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Investment Strategy: The Investor's Creed, and "Smart Cash"
We've become the product of a media driven culture that must have reasons, predictability, blame, scapegoats, and even that four-letter word, certaintycom http://www

Investment Advisors 101… ask some questions.
But the “variable products” scam dwarfs in potential long-term impact to the more recent high crime against investors If you are willing to ask the right questions, you can find an IA who might just be able to help you (and herself) at the same time Try these for starters: Do you sell any products? Do you have a personal portfolio that I can review? Do you provide a “fee only” advisory service? How long have you been in the financial services business, and is it your only business? (It’s not your job to educate “newbies”!) Are you affiliated with any other financial services companies? Do you have at least five non-family clients who you have been advising for at least five years… that I can contact directly? Will you be compensated for referring me to someone? Stay safer by finding a fee only advisor who has just one profession and the ability to say NO by: Steve Selengut Investment Advisors (IAs) come in all different intellectual, professional, and alphabetical varieties

Income Investing: Selecting the Right Stuff
I told you you’d be angry! Another feature of Investment Company shares (and please stay away from gimmicky, passively managed, or indexed types) is somewhat surprising and difficult to explain So do a little research and spread your dollars around the many management companies that are out there If your advisor tells you that all of this is risky, ill-advised foolishness… well, that’s Wall Street, and the baby needs shoes But the income on these turncoats is the same as it was in 2004, when their prices were ten or twenty percent higher

Understanding Fixed Income Securities: Expectations
You have to understand how these securities react to interest rate expectations and take advantage of it (2) The combination of increasing age and inexperience creates an inordinate fear of loss that is prayed upon by commissioned sales persons of all shapes and sizes Think about it] Every properly constructed portfolio will contain securities whose primary purpose is to generate income (fixed and/or variable), and every investor must understand some basic and “absolute” characteristics of Interest Rate Sensitive Securities

Surviving Without Mutual Funds
Most won't try About The Author Steve Selengut sanserve@aol (5) Yes, individual securities in a plain vanilla investment plan can be much safer 1) Is there "Investment Life" after Mutual Funds? 2) What is the average investor/speculator to do? (3) Who can you trust? (4) Why are people still throwing money at the corrupt Mutual Funds? 5) Is there a safe(r) alternative? 6) Can a financial professional function without funds? (7) Did Mutual Funds make YOU lose money over the past several years? (Answers below

Ten New Investment Concepts, the Time has come…
Just do it 11 2 I have never found a correlation between the calendar year and any market, interest rate, or economic cycle