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February 13, 2020 Personal 16 Comments

Trump’s budget could make it harder to stay on Social Security disability insurance

Trump’s budget could make it harder to stay on Social Security disability insurance Though President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to protect Social Security benefits, his budget includes big cuts to parts of the program. One proposal could make it more difficult for individuals … Continue reading at cnbc.com How zero-based budgeting can transform your […]

February 11, 2020 Personal 10 Comments

12 Budgeting Tips for New Parents

February 2, 2020 Personal One Comment

Miners Face Funding Squeeze as Green Investing Surges

Miners Face Funding Squeeze as Green Investing Surges CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – As global investors shift away from heavy industry in favor of cleaner sectors, mining companies are losing billions in financing, raising the cost of capital and … Continue reading at money.usnews.com How your portfolio can weather this stock market downturn — plus other […]

January 17, 2020 Personal 17 Comments

13 top-rated bathroom scales: Smart, budget and more

13 top-rated bathroom scales: Smart, budget and more Of the roughly 250 digital options with 4 stars or more on Amazon.com, we’ve narrowed it down to 13 of the best bathroom scales from smart scales with all the frills to the best budget picks. Continue reading at cnn.com Create a personal budget that offers a […]

November 4, 2019 Personal No Comments

Ally Turned Personal Finance Into A Game Of Augmented Reality Monopoly

Ally Turned Personal Finance Into A Game Of Augmented Reality Monopoly Learning about personal finance isn’t the most fun part of growing up, or growing older. Thinking about where to bank isn’t all the exciting either–unless you’re depositing a large sum of money or … Continue reading at forbes.com Kiplinger’s Personal Finance: Cut those streaming […]

August 23, 2019 Personal 14 Comments

Get the gun stocks out! ESG investing can get messy for socially conscious investors

Get the gun stocks out! ESG investing can get messy for socially conscious investors Investing by moral compass is getting more popular — but it’s not always so easy. Take the recent blunder in Vanguard’s US ESG Stock exchange-traded fund. The fund invests in ESG stocks, or companies … Continue reading at usatoday.com Volkswagen says […]

June 8, 2019 Personal No Comments

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May 16, 2019 Personal 14 Comments

Here’s What You Earned Investing In China’s Largest Public Companies

Here’s What You Earned Investing In China’s Largest Public Companies China’s mega-corporations are becoming more mega. And once again, their state-owned banks account for half of the top 10 biggest companies in the world, based on the findings in the latest Forbes … Continue reading at forbes.com What I’ve learned about investing after reporting on […]

Unlike the stock market, the currency trading market does not require a trader to pay a commission to place a trade. This will come as a welcome sign of relief to those who have grown accustomed to the vast amount of money they must fork over to their brokers which go towards clearing, exchange and government fees. In the 4x market you also do not have to worry about having a large sum of money in your account to sell your currency pairs. This concept of selling as you may already know is commonly called shorting in the equities world. You can buy or sell at will in the currency trading arena.

Investments once considered as stable as granite are rapidly losing ground, Lubaszka explains. Real estate is but one example. Long praised as a slam-dunk by money gurus, home-buying is no longer viewed as a hurdle-free path to profit. Stratospheric pricing and higher interest rates are putting intolerable pressure on the current housing bubble, factors bound to bust the suds sooner or later and drive the overheated real estate market into deepfreeze.

In some cases, in fact, it's not even the same fund to begin with. Remember, after a management change, the rating stays with the fund, not the portfolio manager. Therefore, a fund's rating might be based almost entirely on the track record of a manager who is no longer with the fund.