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March 23, 2011
Choosing Your Financial Professional

Choosing your team of financial professionals, and especially those who may advise you on investment decisions, takes some careful planning and reference checking on your part. You need to have a very clear understanding of the services and associated costs when hiring a financial professional.

March 12, 2011
Investing in Mutual Funds

If you don’t want to invest in individual stocks, another popular investment choice is mutual funds. Investing in individual stocks has higher risk as compared to mutual funds.

March 7, 2011
Asset Allocation Strategies

Smart investing is the key to financial success and proper asset allocation is a big part of smart investing. You have to properly allocate assets to develop a sound investment strategy that will help you achieve your goal with a good mix of asset allocation and diversification.

Smart investing is the key to financial success and proper asset allocation is a big part of smart investing. You have to properly allocate assets to develop an investment strategy that will help you achieve your goals with a good mix of asset allocation and diversification. That means having different types of investments, such as stocks and bonds, as well as having a mix of investments in different sectors or industries.

February 20, 2011
CDs and Money Market Funds

CDs and Money market funds are both considered short term safe investment options. CDs offer a slightly higher yield than Treasury bills because of the slightly higher default risk for a bank but, overall, the likelihood that a large bank will go broke is pretty slim.

On the other hand, Money market mutual funds are a type of mutual fund consisting of high quality, short-term debt instruments such as Treasury bills and short term corporate IOUs. Like all mutual funds, money market mutual fund (MMMF) portfolios are professionally managed and a management fee is charged against fund assets to cover this expense.
 

CDs and Money market funds are both considered short term safe investment options. CDs offer a slightly higher yield than Treasury bills because of the slightly higher default risk for a bank but, overall, the likelihood that a large bank will go broke is pretty slim.

January 20, 2011
Retirement Planning Guide

Most people don't think beyond 401(k) plans when it comes to retirement. Remember, 401(k) is an important piece of retirement puzzle but there is lot more to it.

Millions of babyboomers are getting ready to retire and a large number of them have good reasons to be very nervous. Remember, social security is no longer a bullet proof system as it used to be and if congress doesn't make some radical changes to social security system,it will go bankrupt by 2042. With the low personal saving rate in out country, there are not many options for people in retirement who don't have a adequate nest egg.