Being an investor is a lot like owning your own business. You have money and people to manage, important financial decisions to make, and systems that represent your strategy. While these assets and operations result in successful and profitable deals, there are always problems arising, just like in a normal business, that can slow down productivity and progress of whatever activity is currently in motion.
Year End Investment Ideas and Tax Strategies
First thing Monday morning I’m going to march into my boss’s office and demand a pay cut so that I’ll be in a lower tax bracket next year. Profits are the holy grail of investing. Few people will admit just how infrequently they have experienced them or, conversely, just how frequently they have watched them disappear beneath the waves of a correction.
Investment Strategy: The Investor’s Creed
The Stock Market is a dynamic place where investors can consistently make reasonable returns on their capital if they comply with the basic principles of the endeavor AND if they don’t measure their progress too frequently with irrelevant measuring devices. Five simple concepts of Asset Allocation, Investment Strategy, and Psychology are summed up quite nicely in the “The Investor’s Creed”.
Understanding Fixed Income Securities: Expectations
Wall Street pumps out products and Investment Experts rationalize strategies that cloud the simple rules governing the behavior of what should be an investors retirement blankie. The investment gods have spoken: The market price of Fixed Income Securities shall vary inversely with Interest Rates, both actual and anticipated and it is good.
Concerned You Will Not Retire In Comfort?
Traditionally people have considered their retirement 401Ks and IRAs to be like safety nets rather than wealth builders. However, with the self directed IRA, you need not be satisfied with growth rates in the single digits. It is possible to realize phenomenal growth potential…