Category: Investing
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Book Review: The Vigilant Investor
I received a free copy of the book, The Vigilant Investor: A Former SEC Enforcer Reveals How to Fraud-Proof Your Investments to review. With all the financial fraud in the news the past few years it seemed like this book could be a good resource. The author,Pat Huddleston, is a former SEC enforcer and founder…
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Book Review – The Monopoly Method
I received a free copy of The Monopoly Method: An Insider’s Guide to Navigating Wall Street and Becoming a Better Investor: Make Decisions Faster, Make Them More Profitable, and Make Them with Less Risk (Volume 1) for review. The monopoly mentioned in the title has nothing to do with the board game. (joke) It refers…
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Lending Club $100 and up IRA Bonus
Lending Club is offering a cash bonus of up to 3% to IRA investors. IRA investors may be eligible to receive a 1% cash bonus for a transfer, rollover or contribution of $10,000 or a 2% cash bonus for a transfer, rollover or contribution of $50,000 or a 3% cash bonus for a transfer, rollover…
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How to Know When to Switch Financial Advisors
With the recent ups and downs in the stock market, many people have taken a good hard look not only at their investments, but also at their investment advisors. Back in the bull market 1990’s, it was hard not to make money in just about any investment available. Now, however, it takes a competent advisor…
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5 Questions You Should Ask About Target Date Retirement Funds
A Target Date Retirement Fund seems like an easy way to save for your retirement. You just invest your money in the fund that matches your planned retirement date and you are all set. Of course, investing for retirement is not that easy. There are several questions you should ask when deciding to use a…
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Dividend Investing for Retirement
Dividend stocks make up a major portion of my retirement portfolio. If you do not already have dividend-paying stocks in your retirement portfolio you should strongly consider adding them. By buying dividend-paying stocks and reinvesting the dividends you could have a nice stream of income when you retire. Dividend-paying stocks have been out of favor…
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Should I Sell Everything?
A CNN Money reader recently wrote into Walter Updegrave and asked whether she should sell all her stocks and move into safe investments. After the 4.5%+ drop in the market today after Geitner’s remarks, she probably would’ve done well to follow her instincts and not Updegrave’s advice! While that would’ve been great in the short…
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Warren Buffett’s Metric Says BUY!
Famed investor Warren Buffett has a metric that says the best time to buy stocks is when the total market value of U.S. stocks is 70-80% of the output of the U.S. economy, the gross national product. Stock quotes are the source of this information. Well, that’s where stocks were in late January, when the…
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5 New Retirement Investing Rules
Hmmm… I guess it’s about time that someone wrote about “new” rules to investing, so why not Katy Marquardt of U.S. News & World Report? In citing the classic risks retirees face, Marquardt talked to some experts and came up with five new rules for retirement. Separate investments into different time horizons Rather than treat…