• Personal Finance

    Advantages of Using a Financial Planner

    June 30, 2019

    Saving Time

    Even if you feel confident about your ability to handle these tasks, managing these issues can take time and effort. You can streamline your own schedule and avoid spending time on this work by hiring a financial planner to do it for you. This can be especially helpful for people experiencing a high volume of work professionally or for people with time-consuming family responsibilities.

    Peace of Mind

    Knowing that you have a professional working for you to manage these important details can be comforting for many people. The expertise applied to your finances can ensure that you plan and strategize correctly to work toward your goals. Without this expertise, you might make costly mistakes. With the assistance, you could even achieve your goals more quickly. You can also enjoy the confidence that comes with knowing that the professional will be continually monitoring and reviewing your situation. If any … Read the rest

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  • Debt

    Managing Money Through Debt Negotiation

    June 30, 2019

    Debt Negotiation

    Many creditors and lenders are willing to work with their debt holders individually in order to get debt paid off, even if it means giving the debtor a break and not requiring the full sum. Good faith can take a debtor long way when it comes to dealing with debt collectors. Many debt collectors are not accustomed to getting paid in full. And, because they routinely deal with people who have poor money management skills, if a debtor shows good faith and comes up with a plan through reasonable debt negotiation skills, the creditor will often be willing to work with the debtor.

    Debt negotiation happens on all debt playing fields. Whether the debt involves the IRS or a neighborhood community bank, most lenders and debt collectors are going to be happy to take something when they are used to getting nothing. Using good debt negotiation skills to … Read the rest

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  • Personal Finance

    Cost of Active Fund Investing

    June 28, 2019

    Before getting into which of the products are suitable for you, there are some aspects that need to be considered so that you understand what the variations are among the products.

    Active investing is when someone (a portfolio manager) picks the stocks that are in the fund and decides how much of each one to hold (the weighting). This portfolio manager would also monitor the portfolio and decide when a security should be sold off, added to or have its weighting decreased. Since there is ongoing research, meetings and analysis that must be done to build and monitor this portfolio, this fund manager would have research analysts and administrative personnel to help run the fund.

    Passive investing has the same setup as active investing, but rather than someone deciding what securities to buy or how much of each one to buy, the portfolio manager would copy a benchmark. A benchmark … Read the rest

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  • Personal Finance

    Start a Savings Plan

    June 28, 2019

    Once upon a time, people saved for things before they were able to buy them. However, we have gradually drifted from being savers to spenders and being in debt, due to the easy availability of credit. For many people, their expenditure is more than their earnings, which means they are using credit to purchase things. Put another way, they are using tomorrow’s income to fund today’s consumption.

    But another and better way is to live within your means and save for the things you want, particularly consumable items. While interest rates are low it may seem like a good idea to buy what you want now and pay for it later. Unfortunately, with the possible exception of housing, most items purchased are what’s known as depreciating items or assets, where the value of the good decreases over time. If this item has been purchased on credit, it is most likely … Read the rest

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  • Personal Finance

    Selling Gold For Cash

    June 25, 2019

    This is the big question! There are a few choices available to those that want to sell their gold. For those that own scrap gold, the refineries or pawn shops are the first two choices. On the other hand, if you have old jewelry made of gold, you can also try at jewelry stores, collectors, refineries etc. First decide what you are going to sell and afterwards decide which buyer might pay more.

    This is one of the options. There are a lot of sites (eBay for example) that can allow you to show your metals to the world. Of course, this is not the most common place when it comes to selling worthy metals, but it works, because there are a lot of interested people.

    This is the greatest thing about displaying your stuff online. Some might not pay the price you want, but this does not mean that … Read the rest

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  • Debt

    Tips for Paying Down Debt

    June 25, 2019
    • Try to pay more than the minimum monthly amount required by your card issuer. Keep in mind that paying just the minimum amount required by your card issuer can cause your interest charges to balloon out. So, if you are serious about your desire to pay down what you owe, in the soonest possible time, then try to consider how you can allocate more funds to pay off your monthly credit card bills.
    • Come up with strategies that you can use to gradually pay down your credit accounts. To do this, you may decide to concentrate first on paying the debt that imposes the highest rate of interest. After all, this strategy is proven to help consumers save a great deal of money on interest charges. You may also decide to settle either the oldest or lowest credit transactions, whichever you find easier to pay off first.
    • Alter your spending
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  • Personal Finance

    Profitable Options for Gold Investors

    June 21, 2019

    Physical Gold

    The simplest way to buying physical gold is to procure bars and coins. The practice has been widespread for a long time and continues to be a favorite of many people that enjoy having physical possession of this precious metal as a kind of investment. Possessing gold in its physical form brings peace of mind to many.

    However, one must be careful and do some homework when buying gold. It is reported that Chinese-made counterfeit gold coins are in circulation in the US market. So, you should stick to buying gold coins produced in government-owned mints only. Often, these are sold at a premium. Some of the recommended gold coins worth buying are the American Eagle, Canadian Maple and South African Krugerrands.

    Gold Mutual Funds

    The benefits of buying mutual funds are well-known. Investing in gold mutual funds allows you to expand or restrict your risks. When considering … Read the rest

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  • Personal Finance

    Laws Affecting Money

    June 20, 2019

    Growing up I think it’s safe to say that, we all learned how to earn money. Go to school, do well then get a good job. A good job with benefits that pay well and has security. Then there are jobs that aren’t secure and most times don’t require good education. They are the jobs that are based on commission. For many people, it’s a bad word that they run away from but for the ones that work at it, it pays well. Dividends. Whichever way you choose to earn money, your goal should be to earn as much as possible when you’re young. Earning money is simpler than making money but the result is the same, you would have obtained money that needs to be managed. The choice to make money instead of earning money will most times depend on how you were raised. Employees earn money and the … Read the rest

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  • Debt

    Easy Debt Elimination Methods

    June 15, 2019

    Debts can always have very bad effect on your life especially if you want to borrow loans from the banks. This is because debts usually have very huge effects on your credit score. It would therefore be very important that you find a way of eliminating debts. This calls for a lot of financial discipline when it comes to using credit facilities like the credit cards. To help you eliminate debts easily, there are always a number of steps that you may take.

    These steps include avoiding impulse buying as much as possible. Impulse buying can always lead to exhaustion of your resources way too far before your next pay day. This may force you to borrow more funds from friends or lending institution. This will in turn lead to increase of your debts. It is therefore important to eliminate impulse buying as an easy way of debt elimination.

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  • Personal Finance

    Ways to Make Extra Cash Today

    June 15, 2019
    • Babysitting
      Babysitting is a very easy to make some extra cash when you are in need. If you have a young neighbor or young brother or sister you can probably make about $15 an hour to watch them for short periods of time. Offer to watch your friends kids so they can go out on a date, it is fairly easy to find a kid who needs a babysitter.
    • Return Past Purchases
      Recently bought some electronic or got a crappy gift and still have the receipt? There’s a good chance that you can take the product back to the store you purchased it at and get that money back for yourself. A very easy way to get some extra cash for yourself.
    • Recycle Scrap Metal
      Have a car? You can go around your town during trash day and take scrap metal from people’s trash, like copper piping, and sell the
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