Financial planners and stock brokers have convinced companies that the way to insure their employees have a decent retirement nest egg when they retire is to require them to invest…
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Baby boomers, Americans born between the years 1946 and 1964, are reaching age 50 at a rate of more than 12,000 a day. That’s one person turning 50 every 8…
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When it comes to adding value to commercial real estate, the concept can be confusing. What does it really mean to add value? To add value means to increase the…
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1. What is your overall investment strategy?
An investment strategy is a plan developed to accomplish specific investment objectives. It ties into an overall goal for developing personal net worth….
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Over the past three months, we have witnessed the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall nearly 10 percent while the S&P 500 has fallen nearly 12 percent over the same period…
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There are basically two ways to increase the value of your retirement account: (1) select investments that appreciate in value, and (2) select investments that can be leveraged. Appreciation is…
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Investing in real estate is somewhat like investing in stocks. To profit from a real estate investment, an investor must determine the value of a property they want to buy…
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Although it’s a bit early to tell because not all of the numbers have been tabulated by the major commercial real estate brokerages firms, from the initial results that have…