A List of the Top Investment Companies
If you have begun to think about how nice it would be to ensure a comfortable retirement or how important it is that you have the means to send your doctor-in-the-making to medical school, you are probably going to want to turn to professionals for advice on how to invest your money. To that end, here is a list of the top investment companies:
Northwestern Mutual: Read more…
Categories: Advice, Featured, Information Tags: investment centers of america, online, orange cd, risk ventures, Schwab, Scottrade, sense, Top, traditional broker, wise investor
Variety Really is the Spice of Life: 8 Different Types of Investments
Are you concerned about your financial future? Do you need to put your kids through college a few years down the road? Do you want to retire while you can still do more than rock in a chair? Do you want to ensure your posterity the financial advantages that you lacked while growing up? Do you want to live a reasonably comfortable retirement without a lot of financial worries? Read more…
Categories: Advice, Featured, Information, Tips Tags: agency bonds, currency pairs, financial worries, idea, insurance, Life, profit, Spice, spice of life, stock dividends
Free Investment Research
Remember when you were in the eleventh grade and you had to choose an American author and research his or her life? You had to find out all about Hemingway or Twain or Frost and organize all the information into some sort of logical order and report it back to a teacher who already knew all that stuff anyway? Did you ever wonder why on earth you had to learn how to do all that? Well, believe it or not Read more…
Categories: Advice, Featured, Information, Tips Tags: author, brokerage services, cheerleader, eleventh grade, Free, free investment research, friday night football, intelligent folks, paper, research assignment, risk, school
Let’s Hear it for the Red, White, and Blue: Investment Centers of America
Let’s face it; one of the greatest things about living in the good ol’ USA is the opportunity to better yourself, spiritually, physically, emotionally, and financially. Ben Franklin was a proponent of the pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps mentality, and taught us all about it in his classic rags-to-riches story. The Puritans, despite the tragedy of Salem, brought with them what America needed and often still clings to – the Puritan work ethic. Read more…
Categories: Advice, Featured, Information Tags: classic rags, Hear, insurance, investment centers of america, Puritan, puritan work ethic, rags to riches, Red, streets paved with gold, work
Types of Investments
The basic concept of investing is really rather simple. The idea behind all types of investments is to use the money you already have to make more money down the road. That can mean a long way down the road, such as a twenty-something’s retirement, or a short distance down the road, such as a forty-something’s retirement plan.
Fittingly, an investment you plan Read more…
Categories: Advice, Featured, Information Tags: deposit, idea, long term investment, Low-risk, money market accounts, risk investments, road, short term investing, short term investment, type, way
When Does One Plus One Equal More Than Two? Investment Growth Calculators
If you are fifty years old or older, you may remember the slide rule and pencil in math class; if you are younger than that, you probably had the advantage of being able to use a calculator in your high school courses. Either way, the results are what mattered, and when you use investment growth calculators, the results matter even more than they did in Algebra.
That is because investment Read more…
Categories: Advice, Featured, Information, Tips Tags: goal, information, investment dollars, investment growth, leisurely travel, math class, Plus, retirement age, return, tool
The Definition of Investment: Piggy Banks, Coffee Cans, Stocks and Bonds
Investments can take two basic forms. First, an investment can be the purchase of goods, supplies, tools, or equipment to use in the production of increasing profits. For example, a businessperson who produces shoes may purchase a machine that automatically stitches leather in the hopes that the time saved will allow for the production of more shoes and increased sales.
The second basic form Read more…
Categories: Advice, Featured, Information, Tips Tags: answer, Coffee, coffee cans, idea, liquid assets, profit, return, several different ways, stocks and bonds, ways of investing money
Compound Interest Calculator
Do you know what a compound interest calculator is? Well, it is not a device that measures how well you would fit into the lifestyle of “Big Love.” A compound interest calculator is a device that allows you to easily figure out how much interest you will earn from a plan that compounds interest, or, of course, how much interest you would be paying on a loan that compounds the interest you pay.
There are two basic types of interest: Read more…