Mirror, mirror on the wall, do I pay the smallest fees of all? Thanks to Personal Capital's new report, The Real Cost of Fees, you can finally answer that question. Defining the Real Cost of Investment Fees For its new report, Personal Capital ranked 11 brokerage...
Beating Emotional Investing: A Little More Mr. Spock, a Little Less Dr. McCoy
It’s why you’re happy to scour the Internet for Bachelorette spoilers weeks before the finale… It’s why you’re willing to watch talking heads jabber away for months before the Big Game even starts… And it’s also why you recently lost a lot of money in the stock...
Ignore the Scary Stock Market Headlines. Read This Instead.
Dear Friend, The stock market is going down and to that I yell "It's about time!". We are investors and we want to buy stocks of good companies at discounts to their intrinsic values. Those discounts had disappeared over the last 18 months or so. Consequently, we have...
What Red Bank Investors Can Learn from Amazon About Economic Profit
Just how does he do it? Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has reported on-again, off-again profits since the online retail giant went public in 1997. Yet his company’s stock price has consistently soared. How? The answer is simple: What is EVA™? Economic Value Added™ , also...
Six Years Since the Great Recession of 2009: What’s New?
How much has your salary increased since 2009? What about the value of your home? If it’s less than 1
Mutual Fund Capital Gains: The Potential Rain on Your Retirement Parade
Just because it’s finally April doesn’t mean you’ll get caught in the rain. But if you still have your money in mutual funds, you need to put this on your radar: A tax downpour caused by distributed mutual fund capital gains. Capital Gains and the Mutual Fund...
Discovering What You Value Most with Goal-Based Financial Planning
When you hear the term “financial planning,” do you feel anxious? Intimidated? Maybe even terrified? Creating a financial plan just seems so overwhelming. It’s okay, I don’t blame you. Most Americans do not have a financial plan. They think that they will have to meet...
Don’t Let Your Retirement Rot: 6 Reasons to Roll Over Your 401ks Today
Have you ever closed your refrigerator door, indifferent to the leftover lasagna and other old food languishing there for days? Your inaction has a consequence: the food will probably rot. When you don’t roll over your 401ks into an Individual Retirement...
Financial Anxiety Alert: Do You Have a Retirement Savings Plan?
Have you ever lost sleep over your finances? Even just a wink? If so, you’re like 77% of Americans, who, according to a recent survey, are fearful about their financial futures. Financial anxiety wasn’t the only thing the survey shed light on, however. It also asked...
The 2008 Stock Market Crash: 3 Reasons Monmouth County, NJ Investors Should Re-Enter the Market
Tough question: if you were injured in a car crash later today, would you refuse to enter an automobile ever again? The thought might cross your mind, but most likely, you’d get behind the wheel again at some point. Though potentially dangerous, driving has too many...