Learn About Money Management: Personal Finance, Investing, and Retirement
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We've all heard that money doesn't buy happiness. So why is it that we spend most of our lives trying to make it? My answer has always been that while money doesn't guarantee happiness, it makes happiness easier to achieve. After all if you don't have to worry about the basics like food and shelter, you can worry about everything else.
This section won't attempt to solve the greater mystery of what makes a person happy, but it will cover things like how to make the most of the money you've earned. The emphasis here is on the stock market in general and exchange traded funds in particular. In addition, if you're interested in planning for your retirement, there's some information on that too especially around figuring the various types of accounts like 401K, IRA, Roth IRA, and Roth 401K.
In closing, please feel free to pose a question about anything we've written. There's so much to cover and we can't always be sure we haven't missed something. Good luck!
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The Importance of Education to Every Individual
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Balance Transfer Loans: What You Need to Know
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Best ETF Articles: Well They Were At One Point
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Reasons Why People Set Up Offshore Businesses in Singapore
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A Page From Running Money: A Peek Behind the Scenes of the Industry
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How to Apply For a Loan Even With a Poor Credit History
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The Art of the Credit Card App-O-Rama
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Dividend ETF: Diversity With a Focus on Income
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Investing with Stocks: A Beginner's Guide
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Alternative Energy ETFs: Eventually We Will Run Out of Oil and Gas
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Momentum Investing Strategy: Do You Have The Discipline
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Dividend Yield Vs. Dividend Growth
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ShareBuilder Review
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Platinum ETF: A Rare Metal Worth Your Investment Dollars?
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Equal Weight ETFs: Favoring Smaller Cap Holdings Could Be Key
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Income Investing Strategy: Looking for Safety With Regular Payouts
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Airline Rewards Cards for the Taking
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Companies Are Hoarding $1,000,000,000: Atlas Shrugged Anyone?
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Clever ETF Stock Symbols
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International ETF: Still Some Diversification Benefits
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Health Care ETF: Does An Aging Population Guarantee a Win?
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Bond ETF: Safety With Liquidity and Flexibility?
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IRA, Roth IRA, Roth 401K Guide: How Are They Different?
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401K Guide And Some History to Boot
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Currency ETF: Can You Win At This Zero-Sum Game?
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Alpha, Beta, and R-Squared: Investing Definitions Worth Knowing
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Why Own The Stock Of A Large Company?
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High-Risk Investment Techniques: Only If You Can Sleep At Night
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10 Overly Niche ETFs: They'll Happily Take Your Money
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International REIT ETF: Finally Foreign REIT ETFs for Individual Investors
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High-Yield Bond ETF: Take On Risk for Better Returns
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Mutual Fund Investing Strategy: Taking Advantage Of the Skills Of Others
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ETF Dollar Cost Averaging
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The Super 401(k): Worth A Look For Passive Investors
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How Fed Rate Cuts Affect the US Dollar
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Gold ETF: Not Much Intrinsic Value, People Sure Do Like It
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Couch Potato ETF Portfolio: Probably Better Than Constant Tinkering
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Oil ETF: Will Increasing Consumption Lift These Funds?
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Investing for College: A Chapter Review from The Boglehead's Guide To Investing
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Emerging Market ETF: Where the Growth Is
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Another Commodity ETF: They Keeping Coming
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Compound Interest: A Key Investment Principle
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Biotech ETF: What Could Be Better Than Medicine and Tech Combined?
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Coffeehouse ETF Portfolio: Boring, But Simple
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Silver ETF: Investing In a Metal With Actual Uses
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Energy ETF: Does Continued Growth Around The World Make These a Sure Bet?
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Russia ETF: Live There? Nope. Invest? Maybe.
