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10 Signs You Are Not Ready to Invest
Successful investment usually involves letting your money work over time. If you are not ready to invest before you get started, you are setting yourself up for failure. There is a certain amount of risk involved with investing so you want to be sure you're putting your hard earned money in the right places. Not understanding the market, investing for the wrong reasons, and even not having the cold hard cash to do so can land you in some hot water of the investment world.
By Nathaniel Channing III7 years ago in Trader
Why You Should Invest in Infrastructure Funds
Infrastructure funds have become extremely popular in the last couple of years, and they continue to attract capital and attention as an investment asset class. This may leave you questioning, "Should I invest in infrastructure funds?" To perhaps better answer that question, it is imperative we start with a more basic question: What is infrastructure?
By George Nekilan7 years ago in Trader
What to Look for in a Financial Advisor. Top Story - October 2018.
If the words "personal finance" give you a headache, you're not alone. But the process of finding an honest person who can help you with your financial planning is even more stressful—especially if you don't know what to look for in a financial advisor. If you don't know what to look for, you could end up with someone who doesn't work in the client's best interests. It happens all the time.
By Patty Ramsen7 years ago in Trader
10 Savings Apps You Need to Know About
I remember the last time my car broke down. I was living paycheck to paycheck, and the ball joint of my Mitsubishi Lancer had snapped. It cost around $900 cash to fix. Had my mother not bailed me out, I'd have been out of luck and out of a job.
By Iggy Paulsen7 years ago in Trader
What's a Robo-Advisor?
Financial planning can be one of the most difficult strategies to perfect in our lives. Every day, people spend thousands of dollars on financial advisers and planners to ensure that their money is invested in a safe place. However, in today’s modern age, there is now online software that can handle all of this for you, and for a low cost.
By Patty Ramsen7 years ago in Trader
An Author Attempts Acorns
If it's a stereotype that writers are bad investors, I suppose I’ve gone ahead and enforced it. Since there are so many apps that advertise making micro-investing easy, I figured I’d give it a whirl and try squirreling some money away into investments.
By Leigh Victoria Phan, MS, MFA7 years ago in Trader
How to Report Investment Fraud
One of the most notorious investment fraud scandals involves Bernie Madoff, his 4,800 clients, and $64.8 billion. We all know that investing is the smart thing to do with money that’s just sitting around. Whether you're investing your inheritance or your savings to have a better chance of keeping up with inflation, you might be able to make money without putting in extra long hours at the cubicle. However, like any financial pursuit there is the risk that you could get caught up in financial fraud. It's important to determine how to cope if you’ve been tricked into a pyramid scheme or if you've signed your money away to a fraudulent investment agency. When it comes to figuring out how to report investment fraud, getting yourself out of a scam involves much more than just working to file a complaint.
By Nathaniel Channing III7 years ago in Trader
How Many Millennials Invest in the Stock Market?
Millennials seem to be hated by every other demographic out there—often, unfairly so. We're called lazy. We're called whiny. We're called the "Me Generation," and are often told that we lack the life skills we need to survive.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart7 years ago in Trader
How to Invest in the Philippine Stock Market
Has the American stock market become a bit too prohibitively pricey for you? Are you one of the many people who feels like the glory age of American commerce has come and gone? You're not alone, and that's why many investors are turning to other countries' stock markets to make their money.
By Riley Raul Reese7 years ago in Trader
Things You Didn't Know About 'Wall Street'. Top Story - October 2018.
Among the best Wall Street films to watch, the classic 1987 film Wall Street is considered to be the archetypal image of the wealth, surplus, and success of the 1980s. Despite critical and financial success, leading to a lukewarm sequel in 2010, the film had more than its fair share of behind-the-scenes drama. Between this drama between stars Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas, burgeoning technologies, and historical relevance, here are some things you didn't know about Wall Street.
By Joseph D. N. Kendrick7 years ago in Trader
10 Signs of Investment Fraud Everyone Should Know
In an age where we are less than a decade removed from a global financial crisis that crippled the assets of a whole generation of people and businesses, there is a great deal of skepticism that many people take into investment and personal finance. While there are obvious signs of predatory investments and financial scam artists that have come to be highly recognizable and ubiquitous (i.e. Nigerian prince scams, Madoff style Ponzi schemes, check fraudsters, and the like), there are also far more subtle indications of fraudulent investments that everyone ought to look out for. If any one opportunity makes sensational claims like a 100 percent return on your investment, you can bet that this is damn near impossible. With the proper warning signs of investment fraud available, you will be able to spot these creeps, and only engage in investments with legitimacy and realistically estimated returns.
By Fred Eugene Park7 years ago in Trader
