Investment

Investing for the long haul

I have said it before that I am not an investment professional and I don’t provide specific investment advice. What I do know is that if you have several years until retirement (like I do), this uncertain time in the stock market is nothing that should cause you to abandon your long-term plan. I found [...]

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Load or no load funds

I have had several people ask me about the stock market lately and as I have mentioned in other posts, I am staying put and continuing to invest each pay period the same as I do when the market is doing well. One specific question that I have answered lately deals with load and no-load [...]

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Buy-and-hold on

The stock market has been less than predictive the last few months. Even though we don’t know where the market will end for the year, the one thing that we do know is that 100% of the 10 year periods in the stock market’s history has ended positive. The hardest part of hanging on during [...]

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It’s a buying opportunity!

We all know one way to make money in the stock market is to buy low and sell high. Over the last several weeks we have been seeing the exact opposite of this philosophy because of fear. Fear, I think, that has been somewhat inflated thanks to the 24 hour news cycle that we now [...]

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