Articles that mention "investing"
Does Investment Portfolio Diversification Still Work?
A common lesson from a children’s story book has become one of the guiding principles for investing: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” But lately, I’ve come across a few articles where people are questioning the wisdom of diversification. Today, we are going to ask the question – could you make more [...]
Best CD Rates (Certificate of Deposit Rates), March 2010
The following is a list of the nationally available highest yields 12-month CD rates. In general, certificates of deposit (CDs) are great investments because your principal is protected by FDIC insurance and your interest rates are guaranteed. Moreover, you can use CD Ladder to make your CD savings more flexible and effective. You can open [...]
Best Online High Interest Savings Account Rates, March 2010
The following is a list of top online banks that offers high yield savings account, high interest savings account, or high yield money market account. All of these accounts are FDIC insured up to $250,000. Your principal is protected and you’re guarantee a positive nominal return on investment. For March 2010, the average interest rate [...]
Different Paths You Can Take Toward Financial Independence
Financial independence is a term typically used to describe a state where you have sufficient assets to live a certain lifestyle indefinitely without having to work or be employed. Whether your income is derived from interest on savings, investment income, real estate income or something else, it really doesn’t matter. The key is that you’re [...]
The One Reason Why You Need A Risk Management Plan
Seems these days everyone has an opinion on how to make money in the stock market. Only now it’s not just the stock market, there is options, foreign exchange, commodities and bonds. And it’s no longer just investing or trading. There’s swing trading, position trading, income investing and dividend investing. Yet I’ve barely scratched the [...]
Five Things That Are Acceptable To Spend Money On
We in the personal finance blogosphere love to fill the internet with ideas on how to save money and discuss everything under the sun that you should not spend money on. Well, today, I’d like to discuss a few things that I believe are acceptable purchases.
How to Find College Financial Aid
If you have kids, you probably know that only health care cost increases can compete with the inflation seen by education costs. This means that you are probably going to need to do what you can to help your child get the college financial aid that he or she needs. Even if you have been [...]
5 Essential Investment Tasks To Complete This Month
Investing works best if you set it and forget it. However, at least once a year every investor should set aside some time to review their investment activities from the previous year. February is a great time to do this investment review because if you wait too long you’ll find yourself in the thick of [...]
18 Business Tools and Tips for the Recent Grad
There’s no shame in admitting it: It’s possible to make it through college and into the real world without having the first idea about investing, money management, or anything that deals even remotely with finances. But thanks to the growing number of Web sites and online tools devoted to fiscal responsibility, it’s easier than ever [...]
An Introduction to Mutual Fund Fees
A mutual fund represents money contributed by multiple investors. That money is managed by an individual, or more likely, a whole slew of individuals. Not surprisingly, those folks who help manage and oversee your money do not do it on a volunteer basis. They get paid. Do you want to guess who pays them? You [...]