We recently receive a question from a reader who received a fairly large sum of money several months ago and he wanted to know the best way to invest it. The first thing I did was send him to the article we previously wrote about dealing with a financial windfall. Basically take care of the [...]
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Update: Betterment recently announced IRAs and new lower fees! Why aren’t you investing when you know you should be? This is a simple question with many complicated answers. And perhaps that is the most frequent answer – investing is complicated. But it doesn’t have to be. The idea that investing can be easy was the [...]
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The following is a guest post from Hank Coleman who writes about his personal finance blog, Money Q&A. Index funds are boring. Money market funds and certificates of deposit make me want to pull my hair out from boredom too. There is no denying that these investments are typically the bread and butter of your [...]
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TD Ameritrade is one of the highest rated discount brokerage firms around, consistently ranking among the leading online stock brokers in a variety of industry lists, including the #1 online broker as rated by Kiplinger’s, and the #1 overall for brokerage for options traders, #2 for long term investors, and #5 overall for frequent traders [...]
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A common question I receive from Money Girl podcast listeners is about how to handle money in an IRA or Individual Retirement Arrangement. Judy wants to know: Is it possible to loan money from my traditional IRA to my sister so she can buy a home? Keep reading and I’ll give you the answer to [...]
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Roth IRAs are one of the most popular retirement plan investment options. This page will give you the information you need to know about Roth IRAs, including how Roth IRAs work, Roth IRA rules, benefits of opening a Roth IRA, comparing Roth IRAs to other retirement plan options, how and where to open a Roth [...]
Lately, there’s been a lot of interest in gold as an investment. From physical gold, to gold ETFs, a number of people have been looking at the recent run-up in gold prices and wondering if it’s time to get in. While some believe that gold is in a bubble right now, and that the bubble [...]
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