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20 topics for your financial blog

Investment Writing

If you feel frustrated by coming up with topics for your financial blog, the journalist’s five Ws and one H can help. For help with this, read “ WHAT PROBLEM does this blog post solve for them? For help with this, read “ WHAT PROBLEM does this blog post solve for them? When are you ready to buy a house?

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What You Need to Know about Index Funds and Mutual Funds

Integrity Financial Planning

On their surfaces, index funds and mutual funds may seem interchangeable. Both offer diversification of assets and are commonly invested in a basket of stocks that aim to meet a certain investment goal. The Breakdown of Index Funds. The Breakdown of Index Funds. The Mutual Fund Difference.

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Can You Turn Investment Losses Into Tax Gains?

Integrity Financial Planning

When markets take a spill, especially when it comes to your retirement investments, it’s harder to find ways to meet your financial goals. While all these concerns are legitimate, there is a hidden benefit to selling your losing investments at a loss. What is Tax-Loss Harvesting? Key Takeaway.

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5 Tips for New Angel Investors

This is going to be BIG.

Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. Here are just a few suggestions: 1) Advise first, invest later. 3) Start with funds. Angel investing is part lifestyle, part asset allocation. 4) Journal your progress.

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Demystifying Systematic Fixed Income Investing

ClearMoney

The following is provided by Dimensional Fund Advisors. Systematic, or factor-based, investing has become quite common in equities. Investor adoption in fixed income has lagged, at least when measured by the assets under management (AUM) in mutual funds and ETFs. At the end of 2020, $1.35 More Robust Risk Management.

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Don’t be tricked by 8% eternal Universal Life Insurance Interest Rates!

Sara Grillo

I wrote a bunch of consumer advocacy blogs here to protect people from all the BS. Universal life (UL=money market investment) policies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s were illustrated using 8%+ CD-like rates of return forever. Variable universal life (VUL=mutual funds) were/are illustrated using an 8%-12% CD-like ROR eternally.

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Do You Offer Direct Indexing Yet? What You Should Know as an Advisor

XY Planning Network

Investopedia.com defines direct indexing as “an approach to index investing that involves buying the individual stocks that make up the index, in the same weights as the index.” 6 MIN READ. New software tools open the door for an advisory practice of any size to offer it.