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Nest Egg
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Nest Egg
A reserve of money set aside, especially for a specific purpose. Generally speaking, a nest egg refers to savings for a major expense, such as retirement. However, it may also refer to smaller expenses that nonetheless require savings. Examples of the latter include nest eggs for vacations or down payments for a house.


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Apparently soaring house prices and later marriages are leading to millions of 20- and 30-somethings still living at home and experts are warning that this is eroding parents' nest eggs.
Set up in the Virgin Islands just before the last Angolan peace accord collapsed in 1998, the company is allegedly being used for oil-for-arms swaps and to transfer money out of Angola to be used as future nest eggs.
A high Nest Egg Score indicates that households are having more success in building their nest eggs or that economic conditions are favorable for saving and investing.
 
 
 
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