Since you’re sitting here reading a personal finance blog, I’m going to assume you already know the importance of investing your money. And while most experts will agree that the sooner you start investing the better chance you’ll have of building wealth, there are a few questions you should ask yourself before you start funneling…
Category Archives: Investing
Can You Build an Entire Portfolio Using ETFs?
One of the investing trends of recent years is the rise in popularity of the exchange traded fund (ETF). ETFs are constructed like funds in that they contain a collection of investments, but they trade like stocks. So, it’s easy to buy and sell ETFs on the stock market. You pay a transaction fee, and,…
Where to Research Investments
When it comes to investing, Warren Buffett, the famous “Oracle of Omaha” suggests that you don’t invest in something that you don’t understand. Before deciding to put your hard-earned cash into an investment, it’s important to do research. Luckily, there are plenty of tools that can help you research investments you are interested in. As…
How to Use Junk Bonds in Your Portfolio
OK, let’s come clean about something before we even start. If you were around 25 years ago when the stock market was made up of high society type people with some degree of specialized knowledge, you remember that there was no place for what we call today the retail investor. There is a 21st century…
How To Pick A Mutual Fund
You started a new job and as soon as arrive at the new user orientation they hand you a nice looking packet with a middle aged couple standing in a pasture gazing at each other. Under the tear jerking picture is some inspirational phrase like, “Take charge of your future”. You know what it is…
