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The Surprising Key To Successful Long Term Investing
Here's an investing riddle: two investors start investing with the same portfolio and the same time horizon of twenty years. One investor reads market news constantly and checks their accounts every week. The other investor falls asleep for twenty...
Market Fluctuations: The Best Reaction Might Be No Action
The best tools for success in investing are: a sound strategy that fits your financial situation and your long-term goals; a diversified portfolio of global equities, fixed income, and commodities; the patience and discipline to stick to your...
Investing Over Time: Your Strongest Asset
Strategic investing means taking on an appropriate amount of smart risk within a well-diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, and commodities. A wise investor takes an appropriate amount of smart risk as part of a carefully considered investment...
Strategic Investing, Despite the Hype
Often, investors allow emotion to overwhelm logic, which drives irrational investing behavior. Certain investments may rapidly climb higher and higher, with a momentum that is fueled by the very hype it generates. Often, however, those investors...
Investing for Long-term Growth
Too many investors allow their emotions to overwhelm their logic, driving irrational investing behavior. Certain investments may rapidly climb up and up, a momentum that is all the more fueled by the hype it generates. Hype can become a fad can...
Investing for Retirement – Where to Begin
I investing for retirement with my 401(k), but I want to do more. What else can I do to make sure my assets are best positioned to work for me? Knowing that you want to get the most from your money is an excellent starting point. Here are next...
First Steps
The vast majority of us aren't taught what do with our money after we make it--besides spend it, of course! To complicate matters, the media bombards us with high-level financial information as if we're somehow supposed to know what it all means...
Take Charge of Your Financial Life
In today's perpetually plugged-in world, the constant whirlwind of information can easily be overwhelming. This principle certainly holds true in the world of investing and finance: if you're not well versed, it can seem like everyone in the...
Investing 101: The Investment Policy Statement
As an investor, you need to be sure that you and your financial advisor are on the same page about your investment strategy, how your portfolio is allocated, and why. The Investment Policy Statement is a key tool that will help you address these...
Fiduciary Or Broker? Know Your Information Source
When it comes to finance, how do you avoid information overload? When sifting through the wealth of information and opinions out there, always consider the source. Do they have your best interests at heart? Or do they answer to their own best...
Investing strategy: Are you a stock or a bond?
Your job affects your financial life beyond serving as the source of your paycheck. It affects how your investing strategy, both in the short and the long term. Most people fail to take into account the nature of their work when looking at their...