Becoming a landlord can be a good solution for a difficult housing market, but you need to make sure you enter into it with your eyes wide open.
Investing
There are several behavioral biases that can impact your investment portfolio and result in lower returns.
Stocks can seem as confusing as differential calculus. If you have money to invest, but you’re not learning how and where to do so, then you’re probably wasting valuable resources that could help you grow your nest egg or save for your children’s future. And you don’t want to do that. This piece is merely […]
Whether it’s growing up seeing the family struggle through the financial crisis, or how millennials are graduating college carrying more student loan debt than ever (probably both!), millennials (who are contributing to a 401k plan) as a group are so far showing better financial habits than baby boomers when it comes to saving in their […]
Have you ever wondered where the term “nest egg” comes from? Not surprisingly, it’s a farming term. In order to motivate hens to begin laying eggs, or to lay more of them, farmers placed eggs (both real and fake) in their nests. In finances, this term refers to any funds set aside for a specific […]
When it comes to investing, many of us are worried about making mistakes. After all, your money is on the line and you don’t want to lose any of it. Unfortunately, that very feeling of risk aversion might increase the chances that you make investing mistakes. On the flip side, you are also more prone […]