Should You Invest In Bitcoin?

It’s usually not a good sign for an investment when a large brokerage firm runs an ad in the Wall Street Journal begging for more regulatory oversight and warning investors that the investment category is so volatile that futures contracts could create devastating losses. This is exactly what has happened after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced plans to start trading Bitcoin futures contracts. Seems like everywhere you turn these days, you’re hearing about the huge increases in Bitcoin prices as well as seeing tons of ads telling you how you, too, can get in on the action.

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Resolve To Be Successful With Your New Year’s Resolutions!

Let’s face it, we all have something we know we could work on to be healthier and more productive in our lives; and just like January 1 begins a new year many of us use this opportunity to make resolutions to identify and tackle areas we know we need to improve to live more fulfilled lives. The key to New Year’s resolutions really is not in the making of a resolution it is in actually successfully following through. High percentages of the population make a New Year’s resolution or two – unfortunately most resolutions end up in failure.

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How To Outperform Investment Managers

Here’s why we use index mutual funds and ETFs in accounts we manage and why we recommend them for just about everyone.

A recent research study shows that 93 per cent of all US stock funds that were professionally managed were outperformed by their respective index benchmark over a three-year average.

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Protect Your Nest Egg From A Market Crash

Ever since the stock market hit rock bottom about eight years ago, it’s been going up. But, sooner or later the market will have some kind of correction. Here are three steps you can take to protect your retirement nest egg.

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Is It Time To Ditch The Stock Market?

Now that we are eight years into a bull market, some investors and, most certainly the financial media, are assuming something just has to go wrong. As a result, you are seeing lots of stories about what area of the market is already in a bubble waiting to pop.

Here is an interesting take on some of these so called bubbles from economist, Brian Wesbury.

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Should You Rely On Social Security In Retirement

Once in a while we would run across someone who wants to exclude social security from their retirement plan. This, I think, is a big mistake which could cause people to work longer than necessary, or make cuts to their lifestyle they didn’t really have to make when they look back on things.

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