Reuters Money: Hot 2014 investing tip: Don't chase 2013

	Click to View in Browser 12/25/2013 Hot 2014 investing tip: Don't chase 2013 CHICAGO (Reuters) - This year, the stock market has been glowing as brightly as the seasonal lights that now bedeck holiday streetscapes. More men get alimony from their ex-wives (Reuters) - If Hugh McSharry's marriage had come to an end a generation ago, he might have felt uncomfortable accepting alimony. U.S. shops use prices, pick-ups to snare holiday stragglers WEST NYACK, NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retailers are trying new ways to win over Christmas procrastinators. U.S.-based bond funds have $8.1 billion outflow in latest week: ICI NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors in U.S.-based mutual funds pulled $8.1 billion out of bond funds in the week ended December 18 on fears that a pullback in the Federal Reserve's bond-buying would hurt bond prices, data from the Investment Company Institute showed on Tuesday. The trouble with forward guidance: James Saft (Reuters) - Keeping your word is hard, and people simply hate it when you don't, something that central bankers enamored of the vogue for "forward guidance" may soon learn. Three ways to fix financial aid form flaws (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) Hedge funds lose out to equities, again LONDON (Reuters) - For hedge funds that made money this year there was only one strategy that really mattered - latching onto the stockmarket rally. Investors push companies to flex M&A muscle ... carefully LONDON (Reuters) - Investors have received billions of euros from European companies so cautious about the economic outlook they could find nothing better to do with spare cash, but many now want boards to snap up rivals instead - and are rewarding them when they do. What to expect if your kid is flying solo (Reuters) - When Tim Leffel was looking for the best way to get his 12-year-old daughter, Alina, from Tampa to her grandmother's home in Virginia earlier this year, he was astounded by the fees airlines were charging to put an unaccompanied minor on board. Grand travel in retirement doesn't come cheap NEW YORK (Reuters) - When it comes to dreaming about retirement, travel is often at the top of the agenda. And by this, people don't just mean a trip or two over what could be a span of 30 or more years. Related Video Bette Midler: Cleaning and greening New York Facial recognition brings new look to shopping Business News SoftBank in talks to acquire T-Mobile, discussing funding: sources Exclusive: Target hackers stole encrypted bank PINs - source The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today   A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today   » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend