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Stock Market Explodes After Trump Victory; Income CEFs Only Remaining Bargain
What happens in the future is unpredictable, but understanding the past and how it impacts your unique portfolio, is essential to your long-run investment comfort --- and sanity. The IGVS Expectation Analyzer has been developed for investors who want to view their monthly statements with reasonable expectations.
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Asset Allocation: Investing by the Numbers
If you focus exclusively on market value, dwell upon comparisons of your unique portfolio with the market averages, expect performance of some kind during specific time intervals, and listen intently when someone speaks about what the future is all about, any asset allocation work you do will be ineffective.
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Top 7 Ways to Minimize Your Income Taxes
Are you paying too much in income taxes? Are you getting all the credits and deductions you are entitled to? Here are 7 tips to help you minimize taxes and keep more in your pocket:
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Long Term Financial Planning Requires Careful Consideration
The old adage says Haste makes Waste, and caution is your only friend. How true such a proverb is when it comes to the world of personal financial planning. Caution means that you stop and look at all options before making any decisions in order to ensure that more often than not the result is a sound decision with a positive outcome. This step is almost mandatory when dealing with issues of financial planning, 401(k)s, and future money needs like retirement funds, etc. P...
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Health Insurance – A Necessity of Todays Life.
Health insurance is an absolute necessity in todays World.
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Retirement Plans for Solo Entrepreneurs
Saving for retirement is even more important for solo-entrepreneurs because you don’t have a company sponsored pension plan or matching 401K contributions to rely on. There are many retirement plans available to self employed individuals and small businesses. Which one is right for you?
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Taking The Time You Need To Achieve Financial Success
You have just finished a financial training course. You’ve learned to distinguish business finances from your personal expenses. From the training, you have acquired the skills to record, organize and monitor your daily spending. For all intents and purposes, you are now as ready as you’ll ever be to control and manage your finances quite successfully. Never forget though, that learning about it is different from practicing it. Everything you have learned will not matter one ...
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Compound Interest Doesn’t Add Much To Your Wealth
A financial plan for a comfortable retirement better not be based upon compounded returns.
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7 Steps To Gaining Financial Freedom
Ever wondered how to gain financial freedom so you have no worries about money? Are you spending more than you make and going deeper in debt? You CAN reverse that trend!The first thing you need know is this: if you are making financial planning decisions based on how much money is in the bank right now, then you are being controlled by the money, and this usually creates a constant worry about money problems. You need to control the money to gain financial freedom; not th...
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Chiropractors Who Learn Life Skills More Likely To Excel In Business
Are you living a life of excellence? Are you everything you aspire to be? Those are the questions life coach and mentor Terri Werner asks her clients, many of whom are chiropractors.Werner, who has a background in marketing, financial planning and business development, recently spoke to a group of chiropractors at the Karl Parker Seminar in Dallas, Texas. Her message, in the words of one attendee was “tremendous.”Werner does one-on-one coaching, public speaking and is...
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The Road to Financial Freedom
With a solid plan you can grow wealthy.
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Juggling Retirement and College Savings
Most parents want to pay for their children’s college education, or at the very least help pay for college. Paying for both college and retirement will be challenging for most parents. Here are some suggestions to help you to achieve both goals:
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What Is Free Debt Consolidation In Financial Planning?
Most likely you are reading this article because you typed free debt consolidation in your browser window. You certainly had a lot of hits on that one and this is just one article of many. One of the things you will have noticed if you start reading articles that seem to be about this concept that there is really a lot of differing information in them. One main reason for this is the fact that there is a lot of ambiguity surrounding the term free. You may find an article ...
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Some Problems Arise With Debt Consolidation Companies
You may have noticed the proliferation of ads by debt consolidation companies in recent years. This is becoming a bigger and bigger business, and now all you see is pop-up ads on the computer, or TV ads that try to convince you to use their services. Not all of these big advertisers are completely legitimate; a number of them are being sued by State Attorneys General, the Federal Trade Commission and the Internal Revenue Service. That is because they have falsely called t...
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Financial Planning Guide - Credit Card Debt Consolidation
So many people are lumbered with credit and other cards and some of them struggle to make those monthly repayments. If this describes you then you would be well advised to consider looking into debt consolidation and some help with financial planning to avoid risking bankruptcy. Loans are also available, but you should take time to analyze all the possible options.The simplest way to do debt consolidation with credit and other cards is to transfer the combined balances ...
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Debt Consolidation - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing?
Consumer debt has reached record highs in the United States over the past generation. While previous generations valued savings, the United States has become a consumer society valuing instant gratification over sound financial planning. If it sounds as if I am speaking from experience, I am.One consequence of this phenomenon is that debt consolidation has become increasingly popular over nearly all sectors of society, particularly the middle class. Debt consolidation s...
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Consolidate Debt Safely
Even though debt consolidation can save your financial status, as well as your personal relationships you still need to be aware of the growing trend to consolidate debt. Financial planning is always key in any healthy bank account, but beware of what some of these firms offer. Many have advertised all over the Internet and TV, but some of these are now being sued by different attorney generals, the IRS, and even the FTC. The reason for these suits is the fact that they ar...
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When IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other Tax-sheltered Investments Don’t Make Sense
Are there times when it DOESN'T make sense to contribute more money to your IRA or 401k? You bet--as CPA & bestselling author & CPA Stephen L. Nelson explains.
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The Magic Bullet Theory of Investing
Some of the best ways to reach the goal of dying broke.
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The 46.3% Marginal Bracket
Despite the new tax rate reductions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, the top marginal tax bracket for many retirees is a whopping 46.3%. Why? Because Social Security benefits are subject to income tax. Those affected are Social Security recipients who have the good
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Read This If You Can’t Possibly Save Enough for Retirement
Worried about saving for retirement? Here are three outside-of-the-box tips from CPA Stephen L. Nelson.
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Get Rich Slowly
Use the power of compound interest to grow wealthy
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Do You Pay Yourself?
Make sure you save some money before attacking your bills.
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7 Common Mistakes of Estate Planning
The most common mistake when it comes to estate planning is not getting around to doing it at all. Make sure that you take the time to plan at least the financial portion of your estate so that you leave your loved ones behind with some amount of security.
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Your 401(k) Investments and the IGVSI (May, 2008)
Typically, 401(k) participants buy the higher priced, last-year-best-performing, and hot sector offerings while they sell or avoid the various products they feel have "under performed" the market. Nowhere else in their lives do they adopt such a perverse strategy. And nowhere else in their thinking would they blindly accept the premise that any one number represents what is, or should be, going on in their personal investment portfolios.
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Your 401(k) Investments and the IGVSI
Smack, right up alongside the head. Your 401(k) investment program deteriorated rapidly as the stock market and the economy weakened. Who would have thought that there was so much risk of loss in those mutual funds, and ETFs? Fortunately, the pain is most often temporary, but the timing of the recovery could alter some participant retirement schedules and benefits--- not to mention the hefty confiscation level retirees can count on from Uncle Sam.
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