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Should you invest in Gold?

Image by dieselbug2007 via Flickr Over the past few years, the stock market has been tanking. All the while, Gold has been going up and up, seemingly without limit. So why not invest a larger portion of your portfolio in gold?  After all, traditional wisdom says that the stock market and gold are negatively correlated [...]

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Economic Outlook (Guest Post)

Image by artemuestra via Flickr The following post was written by Thomas King, a CPA and financial planner based in Kansas City.  The following letter was sent to his clients last week, and he allowed us to repost it in its entirety. These views are not necessarily reflective of his firm, CBIZ. As you are [...]

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Apple is larger than Microsoft

Image via Wikipedia Some of the most shocking news in the last few days has been the fact that Apple (AAPL) is now considered larger than Microsoft (MSFT) in the S&P500 rankings. While technically it’s not accurate (the S&P numbers don’t reflect a large number of common shares outstanding from Microsoft which are not available [...]

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Sell your company stock

Most of us who work for large corporations get granted stock options as part of the compensation package. As a result, many also hold onto stakes which make up huge portions of their net worth.  Make no mistake, Stock is a great incentive mechanism, especially for smaller companies where each individual has more effect on [...]

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How do you figure out your asset allocation?

Once you’ve determined how much cash to keep on hand the next step is to figure out what to do with the rest of your assets.  It seems confusing, especially if you’ve never done it before, but it’s not. These assets should be divided into two categories, fixed income (or assets whose value is derived [...]

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Information Overload – What are some good index funds?

Image by Getty Images via Daylife How do you decide what stocks to purchase? Which index funds are the best? The problem with finance isn’t the lack of information but rather that there is too much of it. The paradox of choice overwhelms us and in the end, we do nothing, and stick with the [...]

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