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Straight Talk about Volatility and Compound Interest – the Snowball Effect

Compound interest is, simply put, the interest you earn on the sum of both your initial investment and the interest that investment has already earned. Why is it important? Because your two potential advantages when it comes to maximizing potential earnings over time are: The power of compound interest Investing regularly through market highs and…

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Has the Internet Replaced Personal Financial Advisors?

With the wealth of information readily available online, it’s easy to feel that we’re all experts about everything. From scouring the finance blogs and Twitter for the latest “surefire” ways to beat the market, to diagnosing our aches on WebMD, to grilling along with Bobby Flay on YouTube, it can seem like we have almost…

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Do You Share These 4 Habits of the Wealthy?

In his book “Rich Habits: The Daily Success Habits Of Wealthy Individuals,” author Thomas Corley outlines what he learned when he surveyed both wealthy and struggling Americans about their habits and attitudes. Here are a few “rich habits” he identified that are worth integrating into your professional, financial, and even personal life, to help you…

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Not Investing Yet? Here Are 4 Simple Steps To Get You Started

Close your eyes for a moment and envision where you’d like to be in 30 or 40 years… Are you sailing to Tahiti? Writing that book? Running your vineyard? Building a new company? If you had trouble envisioning where you’d like to be, you’re not alone. But unless you can visualize it, unless you’ve got…

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Are You Making These Two Critical Investment Mistakes?

It’s no secret: getting an early start on saving and investing is one of the most important things you can do for your future! Putting money into the market when you’re young – even small amounts – gives your investments time to grow and compound over time. Unfortunately, too many millennials haven’t gotten started yet….

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Four Things Entrepreneurs Can do Now to Save for Retirement

While retirement may seem a long way off when you’re young and just starting to build a business – or older and rebooting – it’s important to have a retirement savings plan and stick to it to create the future you want. Retirement planning can be difficult for anyone, but entrepreneurs and small business owners…

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Discussing Personal Finance is Difficult for Many – but Critical

Money can be a difficult subject for any of us to talk about, although it seems to be particularly challenging, statistically, for women. According to a recent study released by Fidelity, 80% of women surveyed said that they had refrained from discussing financial issues with friends or family, despite the fact that over 92% of…

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Having the Money Conversation

Millennials have a tremendous advantage over their Baby Boomer parents because they are comfortable talking about money. Having grown up with social media and the internet, this generation is not as private as their parents and grandparents are, especially about subjects like money and finance. The advantage is that open conversations can reduce fears and…