Everyone Wants to Know How to Invest With Less Than $1000
Is the stock market such a treacherous place? It’s easy for an investor (such as myself) to say that it isn’t so scary. Those who don’t know much about investing will often seek advice and encouragement from an investor before taking the plunge themselves.
How often do you have a conversation with a friend that sounds [...]
Investing in Peer-to-Peer Loans? Think Like a Bank
Peer-to-peer loans have become the next biggest thing in investing. The stock market may be producing disappointing results but the new social trend in lending is proving to be a nice alternative – and a great way to diversify one’s investment portfolio.
Lending Club, the most popular peer-to-peer lending network today, is one such company [...]
5 Signs You Are Addicted to Investing
Making your first stock purchase may be a big step and new experience to a young investor – it certainly was for me. We’ve heard of the tragedies where people lost their entire retirement savings and we’ve heard of the fortunes of those who picked a winning stock.
But, of course we are hoping that we [...]
Why Index Funds Mean Fewer Headaches and Worries
“Pick index funds over actively managed funds” have always been the conventional advice. Actively managed mutual funds would often carry higher risks in hopes of higher returns. There is nothing wrong with adding risk to one’s portfolio but most experts continue to support diversification with funds that track certain indexes.
An article on Yahoo Finance titled [...]
My Proposed Retirement Portfolio Allocation
Ever since I’ve found a part-time job leading to some steady source of income, I have been slowly saving up for contributions to my Roth IRA. After plenty of research and an assessment of risk tolerance, I designed the retirement portfolio that I will be working towards.
Here is the asset allocation and funds I intend [...]
