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How To Prosper With Peer to Peer Lending – A review of Prosper.com

Prosper.com is a personal loan and investing site with over one million members and over two hundred fifteen million dollars in personal loans funded since 2006. Using a unique person to person lending model, prosper.com connects borrowers and lenders and allows them to establish a mutually beneficial financial relationship. Prosper offers borrowers rates as low [...]

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Betterment.com: Investing in Stocks and Bonds Made Easy – Review

by Glen Craig

Have you been wanting to invest your money but haven’t been sure how to go about it? There may be a simpler, easier way to do it for those who those who want to invest but don’t know where to start or think it is too difficult for them. That answer may be Betterment. Follow [...]

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What Are Dividends?

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What Are Dividends? Dividends are a portion of a company’s earnings that is returned to shareholders. When a public company is profitable, they primarily have seven methods to invest their profits: 1. Hire new employees 2. Pay existing employees a higher salary 3. Purchase equipment and/or services 4. Merge or acquire another company 5. Purchase [...]

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A Better and Less Risky Way to Invest in Stocks

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Stocks provide great returns. There’s really only one thing wrong with this investment class. It’s the risk! Lots of middle-class people feel that they must invest in stocks to have any realistic hope of attaining a good retirement but live in fear of the stock crashes that can wipe out the accumulated savings of a [...]

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Lending Club Peer to Peer Lending for Investors and Borrowers – Review

by Glen Craig

Lending Club is an online website that offers a unique borrowing and investing model to individuals who need funds and those who are looking to make some money. Credit-worthy, pre-screened borrowers are paired up with savvy investors in what Lending Club calls a win win situation for all. Peer to Peer or Person to Person [...]

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Give The Gift Of Stock – ING and ShareBuilder Want To Help You Achieve Financial Independence

by Glen Craig

Are you looking for a creative gift? How about a gift that can help someone achieve financial independence? Maybe a gift that can build a young person’s interest in investing? ING Direct and their online brokerage arm, ShareBuilder, have created that gift – The Gift Of Stock. For just $45 you get: $50 ShareBuilder Gift [...]

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ShareBuilder $50 New Account Bonus and Free Trades

by Glen Craig

You know I love ING Direct products. I have both the Orange savings account for online savings and their Electric Orange checking account. What I also have is a brokerage account with ShareBuilder (owned by ING Direct). This is where I buy stocks outside of my IRA accounts. ShareBuilder is offering a promotion where new [...]

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What Is Peer to Peer (Person to Person) Lending?

by Glen Craig

There has been a lot said about peer to peer (P2P) lending lately. With the economy and credit market crunch making it difficult to get more traditional loans, “alternative” lending opportunities are arising. Peer to peer lending is a way for those who might be turned down by a bank to get the loans that [...]

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Busting Common Investing Myths – A Tweetup With Motley Fool’s Tom Gardner and ShareBuilder’s Dan Greenshields

by Glen Craig

A little while back I had the pleasure of attending a Tweetup at the NYC ING Direct Cafe hosted by Sharebuilder‘s president Dan Greenshields with special guest speaker Tom Gardner, CEO of The Motley Fool. For those wondering what a Tweetup is, it’s basically an organized meeting of sorts over the social site Twitter. The [...]

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ING Direct Black Friday and Cyber Monday – Seven Deals

by Glen Craig

They’re here! ING Direct has announced all of their Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. There’s a whopping seven of them this year ranging from savings to checking to loans to investing. Here’s the rundown of the ING Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals: (These are deals from a previous year. Go here for the 2011 ING [...]

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