Don’t know your asset from your elbow? No worries! Here’s a look at how to get started investing for absolute beginners—yes, even if you don’t know a nest egg from a chicken egg. Are you thinking of buying a home? Sending a kid to college? Retiring in style? Having a nest egg handy for the […]
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By definition, alternative investments work differently than stocks. As an investor, you have to know how to analyze an alternative investment in order to make the right purchase. Here are a few tools to help. Once upon a time, alternative investments were the sole purview of the wealthy. These days, though, ordinary investors have a […]
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Not sure where to begin with your 401(k) plan? Here are some of the best 401(k) investment strategies for every investor to keep in mind. For many investors, their 401(k) plan is the backbone account of their investments. Yet many investors mistakenly treat their 401(k) as if it’s a savings account—and that’s not the way […]
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Considering alternative investments for retirement? Here’s what you need to know before you get started. While there are a lot of strategies out there to invest for your golden years, they often come back to the same central tenet: take more risks when you’re young and taper down on risk as you get older. But […]
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Do you have enough to retire in comfort? Here’s how to calculate it and how to invest for retirement the smart way. Americans aren’t as confident about our retirement as we would like to be. Nearly two-thirds of 40-somethings have less than $100,000 in their retirement accounts, 28% of 60-somethings have less than $50,000, and […]
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Thinking of getting started with investing in 2021? Now is the time to get started. After all, there are only two (legal) ways to earn money in this life: earning money through your job and growing the money you have through investing. That’s a big deal, considering that most Americans are extremely vulnerable to economic […]
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