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• Retirement Investing Choices: Annuities

  

  This is part of a series of posts for an online class on how to use your investments to fund your retirement. To find other posts in the series, select the... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• What Are Growth and Value Funds?

  

  This is part of a series of posts for an online class on how to use your investments to fund your retirement. To find other posts in the series, select the... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How Inflation Affects the Stock Market

  The Small Investor How does inflation affect the stock market? Inflation is probably the last thing on people’s minds right now. Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Are You Ready for Your Tree Fall?

  

  Most people are able to cover their day-to-day expenses. They pay their rent or their mortgage. They make their car payments. They have plenty of food to eat an... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Evaluate Mutual Funds and ETFs

  

  This is part of a series of posts for an online class on how to use your investments to fund your retirement. To find other posts in the series, select the... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Making the Most with $2,000 in Investing

  

  So let’s say that you have $2,000 and are looking for somewhere to invest. Here is a commentary on the matter from four years ago that I wanted to revive. Enjoy... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Mutual Funds, Index Funds, and ETFs (Oh, My!)

  

  This is part of a series of posts for an online class on how to use your investments to fund your retirement. To find other posts in the series, select the... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• An Update on The Kiosks Are Here!

  

  About a year ago I wrote the post below after seeing an ordering kiosk in a McDonalds down in Alabama. I was in our Hardees last night, and they now also have... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Stocks, Bonds, and REITs

  

  This is part of a series of posts for an online class on how to use your investments to fund your retirement. To find other posts in the series, select the... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Handle A Large Inheritance in a Marriage

  A great post from a couple of years back – still applicable today. The Small Investor Receiving a large inheritance is supposed to be a blessing, but in some... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Determining How Much Money Will You Need to Fund Your Retirement

  

  This is the first in a series of posts for an online class on how to use your investments to fund your retirement. To find other posts in the series, select... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Managing Your Money in Retirement

  

  This afternoon I got into a conversation with a friend about money management in retirement. He has the opportunity to take a pension as an annuity, or to take ... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Ten Bottles of Wine Made for $10

  

  Are you a drinker? Do you like a nice bottle of wine with a good meal, or perhaps a glass of wine in the afternoon while you sit and contemplate your day?... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth!

  

  The Surprise Millionaires Today’s Surprise Millionaire typifies the very meaning of our saying, “ordinary people, extraordinary wealth”. A woman who inherited... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How Long Would It Take to Be A Millionaire

  

  How long would it take you to becoming a millionaire? Well, I used an investment calculator to determine at what age you would become a millionaire if you... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Working on Cash Flow Your Way to Wealth

  

  Thanks to the regular readers of The Small Investor. I wanted to apologize for not posting more regularly, but I’m deep into editing the new book, Cash Flow you... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Ways to Maximize Your 401k Returns

  

  Basic 401k investing is easy and can be done with a target date fund or by calculating your growth/income split and investing in a total stock market fund and... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Is This the End for Stocks (or Just the Start of Something Big)?

  

  There was an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal on Friday about how companies are slowing down stock buyback programs. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Simple Ways to Invest in Your 401k

  

  Congratulations – you are now a pension fund manager. There is only one person in your pension plan, but that person is very special – you. Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Revisited: Why Do Soup Kitchens Need Volunteer Servers?

  

  Taylor Swift reputation A couple of weeks ago I posted the question, “Why do soup kitchens need volunteer servers?” It seems like if the only issue were that... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE