It’s time to take a fresh look at your plan. Let’s start by taking a look at 5 common mistakes to avoid.
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One of the real problems with teaching good money habits to our kids — or to adults, for the matter — is that they are decidedly oriented toward short-term rewards, while personal financial success often entails making short-term sacrifices for long-term gains.
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You will likely feel tracking error regret when your customized investment portfolio does not perform as well as popular market benchmarks like the S&P 500 Index.
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Typically, most people who are looking to save for college first turn to a state-managed 529 plan, and given their many benefits, it is easy to see why.
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When the market falls, dollar-cost averaging gives you the opportunity to buy more shares at bargain-basement prices, thereby reducing both your cost basis and the extent of your losses.
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Our collective fears have suddenly manifested themselves with a quick spike in interest rates. The yield on 10-year Treasury notes has increased by more than one hundred basis points (1.00%) in just the past two months.
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Sticking with bonds is easy when declining interest rates make them abnormally profitable investments at a time when stocks get whipsawed by continual boom-and-bust cycles.
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The SEP-IRA and the solo 401(k) are all very similar to the traditional IRA – although solo 401(k)s now come with a Roth option as well – but they have much higher contribution limits.
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In the market, if you have taken the time to carefully construct a globally diversified balanced portfolio, you are already well-positioned to reap appropriate benefits from the current market surge …
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Financial giants like Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo don’t pay out billions in bonuses every year by selling simple index funds with expense ratios of 0.10% or less.
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By recognizing these biases, we can protect ourselves from the errors that can separate us from our money, but in order to do that, we must first understand what they are and how they affect us.
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An entire generation of young people has internalized a message that has been repeatedly browbeaten into them by parents, teachers, and politicians: a college degree is essential to have a successful career.
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Investment portfolios should be constructed with a long-term mindset, but this is impossible if you watch every market bump on CNBC or Bloomberg. The markets are going to fluctuate.
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You probably don’t want to sully the beautiful sentiments of the season with thoughts of budgets and savings.
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Assuming that nothing is done to reach the long-awaited “grand bargain” on various tax increases and spending cuts, capital gains and dividend taxes will automatically increase in 2013.
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All things considered, the stock market has done relatively well this year, but that may not be the case with all of your investments.
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Fortunately, the federal government provides plenty of incentives for those individuals who are looking to help others in their communities.
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The reality, as if often the case, lies somewhere in the middle. The decision to buy a house is a very personal decision that depends on a variety of individual characteristics, not all of which are financial in nature.
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Many people have the impression that their Social Security taxes are placed into a special account that is reserved just for them, but this is not the case.
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The game sets up a realistic financial system that centers on the virtual management of college rental properties.
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