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3 Harmful Retirement Myths You Should Avoid
Investing for retirement can appear to be a confusing and intimidating task. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that plenty of retirement myths have been generated in an...
This Cognitive Bias Can Derail Your Investment Plan
A made up mind is a very hard thing to change. This isn’t entirely due to humans being stubborn, however – studies have found that once you’ve formed an opinion, you...
4 Investing Mistakes to Avoid
While it’s great to learn from your mistakes, they can be costly lessons in investing. Thankfully, many of the mistakes made by long-term investors follow the same biases...
3 Smart Principles for Long-Term Investing
The key to successful investing isn't trying to predict where the market will move next; it involves sticking to the facts and a long-term plan. Rather than relying on...
Risk In Investing: How Does it Factor into Your Investing Success?
Risk is a four letter word that many of us shy away from, especially when it comes to our wealth. After all, there’s an inherent degree of failure associated with risk....
How to Catch Up On Retirement Savings
Between all the financial obligations and other responsibilities in your life, you may have brushed building your nest egg to the side. If you’re wondering how to catch up...
Stock Market Volatility: 3 Things You Shouldn’t Do
Stock market volatility can be an uncomfortable ride. When your hard-earned wealth is invested in the stock market, seeing it rapidly increase and decrease in value can be...
2 Mental Traps to Avoid In Investing
Investing is often just as much of an exercise in controlling your emotions as it is an application of your knowledge. After all, we’re only human – even if you have an...
How a Retirement Stress Test Can Help You
Before we start to rely on something important – whether that’s an automobile or a bridge - we want to know how it will react under extreme conditions. That same logic...
How Should You Invest During Stock Market Highs?
You may have heard in the media that there have been a few recent stock market highs. The Dow Jones (a benchmark for a portion of the US stock market), for instance, broke...
Few Are Confident About Retirement, According to The Retirement Confidence Survey
The Retirement Confidence Survey is the longest-running annual retirement survey in the nation. They recently released the results of their 2016 survey, and found that many...
How to Choose A Financial Advisor That’s Right For You
Picking the right financial advisor might appear to be a daunting process. You’ll see multiple titles and claims being thrown around by prospective advisors, and it can be...