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Strategic Investing: Setting Goals & Building a Winning Portfolio
Before you can sit down and decide how to invest your money, you first need to set your long-term investment objectives. What will the money be used for? Retirement? A new home? Child’s education? Onc
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Investor vs. Debtor: Understanding the Key Difference for Financial Freedom
I recently read a guest post over at Get Rich Slowly from William over at DropDeadMoney. To summarize, William says we choose what we are: an investor or debtor. An investor is a person that invests t
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Benefits of Hiring a Financial Planner: Secure Your Financial Future
Many investors go about their investing mostly clueless as to what to do. As a result, the average investor only earns roughly 2.1% per year, which is much less than the market earns as a whole. To co
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Warren Buffett's Top Investing Strategies: 7 Lessons for Success
Warren Buffett is arguably one of the greatest investors of all time. He preaches value investing, in which he seeks out companies whose stock price is undervalued. While I may disagree with his views
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Long-Term Investing: Why Buy & Hold Often Wins
There are two rules of thought when it comes to investing: buy and hold for the long-term or trade in and out of funds based on which funds are performing well and the direction of the economy. Argume
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Return on Investment (ROI) Calculation: A Simple Guide
Have you ever wondered how to calculate return on investment? If so, you’ve come to the right place. The actual formula to calculate return on investment is simple enough that you can perform on a bas
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Baseball Home Runs & Investing: What Women Really Value
Back in 1998 when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were chasing the single season record for home runs set by Roger Maris, everyone was hyped up on home runs, so much so that a commercial came out featurin
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Retirement Planning: How to Achieve Financial Independence in Today's Market
Ah, 1989….The Simpsons debuted on television, the Berlin Wall came down, and The B-52’s “Love Shack” was a hit on the radio. Also back in 1989, a retiree could afford to retire and live off of interes
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Active vs. Passive Investing: A Comprehensive Guide
For as much as I talk about passive investing, I never wrote a post discussing the differences between active investing and passive investing and the advantages and disadvantages of both. All of that
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Model Investment Portfolios: Sample Strategies for Your Financial Goals
I get many readers emailing me asking me about how they should invest their money. Unfortunately, I cannot give investment advice on an individual basis since I don’t know the specifics of each
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Avoid Investment Mistakes: Common Pitfalls to Watch Out For
When it comes to investing, there is no formula to success. There are many different profitable investment styles, thus we cannot say “just do X, Y, Z and you’ll be a millionaire”. H
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Investing Lessons from The Price Is Right: A Surprisingly Smart Guide
I loved watching The Price Is Right growing up (my favorite games being Plinko and the game where you punch the board to reveal the card with an amount of money listed). Now whenever I get the chance
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The Urgent Case for Starting to Invest Today
I’m sure you’ve heard it before, you need to start investing for your future. You’ve probably heard it so many times that you just tune it out now. Because of this, I’m not going to tell you that you
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Investment Mistakes: Lessons Learned from Costly Decisions
I recently talked about my first investment, Intimate Brands and how I felt like the man. While I was successful with that investment, investing wasn’t always a positive experience. There were two tim
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Master Your Mind: 5 Psychological Tricks for Successful Investing
I’ve written before why you need to start investing now as well as the real way to make money in the stock market. But even with all of this excellent information, you still may find yourself making m
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Avoid These 3 Common Investing Mistakes | Wall Street Journal Insights
Investors make a ton of mistakes when it comes to investing in the stock market. I don’t blame them since there is so much conflicting information out there. I found this great article from The Wall S
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ETFs Explained: A Beginner's Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds
I’ve talked in depth about mutual funds on this blog – case in point is the mutual fund basics post a few weeks ago. But what I haven’t talked to you about are exchange traded funds or ETFs. Exchange
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Investor Personality Quiz: Discover Your Investment Style
When it comes to investing, everyone has their own goals and plans. Some may be investing for retirement, while others are using their investments for income. Whatever the case may be, each investor i
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ETFs vs. Mutual Funds: Which Investment is Right for You?
I recently received a question from a reader about ETFs and mutual funds. The reader read my mutual fund basics post along with what is an ETF post and wanted to know which one is a better investment.
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Top 3 Investments: Lessons Learned & Common Strategies
I’ve been investing for close to 17 years now (which coincidentally is about half my life!) and have learned a lot. I’ve made plenty of mistakes along the way, but have also had my fair share of succe
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Managing COVID-19 Medical Debt: 4 Strategies for ReliefThere are ways to pay your medical bills without ruining your credit or driving you dee...
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Boost Your Credit Score: How to Request a Credit Limit IncreaseThere are many strategic tactics you can take advantage of to build your credit score. Some, like paying your bills on time each month, take a while to actually register as positive momentum in that...
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Maximize Your Social Security Benefits: A Comprehensive Guide
Social Security provides a secure, fixed income to retirees and others, helping many to afford their golden years. Given the fact that you get reliable money for the rest of your life, many people wa...
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ATM Safety: Recognizing Hidden Risks and Avoiding ScamsImage Credit: @Haru1/Twenty20 It seems less and less common to actually have cash on hand when you need it. That's thanks to the ubiquity of the automated teller machine, which can spit out a...