a burgeoning company. The following small business owners, however, were able to survive fraud and tell the tale. AFTERSHOCK : Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown.

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