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There are various opportunities in the field of investments, but not all of them can be attainable as goals. While there are literally 1001 opportunities, there are as well three types of investments. These styles are in fact dependant on the degree of risk you are willing to reach and the financial goals that you [...]

Are your Annuities SAFE?  The truth about annunities and other insurance products.. If you own an annuity you have to be wondering is it SAFE. With the government takeover of insurance giant, AIG, what you should be wondering is the insurance I own safe money or risk money. For 100′s of years, insurance investments ( [...]

So you need a stock broker, what for. There is no doubt that even in today’s complicated investment arena, having a “Stock Broker”, “Investment Advisor”, “Financial Consultant”, or what ever brokerage firms call their salesmen today, is no guarantee of successful investing. In fact, most likely if you take the time to do your own [...]

ARE STOCK BROKERS AND INVESTMENT ADVISORS IRRELEVANT IN TODAYS MARKETS?  For some time now I’ve wondered: is the concept of the stock broker or investment advisor (or whatever they call themselves today) relevant any longer? The concept of a broker/advisor was that this individual would help you navigate the minefield called investing. This individual, WITH [...]

What is Funeral Insurance or Final Expense Insurance Final expense insurance or Funeral insurance is not a pleasant topic but is one some people may want to consider as they get older. One may begin to consider funeral expenses at age 65 or 75—depending upon his health. If you want to plan ahead, shop around. [...]

Understanding Fixed Income Securities: Expectations I’ve come to the conclusion that the Stock Market is an easier medium for investors to understand (i.e., to form behavioral expectations about) than the Fixed Income Market. As unlikely as this sounds, experience proves it, irrefutably. Few investors grow to love volatility as I do, but most expect it [...]

Wealthy Investors Need To Explore Other Wealth Protection Vehicles – You have spent years taking risks and obtaining wealth, and now at age 50 or older you are looking for ways to maintain your wealth, and earn a good return without incurring any major losses. The traditional ways of doing this have been with a [...]

 What is Day Trading and How Can I Profit From Trading Stocks. Day trading is the buying  and selling of  stocks or other financial instruments for ones own account. Usually this is done quickly and often and for small amounts of profits (or losses) and is not a long term bet on a stock or [...]

   Auction-Rate Preferred Shares Explained Auction-Rate Preferred Shares are short term securities associated with an underlying exchange-traded closed-end fund, and are offered to investors in conjunction with a closed end fund leveraging its assets. These funds are in no way guaranteed by any agency of the US Government. The purpose to the investor is to [...]

  How to STOP Taxing Social Security Income! Saving Taxes If taxable interest accounts were transferred into an Annuity, it might have deferred enough interest so that combined income would have been below the threshold amount.     1/2 Of Social Security  $5,700 Pension 19,200 Taxable interest 14,400 Total Combined Income $39,300 Exclude Annuity Interest [...]