Archive for the ‘Investing’ Category
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
As people learn to manage and invest their money it doesn’t take long before they hear about “Asset Allocation”. Your asset allocation is the distribution of your investments across multiple asset classes. The theory goes that by spreading your assets across multiple asset classes you can maintain or even improve ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The sad fact is many companies don't match invested funds in a 401k. If your company does offer a match...great. Take full advantage of it.
If, however, your firm does not offer a match you might consider investing in a Traditional or Roth IRA instead. You can make this type of ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
As retirement draws near it's important to start thinking about how you will convert your nest egg into cash flow. After all, your retirement goal all along should have been to create a certain level of cash flow. Figuring out your "number", or savings goal is important, but ultimately that ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
If you want to maximize your companies' matching 401k funds please listen up. Most companies match investments in your 401k or retirement accounts on a monthly basis. That means that if you don't contribute every month you could be leaving money on the table.
This will affect people who start and ...
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