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Understanding the most important investment concepts
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
It's always good to have at least a basic foundation of fundamental investment knowledge whether you're a beginner to investing or working with a professional financial advisor. The reason is simple: You are likely to ...
A look into alternative investments
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Your investment portfolio will typically include conventional investments such as stocks and bonds both equally important parts of a solid, long-term investment strategy. But, there are many other less-typical investments that can supplement your portfolio ...
An often-overlooked investment opportunity: Non-traded REITs
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Residential properties are one great way of owning a piece of real estate for investors, but it is certainly not the only way. Investing in commercial real estate such as malls, medical office buildings, large ...
Are Inflation-Indexed Bonds Right For You?
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Government bonds are the most popular type of bond that many investors and savers use because they carry the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Being relatively safe, the are appropriate for investors ...
Borrowing Or Withdrawing Money From Your 401(k) Plan
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Employer-sponsored 401(k) plans may have various loan provisions allowing participants to take loans against their retirement savings or take withdrawals in times of hardship. But before you consider borrowing money from your 401(k) plan, you ...
Choosing Mutual Funds for Your Portfolio
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Choosing mutual fund investments from the thousands of fund offerings available can be daunting. With so many different categories of funds and fund families, it may make sense to work with your financial advisor. Here ...
Diversify Before Your Retirement With In-Service Distributions
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Many don't know this, but if you are currently participating in an employer-sponsored retirement plan such as your 401(k) plan, you may not have to keep all your retirement savings locked in the employer plan ...
Importance of Asset Allocation in Diversification and Managing Risk
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Asset allocation means spreading your investments funds across many asset categories. As an investment strategy, this will help investor balance the overall portfolio risk, volatility, and performance. Asset allocation is an important construct to use ...
Investing in International Equities
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Investing is no longer confined to domestic markets and those investors looking to take advantage of attractive opportunities have popularized global investing. In recent years, international investing has become both the norm and the necessity ...
Is Your Portfolio Generating Enough Dividends?
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
The news around dividend-paying stocks became the focus of conversation at the start of the year with BP's massive oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. When the events began to unfold, BP suspended its ...
New Threats to Your IRA
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
After years of lax enforcement, the IRS is starting to systematically search out violations of the confusing rules governing individual retirement accounts. That's not a small undertaking and there's a lot at stake. Americans hold ...
Quantitative Easing Fueling Emerging Market Growth
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Since the Federal Reserve's recent round of quantitative easing, developed and emerging market investment opportunities are beginning to look more attractive to U.S and foreign investors. In fact, the Fed's actions have prompted a small ...
Real-Estate investing: Investing in REITs
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Real-estate may provide investors with a high-yield and low risk investment combination for greater total return potential to a diversified long-term portfolio.
For most people, investing in real estate begins and ends with the purchase ...
Take advantage of tax-free municipal bonds
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
When you purchase a municipal bond, you're loaning money to a municipality, city, village, county, or state. Typically, the municipality borrows money to pay for infrastructure projects such as building or repairing roads or a ...
Take Control of Your Finances with a Financial Plan
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Imagine the structure of your house: there's a foundation, a frame, a roof and the siding. What would happen to your home if one of those major pieces was missing? Now imagine your financial situation ...
The Role of Bond Funds in Your Portfolio
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Bonds are very popular securities because they regularly pay interest income and pay back the initial principal after the bond matures. Bonds are popular with people of various risk classes but they certainly appeal to ...
What to Ask Your Financial Advisor
By Yulian Isakov · 12 years ago
Taking a look at your portfolio and your financial goals at least annually is always a great idea. With the economic recovery underway, it is more important than ever to ask your Financial Advisor the ...
An Analysis of the World from Asia
By Mark Lister · 12 years ago
A recent meeting we had with Michael Spencer PhD, Chief Economist for Deutsche Bank in Asia, outlined a number of extremely useful insights into how Asia views some of the current international issues around Central ...
New World Economies Emerging
By Mark Lister · 12 years ago
A recent trend across the spectrum of large, multi-national corporations in the United States and Europe is the emergence of "new world" economies, such as the Chinese economy, for these corporations. These "new world" economies ...
Aussie World Trading - Learn to Trade AUD
By Nathan Timbery · 12 years ago
After sharing some insights regarding the trading industry here in Australia, I came up to this idea of sharing my personal experience so you could be able to understand how I actually decided to stick ...