Want 4% Guaranteed Returns? Give Reward Checking a Try
Banks are trying everything they can to bring new clientele to their business. In fact, they're going as far as offering 4% interest on checking accounts, a banking product that…
Dividends Give Stocks’ Risk a Buffer
Though investors may love dividends for their income potential, stocks that issue dividends to investors also fair better in weaker markets. What's In a Dividend? Dividend paying stocks are more…
How Build America Bonds Fit in Your Retirement
With fixed income investors looking for higher yields, Build America Bonds may fit perfectly in their plan. Enacted as part of the 2009 economic stimulus package signed into law by…
Borrowers: Why You Should Wait On Paying the Mortgage
What has always been a staple of financial planning is now supercharged in today's economy of low rates and incredibly low mortgages prices. Paying off the mortgage is one item…
The One Way to Prepare Your Portfolio for the Recovery
Although 2009 was loaded with recovery green shoots, mostly in battered industries such as finance and retail, investors are best to be diversified during the later stages of recovery. Green…
Is a Booming Chinese Infrastructure Good for Your Portfolio?
A credit fueled expansion of the Chinese economy is sending its commercial and infrastructural businesses into overdrive. A combined effort of more than 13.6 trillion yuan (4 trillion in stimulus…
What a Retirement Calculator Won't Tell You
Planning for retirement isn't always just basic math. Too many people plan with the aid of a retirement calculator, without understanding the inputs that go into these ultra-important calculations. Sweat…
Why Gold Should Be in Every Retirement Plan
Never have precious metals earned so much respect among investors. Financial advisers are suggesting precious metals to their clients, while TV commercials boast about the performance of gold and silver…
A New Diversification: Tax Diversification
Taxes, taxes, taxes: those three words have thus far defined the campaign trail, as hundreds of members of government are up for re-election this year. However, taxes aren't just important…