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 One of the most disappointing, and potentially devastating, occurrences in your financial life is likely to be the realization, too late, that your investment has been in the bubble. One day you are flying high, sure your fortune is made, and the next day you are crushed — and possibly looking at large losses. While it may be a boring ... If you’ve read the reader mailbags for a while, you’ve noticed that I often get messages from people who have worked their way into a good financial place and now have some money to invest, often for the first time in their life. They look around, watch CNBC, read investment advice online and in books, and still aren’t sure ...  Investments gone wrong and excessive fees are just some.
“You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.” - W.H. Auden, Horae Canonicae I’m a 30 yr old professional and have saved ... About once a day, I hear from someone who lists off a bunch of their investments, says that they don’t think their financial advisor is doing a good job with their money, and asks me what they should do. My first advice to them is usually to dump their advisor and handle their investing themselves. It’s actually incredibly easy to ... As a CPA, I’ve done several tax returns over the years. One thing I got to see when calculating capital gains and losses was what type of investments people were into. I saw a lot of portfolios made up of 5 to 10 single stocks. It shocked me that so many people were putting a great deal of their money ...  When Do You Plan To Retire? That was the question our financial advisor asked the very first time we met together. Since my wife and I were both in our early 20’s, we said 50. We figured 50 is really old and if we waited much longer we would probably need to do all of our traveling in wheel chairs. ... Since exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were launched more than a decade ago, the trend in investing has been towards low-cost investing. People are shunning investments which charge an arm and a leg to do something many people feel they could do more easily and cost-effectively. This is the result of increased competition in the investment world or what I like to ...  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 money investing if you did ... 
For many people, the ability to invest is a pie in the sky dream that will never be achieved, due to the fact that they may not believe they have “enough” money to invest. This book promises to allay those fears and help readers get a better view on personal finance, and working with what you have right now to ... |
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