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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? Who should inherit your wealth?

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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. However, there are many key distinctions that separate an index fund from a mutual fund – distinctions that may be crucial to your portfolio of retirement investments. The Mutual Fund Difference. 1] [link]. [2]

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Seven ways to talk your financial execs out of jargon and bad writing

Investment Writing

Note: This post was originally published on October 18, 2013, on the MarketingProfs blog , but it remains relevant today. That should be intuitive: Everybody is bombarded with content; and they skim or skip pieces that run long, as the mutual fund prospectus research in the next section suggests. Or, you can read it to them.

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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. Variable universal life (VUL=mutual funds) were/are illustrated using an 8%-12% CD-like ROR eternally. Also, nothing in this podcast or blog can be interpreted as legal or compliance advice. That is a mathematical impossibility.

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The SVB Situation and Your Financial Picture

Integrity Financial Planning

Stocks, bonds, mutual funds, Treasury securities, life insurance, annuities, and items held in safe deposit boxes are not included in deposit insurance coverage. If you use your bank’s brokerage service to buy mutual funds and the brokerage fails, you won’t be protected by federal deposit insurance.

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How do you spell it? “Out-performance” vs. “outperformance”

Investment Writing

” as suggested in my financial jargon killer blog post. Results of my spelling poll When I polled my newsletter and blog readers about the proper spelling, “outperformance” won in a landslide, with 92% of the vote. ” I asked, “What would The Wall Street Journal do?”

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What is the Difference Between a 401k and an IRA?

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

There are many flavors of IRAs; I’ll stick to the basics of a Traditional IRA and a Roth IRA in this blog post. Your investment options might be somewhere around 20 mutual funds versus an IRA that has access to thousands of investment options. IRAs do not allow this.

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