Investing is overwhelming. When someone says that they invest in ______, they sound smart. But usually they are actually pretty dumb. Here, you can learn about different investments, how to invest properly, the risk/reward relationship, how to ride the wave of the market, and several other investing topics.
Risk is an EXTREMELY important topic when speaking about investing. After all, risk and reward go hand in hand. How do you measure each one? With reward, that is easy. It’s measured in how much money you made on your investment. But with risk, it is a little bit more Read more…
A common investment strategy that some people use is dividend investing. This is how it works. You invest in a mature company that pays a regular dividend and you take home those dividend payments to live on. But in order to do that, you have to understand how dividend dates Read more…
There are an infinite number of ways for someone to invest their money. You can be conservative, aggressive, or somewhere in between. And within each of those options there are an infinite number of ways to invest. But there are a few big indices out there that are really common Read more…
Investing can seem really daunting. There are sooooo many different things to consider. And sadly, financial professionals have a habit of using ten-dollar words and speaking over the heads of their audiences in order to make themselves sound smarter than they probably are. But not here. Let me explain (in Read more…
The S&P 500 is one of the most common financial benchmarks that there is. However, unless you are familiar with financial jargon and vernacular, it might seem like something you couldn’t care less about. But let me explain why you would know what it is and why you should care Read more…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is something that you have probably seen on the evening news or heard about on the radio during the news section. It might seem like a big financial topic that only the elite financiers know about, but it really isn’t too difficult. So let me Read more…
Investing can be a confusing topic. People who work in finance usually want it to be confusing because then they can make more money off of the regular investor. But it doesn’t have to be that difficult. Yes, there are TONS of different investments out there and TONS of ways Read more…
Fixed annuities and variable annuities can be a pretty divisive topic amongst financial professionals. Well kinda. Financial professionals and financial advisors with securities licenses don’t debate as much with each other as we do with insurance professionals. If you are reading this article, you are probably wondering about annuities. Maybe Read more…
To most people, earnings per share seems like financial jargon intended to speak over the heads of “regular people”. Largely, the professional financial community tends to make investing unnecessarily difficult. Investing doesn’t have to be nearly as difficult as someone might think. Let me break it down for you. Let’s Read more…
When the topic of investing comes up, most people want to simply talk about how much money they have made from their investments. But let’s be real for a second. Not everyone will have the same results. Some people will make more and some people will make less. And that Read more…