Are You Investing or Gambling? Here Are the Warning Signs

Are you trusting brokerage firms to build your portfolio, allowing others to decide which investments are right for you? Before signing with a financial planner, wealth manager or financial advisor, here is some information that can help you avoid one of the most deadly investment traps…gambling with your nest egg. Financial planners are often selling [...]

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Investments and Prophecy: The Two are Alike

The recent end time prophecy, which centered around the prediction that the world would come to an end on May 21, 2011, received massive publicity and many lives were adversely affected. As we know, the prophecy didn’t come to pass. But there is something we can learn about financial planning and investment strategies based on [...]

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Investment Strategies: Minimizing Losses and Calculating Risk

In an ideal world of investment strategies, we all basically want to achieve the same goal. We want to minimize our losses while enjoying the benefits of high payoffs. Looking at these two, they seem to be pitted at opposite ends of the pendulum, so what’s the answer? Is it possible to minimize our potential [...]

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Bullet Points for Success…Investing, Finances, Business & Life

Avoiding Retirement Pitfalls: 4 Steps to Sound Financial Planning Many investors, look toward retirement with rose colored glasses and not much more. They tell themselves they are doing the best they can, but is this really enough? In The 6 Pitfalls of Retirement Investing, we count the “lack of planning” as the number two pitfall [...]

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