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…
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. It can be a really complicated topic. Nearly everyone has an opinion about it as well. Everyone from Warren Buffett to your own Uncle Craig who thinks he knows what he is talking about because he knew that Microsoft would be a great company before anyone else did. People Read more…
What is common stock? What does it mean when someone says that they bought common stock or own common stock? Before I started learning about finance and investing I had no idea. You may very well be in the same boat. No worries. Thisis not an extremely difficult concept but Read more…
What are dividends? This is a question that many people who would like to invest have, but often are too embarrassed to ask. (Myself included when I started investing btw.) So today, let’s briefly go over (1) what dividends are and (2) the different types of dividends. Here we go! Read more…
Preferred stock: a good way to diversify your investments that most people don’t think of. Preferred stock is an interesting topic for most investors. Most investors are pretty familiar with purchasing and owning stock. But when most investors think of stock, they probably think of common stock without even realizing Read more…
Index funds. One of the most widely used and popular investment vehicles. For most investors, they can be the bread and butter of the investing process. Most of us have heard of the importance ofthem as being part of our portfolios. However, most people don’t actually know what an index Read more…
ETFs. Exchange Traded Funds are a small part of the investing world. However, just because they are a small part, does not mean that they are not important. ETFs are one of the fastest growing sectors of the investing world with more than 7,000 ETFs available for trade by the Read more…