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The Big List of Barclays iShares ETFs
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ETFs vs. CEFs: Confusion Remains
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Inverse ETF: A Contrarian Exchange Traded Fund
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Natural Gas ETF: Add A Little Variety To Your Energy Holdings
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Dividend Yield Vs. Dividend Growth
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A Quick Look At Canada's Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
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TradeKing Review
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ScottTrade Review
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1500+ Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
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Index Roll Investing Strategy: A Complicated Approach
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REIT ETF: Own Real Estate Without Having To Mow the Lawn
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All About Mutual Funds: 5,500 Words Should About Do It
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Investment Advisors Don't Care About You
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The Case Against Commodity ETFs
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Short Selling a House: Last Resort for An Underwater Mortgage Holder
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What You Should Know About Leveraged and Inverse ETFs
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Complete Guide to ETFs for Newbies
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Yale ETF Portfolio: If It's Good Enough For Yale…
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Online Investing vs. Traditional Financial Planners
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Roth IRA Conversion Q&A: Why Is Everything So Complicated?
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Retirement Income Funds (RIF): Forced Withdrawals To Trigger Income Tax
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Market Timing Investing Strategy: Very Few Succeed
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Value Investing Strategy: If You Can Wait Long Enough You Can Win
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Investment Strategies: Pick One and Stick With It
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Investing in Debt vs. Investing in Stocks
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Best Places to Retire in the World
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ETF Exit Strategy Considerations: When Do You Get Out?
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Getting Around the Wash Sale Rule with ETFs
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Two Brain ETF Portfolio: Rational Investing With Some Fun Mixed In
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Retail Investors are Idiots And the Pros Bank On It
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Technical ETF: If You Believe In the Approach But Want Pros to Execute
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The Great Shrinking Emergency Fund
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New Lessons of the Stock Market (Humor)
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Day Trading and Technical Analysis: Is History Destined To Repeat?
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Barclays' International REIT ETF: Own Property (Sort Of) Around the World
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Commodities ETF: They're Not Interesting, But Key To Everyday Living
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Average Return Calculation: Folks Foolishly Fool Themselves
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Microcap ETF: A Tough Segment To Invest In Now Made Easier
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8 Reasons Why The US Economy Sucks
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Green ETF: Investing in Feel-Good, Eco-Friendly Companies
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Fidelity Review
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The 10 Basic Principles of Investing
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Dollar Cost Averaging with ETFs: Taking Emotion Out of the Buying Equation
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How to Deal With a 401(k) Plan That Sucks
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Schwab Review
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Steel ETF: Growth Means Building and Buildings Require Steel
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Technology ETF: On-Going Fund Gains From the Never-Ending Tech Cycle?
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When the Stock Market Tanks (And You Know It Will)
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How Does ETF Pricing Work?
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Do You REALLY Need A Large Emergency Cash Fund?
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Mortgage ETF: Hoping That People Pay Off Their Loans
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Developing An Investment Plan To Reach Your Goals
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ETF Rebalancing: Keep Your Allocations In Alignment
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Canada ETF: Invest In This Commodity Heavy Country?
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Small Cap ETF: Small Companies Are More Likely To Grow In Multiples
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BRIC ETF: Emerging Markets Are Riskier, But Growing Faster
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Fixed Income ETF: Tap Into the Bond Market
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Zecco Review
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Vanguard Review
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More Commodity ETFs: They'll Keep Coming As Long We Keep Buying
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Nano Tech ETF: Betting Big On Really Small Things
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An Index of All Things: Does Investing In Everything Make Sense?
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Managing Investment Expenses: They'll Add Up If You're Not Careful
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Does Stock Market Diversification Still Work?
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Treasury ETFs: Are They Really the Safest Exchange Traded Funds?
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The "Buying a House is Always a Good Investment" Myth Persists
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ETF Checklist: Don't Get Suckered and Make a Bad Buy
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Can I Be Sued for My IRA?
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Leveraged ETFs: Bigger Wins, But Also Bigger Losses
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A Better Dividend ETF?
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Definition of ETF: Just What Is An ETF?
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The 0% Interest Balance Transfer Game
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Merrill Lynch Direct Review
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Spin-Off ETF: Banking On The Implied Value of a Spin-Off
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Flaws With the S&P 1500 ETF And Why I'm Not Buying
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Buy and Hold Forever Is Bad Advice
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Water ETF: A Precious Commodity Despite Its Abundancy
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Fundamental Analysis vs. Technical Analysis
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