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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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5 Tips for New Angel Investors

This is going to be BIG.

When you invest in a seed fund, you also get access to an investment manager who is in the market 24/7 and who has the ability to spot trends, compare similar companies and see patterns of success and best practices. 4) Journal your progress.

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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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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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Can You Turn Investment Losses Into Tax Gains?

Integrity Financial Planning

This strategy is when you sell stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and other investments carrying a loss to offset gains from other investments sold. Using a strategy called tax-loss harvesting, you can earn capital gains tax credits on your investment losses. What is Tax-Loss Harvesting?

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Putting Together the Puzzle Pieces of Retirement Planning

Integrity Financial Planning

It’s held jointly between you and your employer and contains contributions from you both, and it consists of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other assets. 401(k) This is the most common kind of retirement account.