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Hiring a Financial Planner

May 18, 2009

I have gone into some level of detail regarding different designations for financial planners (see Financial Certifications ), but I didn’t really go into advantages and disadvantages of having a financial planner. I know there are some people upset that their financial planner wasn’t omnipotent regarding the latest plunge, but they probably did as well [...]

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Falling in Love

April 16, 2009

Ok, I’ll admit it. I’m in love. I found a company that I thought would really move and would increase my net worth substantially. It was everything I ever dreamed of in a stock…and more. News kept coming of exciting new possibilities and products.
The future was so bright I had to wear shades. This was [...]

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Understanding Stock Dividends

February 12, 2009

Dividends are the payback you receive for owning stock in a company. In the simplest terms the company divides up the earnings by the number of shares and the stock holders get return on their investment. This generally would happen quarterly or annually depending on the company’s policy.
In the real world this is also impacted [...]

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What Value Does a Stock Really Have?

February 5, 2009

It’s funny how, as I am looking over articles that I have written over the past three years for this website, that most of them are as valid today as the day that I wrote them.
The basics of investing really haven’t changed, if you are looking for value stocks. The tricky part is defining what [...]

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Selling Strategies for the Market

February 4, 2009

There are as many selling strategies as there are investors, but I thought I would throw a few out there for your consideration.
The first one I’ll talk about is the Buffett school of thought, which is ‘who me? sell? no thanks.” Warren Buffett has many followers. There are newsletters, sites and articles on him throughout [...]

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What is a stock?

January 13, 2009

There is something really basic that people forget and I thought I’d take a few minutes to discuss it. It sometimes seems to be overlooked that when you are buying a stock, you are investing in a company. Probably at this point there are folks moving on to their next e-mail or clicking off the [...]

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