Investing

ING Direct Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals

by Glen Craig
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ING Direct is at it again. Rather than encourage people to go out and spend, ING Direct wants its customers to save and invest!  Once again ING is offering up Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Here are a couple of Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals they have made public so far:

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Five Ways to Invest Without Buying Stocks

by Glen Craig

From 2001-2006 I lost over a quarter million dollars trading stocks, options and currencies. I was pretty much the dumbest 20-something ever. Fast forward to today, and I’ve dug myself out of a pretty darn big debt hole, recently got married, and have even begun investing again. Just not in stocks.

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What Fees Are Part of Your 401(k) Plan?

by Glen Craig
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A 401k plan generally involves four parties: the contributing employees, the sponsoring employer, a plan administrator, and various investment advisors. A 401k plan aims to grow employees’ contributions through investments for retirement.  To better manage a plan’s ongoing operation, once the plan has been set up by the employer for employee participation, the employer will [...]

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Portfolio Rebalancing – Keep Your Asset Goals In Line

by Glen Craig

Investors construct their portfolios based on investment goals and risk tolerance by assigning appropriate weights to different asset classes and categories (or how much dough should go to each class). Over time, as market conditions change, investment performances among asset classes change but not in the same amount at the same time.  Some assets may [...]

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Portfolio Diversification

by Glen Craig
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Investing incurs risks because it is impossible to correctly predict future returns of any investment every time (if you can let me know!). However, what is certain is that not all investments perform the same way under the same market conditions; some zig while others zag.  Investors may try to pick one investment asset over [...]

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What is Asset Allocation?

by Glen Craig

What is Asset Allocation? Asset allocation is an investment strategy that is used to choose among various asset classes such as stocks, bonds, commodities, foreign currencies, real estate, annuities and life insurance, and high value collectibles including precious metals. Asset allocation as a way of investing is an important part of a person’s financial planning [...]

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Why Invest In Stocks

by Glen Craig

Despite all the latest turmoil of the stock market during the Great Recession of 2008, as we now call it, investing in stocks remains the premier means to investing. The stock market tends to have volatile performances in times of any economic uncertainties, but that is why it is a good barometer for the economy.  [...]

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Why Invest in Bonds?

by Glen Craig
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Why invest in bonds? We hear so much about stocks in the news but bonds don’t get mentioned with the same level importance and urgency (the Dow stock index gets all the glory on the 6 o’clock news).  Yet bonds are an integral piece of most portfolios as well as being an important debt instrument, [...]

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Investment Strategy For Beginner Investors

by Glen Craig

In my humble opinion, I think that all of us should invest our savings. In fact, the sooner we start investing, the better our results will be.  Often the problem is that investment language sounds like Chinese and there are more products that you can find in a Dollar Store.  The key point to remember [...]

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