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A 26-year-old marketing analyst is making most of the right money moves, but there's always room to improve. Here's how one adviser sizes up the opportunities.
By MSN Money staff
It's New Year's resolution time. Along with exercising, lowering your cholesterol or taking up the banjo, you may have resolved -- along with many others -- to get into better financial shape.
But who has the time to figure out how to become a better money manager?
That's what Chrystal Smith, a 26-year-old analyst for a marketing company in Washington, D.C., is asking herself this year. Read the whole story.
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