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10 Tips To Manage Your Personal 401k

04.21.2010 by Jason Price 6 comments
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The 401k is a common investing tool with many companies offering this option for retirement investing. It’s often managed by employees themselves. But most of the time employees are susceptible to making a wide range of mistakes that can impact the growth of their assets. But, follow these 10 simple rules to managing your personal 401k and you’ll do just fine…

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Index Funds, Mutual Funds, & ETFs Defined

04.16.2010 by Craig Ford 6 comments
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Sometimes people can be speaking English, but it has absolutely no meaning to us. Unfortunately, the same is often true for some people when personal finance writers use ‘elite’ language. They talk about ETFs, Mutual Funds, and Index Funds. Unfortunately, those words don’t always mean something to everyone…

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Getting Started Investing – FPU Review #9

04.15.2010 by Linda 4 comments

Don’t invest in anything you don’t understand. What a great idea! He’s saying that you shouldn’t just listen to what someone tells you to do and do it. You should be involved in what’s going on. If you can’t explain it, then don’t buy it. This can be hard for someone who has no interest, but remember…

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How To Overcome Fear When Investing

04.11.2010 by Guest 0 comments

t is often said that the stock market is driven by two simple human emotions: fear and greed. Most of us understand the danger of allowing greed to drive our investment decisions, but fear often plays a much more subtle, underlying role in hijacking our investment portfolios…

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Can You Afford Retirement?

04.08.2010 by Jason Topp 10 comments

Have you ever noticed how many sites and magazines talk about how you’re going to need outrageous amounts of money to retire in the lifestyle you want? Saving millions of dollars when some of us are barely getting by seems like a goal that will never be reached. So what do we make of all this talk that you need at least $3,000,000 to retire? Can you really afford retirement if that’s the case?

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How to Assess Your Investment Risk

03.13.2010 by Jason Topp 5 comments

Doesn’t it seem like folks love to take risks when markets are booming, but absolutely hate it when markets stink? A question I often get is, “What kind of investment will give me good returns without the risk of losing my money!?” Well, when you find something like that let me know! So let’s take a look at three main components in deterimining your risk tolerance and let’s help you avoid sleepless nights and create a better investment strategy for your goals.

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Secretary Dies And Leaves $7 Million

03.08.2010 by Bob 12 comments
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A woman named Grace Groner recently passed away at age 100 and she willed her estate to Lake Forest College – which ended up being $7 million dollars. She worked for Abbott Labs for 43 years and wasn’t the president of the company as one might expect from her estate, but rather the president’s secretary. According to the article…

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Stock Market Basics For New Investors

02.26.2010 by Craig Ford 7 comments

The stock market consists of over 7500 single stocks. People who wish to own part of a company (in order to share in it growth) can buy publicly traded stock. A stock represents a partial ownership in a company. The most well known place where such stock exchange happens is the New York Stock Exchange. When the stock market is open, people can buy and sell their stocks (partial company ownership). Of course, the goal of every investor is to buy a stock when it is low and sell it when it is high…

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When Can You Withdraw From Your Traditional IRA?

02.15.2010 by Jason Topp 25 comments

For some reason I get this question a lot in my day job, so I thought I’d provide a little clarification on some of the rules regarding withdrawals from Individual Retirement Arrangements, or IRAs.

IRAs were designed to provide an opportunity for folks to save for retirement on a pre-tax, tax-deferred basis. In other words, the money grows without having to pay any taxes on the gains.

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20 free stock trades from Zecco

08.26.2009 by Bob 2 comments

Zecco’s 20 free trades promotion… So, they currently have a deal going where you can get 20 free stock trades if you sign up as a new customer. I signed up with them about a year ago…

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