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5 Ways to Simplify Your Money This Summer

Updated on: July 5, 2011 / 9:08 AM EDT / MoneyWatch

When I worked with clients, I marveled at how difficult it was to get them to focus on their money during the summer months. Instead of fighting the inevitable "summer brain freeze," I talked to CBS stations about 5 Ways to Simplify Your Money this summer.

Increase Your Savings
Diversify with a Summer Short-cut: 110-your age
Apply Auto-re-balancing to your accounts
Use Target date funds
Do Nothing!

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Jill Schlesinger

Jill Schlesinger, CFP® is the Emmy-nominated business analyst for CBS News. She covers the economy, markets, investing and anything else with a dollar sign on TV, radio (including her nationally syndicated radio show), the web and her blog, "Jill on Money." Prior to her second career at CBS, Jill spent 14 years as the co-owner and chief investment officer for an independent investment advisory firm. She began her career as a self-employed options trader on the Commodities Exchange of New York, following her graduation from Brown University.

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