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Real Estate Rules: 5 Mistakes to Avoid as a First-Time Home Buyer
Buying a house for the first time is a major decision that, if made poorly, can have you knocking on the door of bankruptcy. Unfortunately, buyer’s remorse is all too common when purchasing real estate. First-time homebuying is a highly emotional process that, if...
Rules of Investing: 5 Timeless Investing Rules That You Need to Follow in 2020
It’s been a rollercoaster of a year for financial markets. In February 2020, global stock markets reported their steepest one-week declines since the global financial crisis. Three weeks later, the price of crude oil fell by a staggering 26% due to geopolitical...
Top 10 Gold IRA Companies
Top 10 Gold IRA Companies Gold IRA's are an important tool for diversifying your retirement portfolio and building a financial future based on more than simply paper investments. When you reach the decision to invest in such a Precious Metals IRA, your first step will...
The Best ETFs to Add to Your IRA/401(k) in 2020
In today’s highly volatile market, investors have to fine-tune their portfolios to decrease risk wherever they can. Investing in many different asset classes, also known as ‘diversification’, is the best way to mitigate risk and protect your wealth. Thankfully,...
How to Make Your Portfolio Recession-Proof in 2020
Economies naturally grow and contract. When the business cycle is in a sustained period of contraction, otherwise known as a “recession”, market-wide economic activity declines and stock prices typically fall. Since downturns in the business cycle inevitably arise...
How Much Should You Contribute to Your IRA/401(k) Every Month?
The standard rule of thumb is to contribute no less than 10 percent of your gross income to your retirement savings plan. However, there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all rule for retirement savings. How much you contribute to your individual retirement account...
What is The Best Possible Exit Strategy When Looking to Sell Your Business?
Creating a successful business is no easy task. Some business owners work for years and never realize their dream of creating a successful venture. If your existing business is doing great but you have lost your passion for the industry you operate in, selling your...
Interview with Trevor Gerszt, CEO of Goldco
We have had the pleasure of interviewing Trevor Gerszt, CEO of GoldCo, also known as GoldCo Precious Metals or GoldCo Direct. GoldCo has been a pioneer in Gold IRA investments for years and also offers silver, platinum, and palladium IRA investments. Recently, the...
Fed to the Rescue? US Central Bank Cuts Interest Rates by 50 Basis Points on the Heels of Recession Scare
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve announced emergency interest rate cuts amid a worsening coronavirus situation. Shuttered Chinese factories, negative bond yields, and record-setting losses across all major US indexes tell a story of an economy in decline. In response,...
Choosing Your Business Name: 7 Things To Keep In Mind
The Guinness World Record holder for the pub with the longest name in Britain is the long-winded “The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn”. The sixteen-syllable business name is certainly not something you could say thrice quickly after several...
All Signs Point to an Inflated ETF Market (Here’s Why)
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are rising in popularity, despite legislative efforts to cool the market. According to Bank of America, the ETF market will hit $50 trillion in assets by 2030. That’s a staggering growth trajectory, considering the market only crossed the...
What Is Arbitrage In Financial Markets (And How You Can Use It)
Arbitrage exploits inefficiencies in the market that otherwise wouldn’t exist under conditions of perfect interest rate parity. Without price inefficiency (i.e., market prices on one exchange not having caught up to the real market price reflected on another), there’s...
What Are Funds Extracted From Funds?
We’re often asked, “what are funds extracted from funds?” However, a better way of phrasing this question is to ask, “what is investment income?” Investment income is simply another way of describing funds (cash) that have been extracted from investment funds or...
Why Pension Funds Now Favor Private Equity Investing
No longer are the world’s largest pension funds investing exclusively in the traditional stock and bond market. Fueled by the recent boom in alternative asset investing, pension funds are now rebalancing their portfolios and endowments to reflect a 30 to 50 percent...
What Is An Alternative Investment Fund?
To understand what an alternative investment fund is, one must first understand what constitutes a conventional investment fund. An investment fund is a supply of capital pooled by several investors to purchase a basket of securities, of which each investor retains...
What Is The Difference Between Private Equity and Venture Capital?
Although they often overlap, private equity and venture capital (VC) are not the same things. Certainly, private equity and VC are both types of financial investing interested in turning a profit by buying at a low price and selling once the asset appreciates....
What Is Private Debt Investing?
Private debt, or private credit, is one of the fastest-growing asset classes for investors. This should come as no surprise given that private credit strategies yield an average of over 8.1 percent internal rate of return (IRR). The high returns generated by private...
5 Things That Could Go Wrong In The Economy In 2020
The recent progress in trade talks between the US and China marks a dramatic turnaround in the trajectory the US economy will likely take. The US-China trade war represented a cloud over the global economy, affecting business confidence and investment. Although the...
