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If You’re an Investor – Personal Capital Will Organize Your Finances (For Free)

Personal Capital Simplify Your Investing

Everything You Need to Know About Personal Capital

You must sign up for Personal Capital because of the free Personal Capital Dashboard! 

You may have seen the Personal Capital TV commercials. If they didn’t draw you in, then learn why this robo-advisor or automated investment advisor is a required tool for anyone who wants to maximize their wealth.

This Personal Capital Review is a deep dive into their platform to see how it works and if it’s the righ...

Emperor Investments Stock Investing Solution – Robo-Advisor for Stock Investing

Emperor Investments – DIFY (do it for you) Stock Market Investing – For a Fair Price

Interview with Brenna Casserly, CEO of Emperor Investments, an all-stock robo-advisory investment portfolio. 

Founded by Brenna Casserly, former investment analyst and Francis Tapon, PhD and economics professor at the University of Guelph, Emperor Investments implemented this unique stock-only portfolio ten years ago, with their own money. Emperor Investments robo-advisor was born  in 2017 from this collabora...

September Investing Personal Finance Tips – Don’t Fear the Stock Market

With Investment Education and Discipline Comes Prosperity – Finance Links +Personal Finance Tips

I’m an investor and have been one for decades. I invest regularly, and have done so since the 1980’s, and despite several market crashes, our family is facing retirement in good shape. For the average individual, if history holds, sensible investing in the financial markets can lead to a secure future. These personal finance tips and investment advice will boost your stock market IQ.

But, like any...

5 Money Saving Tips for New College Grads

Start Wealth Building Habits Now

Guest contributor; Anton Ivanov 

College graduation is fun and exciting. New grads are finally done with their education and are eager to embrace new opportunities. But graduation can be a very stressful time as well. Along with finding a new job, moving and adjusting to post-college life, new grads often face financial problems. With all the stressors of entering adulthood, these money saving tips for new college grads will ease the transition.

Many young peo...

My Best Lazy Portfolio – Lazy Investing Can Lead to Wealth

The Best Lazy Portfolio

The best lazy portfolio is the one that you maintain. In investing there’s no one right way to invest or manage your portfolio. In fact there are hundreds of different approaches, and probably more.

Consider the active portfolio managers, they all have their own ideas about how to get the highest returns for their particular strategies. Then there are the hedge funds, clamoring to get alpha from creative investment strategies. Finally, the market timers think they will...

Best Investment Advice for Millennial Women – 5 Tips

Start Building Wealth Now With the Best Investment Advice for Millennial Women

By contributing columnist,  Alexandra Deluise

Millennial women, we have a lot going on right now. We’re fighting for equal pay while simultaneously facing difficult employment prospects, crippling student loan debt, and inflation that makes it tricky to afford having a family and homeownership simultaneously.

None of that is a reason to let our investments fall by the wayside, however. If anything, millennial women...

Investing in China – Ideas to Tap the Exploding Chinese Economy

Is Investing in China a Good Idea?

By, Soumyadipta Basu

You might think that with all of the tariff talk, investing in China is off the table. Not so, China is still a rapidly growing economy with more room for upward expansion. 

Today China boasts 1.4 billion people. That’s equivalent to 18.5% of the world’s 7.6 billion people. From an agrarian predominantly population, in 2016 55% of the Chinese people lived in cities. 

Read; International Stock Investing

China’s urbanization is what has le...

Money Can’t Buy Happiness, But ….

Money Can’t Buy Happiness – Find Out My Problem, That Money Can’t Solve

On occasion, money can buy happiness, while there are other problems money can’t fix.

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make your misery more comfortable. Money can keep a roof over your head, it can buy a boat, it can buy a nice home and it can relieve financial stress.

It turns out that there are situations when money can buy happiness, and others where money can’t. 

Save, invest and build wealth is my financial mot...

Warren Buffett’s Advice to His Heir’s is Wrong

Warren Buffett’s Advice to His Heirs

Here’s Warren Buffett’s advice for investing – to his heir’s. It’s great advice – just not for you.

“My advice to the trustee couldn’t be more simple: Put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund. (I suggest Vanguard’s.) I believe the trust’s long-term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors — whether pension funds, institutions or individuals — who employ high-fee m...

How to Prepare for Inflation – 8 Actionable Tips

 Prepare for Inflation – It’s Here

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.” Ronald Reagan

Inflation is here, and it’s increasing.

I know you’ve noticed inflation.

Gas and food prices are up. With new tariffs, you can expect other prices to rise too.

I’ve lived through really high – double digit – inflation.

And there are tips and strategies to cope with and prepare for high inflation.

How to prepare for inflation starts with acknow...