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Retirement and Money Part 5 – Make Peace with the Stock Market
You’re entitled to be sick of the stock market by the time you retire. All those decades of rallies and crashes. Making money, losing money. It’s stressful enough to endure these ups and downs while you’re still working and have time to save more for retirement. MORE
Tagged Investing, Retirement Savings, stock market
Too Good to Be True
It’s a universal truth of money, indeed of life. “When something is too good to be true, it usually is.” Anyone who has been sweet-talked into an investment that promises to produce magical returns, buck the stock market trend or be virtually risk-free while offering a high yield has ignored this truth. MORE
Tagged Financial Fraud, investment, Return, stock market, Universal Truth
Rebalancing and How It Becomes More Crucial As You Age
In investing, it’s okay to be wrong. Just be sure it’s on the small stuff and not on big questions like how much money to have in the stock market. Let’s look at a way of putting up a fence in your portfolio to keep stocks right where you want them. MORE
Tagged Lessons, Portfolio, Rebalancing, stock market
Good Debt or Bad Debt
The debt debate has been raging over the past couple of weeks. When you are considering borrowing money for that next purchase, remember that there are good types of debt and bad types of debt. MORE
Tagged borrowing, canada, Debt, stock market
The Santa Claus Rally
With the hustle and bustle that the holidays bring about for many consumers who are trying to get the best deal for their Christmas shopping, a similar sense of euphoria – popularly referred to as the “Santa Claus Rally” – is often paralleled in the stock market. MORE
Tagged christmas, Investing, santa, stock market







