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Help! My 401(k) is Losing Money!
Cash Money Life | October 10th 2008 by Patrick
This past week my workplace was abuzz with conversations regarding how much money people lost in their 401(k) plans. I’m sure similar conversations were going on just about everywhere. With the recent difficulties in the market place and the wo read more
Pros and Cons of Dollar Cost Averaging
Cash Money Life | October 8th 2008 by Patrick
Dollar-cost averaging is a common investment strategy where you invest the same amount of money at set intervals. This takes the guesswork out of market timing and you don’t need to worry about trying to “time the market.” Because t read more
Dollar Cost Averaging
The Investor Portal - Where Endless Possibilities Await | October 1st 2008 by Ben Ang Kai Meng
Dollar cost averaging is an investment strategy that can help lower investment risk by spreading out investment over time. While dollar cost averaging can be beneficial at times, it does not guarantee investment success because the value of the inves read more
Dollar Cost Averaging - Explained
Compounding-Dividends | September 13th 2008 by Jake
Dollar cost averaging is a strategy used to reduce your risk when buying. It is used to make sure that you’re not overpaying for any given security. Dollar cost averaging is when you put money into the market in regular intervals weekly/monthly read more
Invest a Lump Sum or Use Dollar Cost Averaging?
Military Money Might | September 5th 2008
Many Soldiers receive large bonuses to reenlist in the military. But, what should they do with all that money? Many just spend it on frivolous toys, flat screen TVs, cars, trips, etc. Some legitimately pay down their debt with the money or save read more
Dollar Cost Averaging
Young With Bux | August 1st 2008
One technique for long term investing is to use dollar cost averaging. Basically, dollar cost averaging is an investing technique that reduces exposure to risk associated with making a one big purchase. Wikipedia puts it well: The idea is simple: spe read more
Wall Street Ten Commandments that’ll send you Broke
Protect Your Nest Egg in Retirement | June 19th 2008 by David J. Bates
Wall Street is full of high sounding, feel good sayings about investing. Al Thomas of Mutual Fund Magic has put together what he calls The Wall Street Ten Commandments that he says will send you broke. I suggest you get them framed and hang them on y read more
Investing In The Stock Market
Stock Market Investing For Beginners | June 6th 2008 by Aussie Investor
Baby Boomers - What is a Good Stop Loss Percent to use?
Protect Your Nest Egg in Retirement | June 1st 2008 by David J. Bates
I had an email the other day from Paul one of my subscribers. He asked, “What was a good Stop Lost Percentage to use? He went on to ask if I could provide more information that might help him. I thought I would answer his question using a post read more
Stock Market Strategy - Dollar Cost Averaging
Stock Market Investing For Beginners | May 26th 2008 by Aussie Investor
Three Financial Planners worth considering for your Retirement Pl…
Protect Your Nest Egg in Retirement | May 22nd 2008 by David J. Bates
We Baby Boomer need a list of Financial Planners who genuinely want to help us protect your Nest Egg in retirement, avoid large losses and make it last as long as we do. In my research on how to protect my nest egg in retirement I have come across th read more
Dollar Cost Averaging Lowers Your Break-even Point - Investors’…
Nadlique's Blog of Financial Freedom | May 5th 2008 by Nadlique
This is the continuation of the first article on Dollar Cost Averaging. That article is located here. Now, we shall look at dollar cost averaging in action. Consider the scenario below: Let’s say you invest in a unit trust fund, starting with $ read more
Dollar Cost Averaging: Investors’ Perspective
Nadlique's Blog of Financial Freedom | May 4th 2008 by Nadlique
In this article, we shall look at what exactly is Dollar Cost Averaging. This will be looked at in the perspective of an investor (i.e. persons whose investment horizon is more than 12 months). For traders out there, hang on yeah. I will write about read more
Buying First Index Fund
My Journey Thru Personal Finance | April 3rd 2008 by MyMoneyAdventure
I've decided it's time to get in the market. Sure I have my 401k and a simple money market account, but I am tired of waiting. I am going to buy into a very broad index fund by Vanguard VTSMX. I will do the dollar cost averaging method and put in read more
#56. When To Switch And When To Do Dollar Cost Averaging?
Creating Wealth The Unit Trust Way | March 31st 2008 by Carson Ding
Investing: Dollar Cost Averaging
Personal Finance for Real People | March 22nd 2008 by Randall Parker MBA
Happy New Week!Many people often ask me if I have any stock tips. Usually, they hope for some kind of inside information, as if I had a clue! My basic recommendation is that if you have less than $100,000 liquid, investible cash, don't worry about bu read more
D-Day for Investment- 14 Days or Less to Go
Financial Freedom SG | March 12th 2008 by Lemizeraq
On the 1st of April, the CPF (Central Provident Fund) regulations on investment will change. A lot of investors will be asking if they should put their monies in the CPF and earn the high interest which should be a minimum of 3.5% for the first $20k read more
March Goal - Fully Funding Our Roth IRAs
Cash Money Life | February 27th 2008 by Patrick
On of the most important things you can do for your financial future (outside of paying off your debt), is to invest for your future. Right now, my wife and I are in a comfortable financial situation. Our only debt is our mortgage, and we have been s read more
Investing In Unit Trust- 5 Pitfalls to Avoid
Financial Freedom SG | February 8th 2008 by Lemizeraq
A friend told me that she had a financial planner asking her to invest all of her savings into unit trust or ILPs in end December before Christmas. She decided to hold on and not invest first and when the market fell at the start of this year, she wa read more
Making Out With Money
Smart Saving and Investing | August 20th 2007 by Bill Stevens
Whether it’s for the love of money or being in love with money. A really great way to love your money is to let it go. What I mean here is to set your money free into an automatic mode that allows you to concentrate on the important things read more
What to Do about the Ups and Downs of the Market
Worldwide Success | August 14th 2007
The Dow Jones industrial average has had 12 triple digit moves in the last 18 sessions, going down 8 times and going up 4 times by more than 100 points, sometimes swinging 2-3%. What are investors to do about this manic-depressive stock market? read more
Bloodbath in the Markets
Financial Freedom SG | July 27th 2007 by Lemizeraq
On Friday 22nd of July, the markets in Asia all went down following the lead from the US markets. However, the market in US at this moment as I am blogging is recovering the grounds that it lost yesterday.This small example shows how interconnected t read more
A simple example of dollar cost averaging
Financial Freedom SG | July 13th 2007 by Lemizeraq
This is a simple example of how dollar cost averaging works. For just 5 investment sums spread over 5 different fixed time randomly in 3 different types of markets (bull, bear and indifferent), this simple example shows the effectiveness of using the read more
Early Saturday morning thoughts
Financial Freedom SG | July 13th 2007 by Lemizeraq
When I was under training in a bank. I remember vividly that the trainer showed us a newspaper article about an ordinary looking woman who had just retired and has a lump sum of over a million dollars as retirement sum. She wasn't a manager or some h read more
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