Debt consolidation is a useful tool in every budgeter’s tool belt. It can lift heavy debt loads off your shoulders, open doors to financial freedom and shine a light on an otherwise darkened future plan. In this article, we’ll show you five easy steps to renovate your debt load with this …
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U.K. ‘Blue-Chip’ Stocks Worth a Punt and Companies Reporting Next Week
This coming week on the equity markets in London sees a number of companies in the FTSE 100 announcing their results, including big hitters like the miners – Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto – as well as Severn Trent, SSE and Unilever. So, should investors be on standby …
Read More »5 Questions to Ask Your Advisor before You Invest Another Dollar
Wells Fargo WFC -0.07% rolled out a new ad campaign in early May called “Re-established” where the banking giant seeks to do just that—re-establish trust with its customers following a series of scandals that undermined consumer confidence and tarnished the bank’s reputation. In a press release, Tim Sloan, Wells Fargo’s chief executive …
Read More »Fund Manager Romain Ruffenach Explains why He Likes a Few Japanese Stocks
Romain Ruffenach analyzes stocks — and manages a portfolio — for a European equities fund at SMA Gestion: Bati Actions Investissement 1. He started with that firm in 2013 — in the previous 5 years he worked at KPMG in the TMT sector. Romain studied at Audencia Nantes and Max …
Read More »The Financial Sector’s New Short-Term Technical Analysis Look
The most closely followed of the financial sector’s ETF’s — the XLF SPDR fund — had a significant technical analysis event in early July. On the daily chart of its price movement, the 50-day moving average crossed below the 200-day moving average — a possible distant early warning sign for …
Read More »What You Need to Know before Looking for a Financial Advisor
The more experience you have and the more you know on a topic or subject, the easier it is to make a good decision. Finding a financial advisor is not something people do with frequency, so they do not have much experience doing so. Therefore, having the knowledge becomes critical …
Read More »The Stock-Lending Bonanza in Your ETF
How would you like a money manager who pays you for the privilege of running your portfolio? You get that deal at 16 of the 737 funds on the Forbes Best ETFs list. They’re so efficient that the cost of holding them is a negative number. This marvelous result is made possible …
Read More »9 Entrepreneurs behind Finance Companies Share what they think about Money
Good sense about money is one of those things that most of us have to learn the hard way, and that’s also true of many of today’s top entrepreneurs in the money management and fintech space. They’ve had their share of bad investments (Enron, anyone?), waited too long to build credit and didn’t think …
Read More »Financial Advisors React to the Endangered Fiduciary Rule
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted on March 15, 2018 to overturn the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new fiduciary rule, requiring financial professionals who handle individual retirement and 401(k) accounts to act in the best interests of their clients. The federal court’s 2 -1 decision …
Read More »Subprime Auto Loans: What Borrowers should Know
If you lost your house during the subprime mortgage crisis, whether via repossession or simple abandonment, have no fear. There’s at least one other big-ticket item that you can finance into oblivion, namely a car. With credit expanding after years of skeptical lenders holding their dollars tightly, the money market has …
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