Quick — what’s your investment account balance? And what are your top five equity positions as a percentage of total portfolio value? If you can’t answer these questions from memory, you’re not alone, especially if you’re a hands-off investor who…
At any given moment, thousands of companies around the world trade publicly. For investors looking to pick individual stocks, that raises a crucial question: How do you choose which stocks to buy? While many investors choose to simply buy index…
Empower, formerly Personal Capital, is a personal finance app that helps you manage all your financial accounts for free. There are fees if you want to add brokerage services or retirement accounts, but you have all your financial accounts in…
“I want to buy a rental property, but the numbers don’t work in the city where I live.” It’s a common conundrum for would-be rental investors. Affordability and returns on rentals in metropolitan coastal cities tend to be poor, yet…
Rental property ownership is a potentially lucrative prospect. Its possible financial benefits include — but are not limited to — generous tax benefits, hedging against inflation risk, and diversification away from market-traded equities whose price movements tend to be closely…
Technology is changing many aspects of our world — including change. When I was young, I remember the thrill of cash and the spare change it generated when I spent it. I would scour my change looking for rare coins…
One common investing myth is that you need a lot of money to get started. This is sometimes true. Financial planners and investment advisors often require clients to have a relatively sizable amount of money to invest in order to…
Historically, getting access to the same tools and research as the “big guys on Wall Street” has been impossible or prohibitively expensive. Atom Finance is working to change that. With affordable monthly pricing and an impressive depth of research tools…
Collecting appeals to young and old alike, regardless of income, location, or expertise. Looking for and finding a rare collectible is fun and emotionally satisfying. Becoming a collector is rarely a rational, deliberate process. Few financial advisors would recommend it…
The consequences of “financial risk” became apparent to many investors during the two-year period from 2007 to 2009. The stock market (as measured by the S&P 500) plummeted from 1562.47 on October 10, 2007, to 752.44 on November 20, 2009….
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