Once you’ve paid down your debt and are contributing enough to your retirement accounts, you can start thinking about other investment opportunities.
Building a diversified portfolio could be one of the smartest money moves you can make in your 40’s, and it doesn’t have to be all stocks and bonds....
Savvy investors often step outside the comfort zone of conventional paper investments – stocks, bonds, and funds – and into more exotic, hard assets. Silver is one such. Like other alternative investments, it often performs in an opposite way to traditional securities: its price rising when theirs falls…
Gold has always held a level of fascination for investors. Nowadays, you can buy it in any number of forms, from coins and bullion to exchange-traded funds and futures options. But is gold a good investment? For many investors, the answer is yes, but you should first learn how to invest in gold…
There’s a common saying that youth is wasted on the young and wealth is wasted on the old.
There is a similar concept in the small business world: Young enterprising business owners are constantly short on cash and older wealthy individuals, who possibly ran a business in their youth, are...
To the uninitiated, the stock exchange can seem like a casino, with news and social media feeds sharing stories of investors striking it rich by playing the stock market. But while there are winners, there are also losers, those who lose money playing the market, sometimes pulling their money out of the market because they’re afraid of the potential of losing money…
All investments carry some risk, but the difference between speculating and investing can illustrate the level of risk involved.
Speculating often describes scenarios when there’s a high chance the investment will deliver losses but also when the investment could result in a high profit. In contrast, investing generally refers to...
Mutual funds allow investors to pool their money in order to diversify their portfolios. Through diversification, both gains and losses are split among investors.
When an investor buys into a mutual fund, they purchase a share that represents a portion of the value of the fund’s portfolio…