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4 High Rate of Return Investments to Add to Your Portfolio Today

Before you focus on high return investments, or investing of any kind, you should make sure you are not paying high interest on debts. If you’re paying more in interest on debt you owe than you can...

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Investing in Your 20′s and How to Avoid the Ramen Noodle Dilemma

As a child growing up, I remember my father constantly eating Ramen Noodles in a Styrofoam cup. It was pretty fascinating that all you had to do was add hot water, and presto, you had a ready to eat...

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How Much Money do you Need Start Roth (or Traditional) IRA

What are you waiting for? You finally reached that point in your life where you know that you need to start investing, but the whole process intimidates you. Many young investors falsely believe they...

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How to Invest a Million Dollars

They say you have a 1 in 10,000,000 chance of winning the lottery. Well, today is my lucky day because I just won – yeah baby!! Okay….maybe I didn’t actually win. We’re just going to pretend I did for...

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How Passive Investors Can Profit by Timing the Market

This is a guest post from Rob Berger of DoughRoller.net In May 2007, I started the personal finance blog, the Dough Roller. And if you read my earlier articles on investing, you know that I am a...

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7 Things You Need to Know About a Simple IRA

A common question I get from people is “What the heck is a SIMPLE IRA?”. Most people have never heard of a SIMPLE IRA and are curious to know how it differs from a 401(k). A SIMPLE IRA stands for...

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The 10 Best Low Risk Investments for High Return

The first time I stood at the top of the high dive at the rec center pool, I was a nervous wreck. I never realized how afraid of heights I was until that moment. For many that have never invested...

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Online Broker Comparison – Which Online Broker Should I Open an Account With?

Finding a great online brokerage firm to hold your Roth IRA, Traditional IRA, or just general trading account is a daunting task. Each broker tailors their website to show off their strengths and hide...

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Best Online Stock Broker Sign Up Bonuses

Ready to start saving for retirement and a better financial future? Opening an online brokerage account is one of the first steps you need to take. Once you have your brokerage account opened you can...

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Penny Stock Debacle: How I Lost $5,000 and You Can (and Better!) Avoid It

I get sick when I think about that day and the mistake that cost me $5,000. I compare it to something in between smashing my thumb with a hammer to breaking your mother’s most beloved piece of China....

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6 Secrets of Successful Investing for Building Wealth

This is a guest post by Gary Dek from Gajizmo.com. Everyone dreams of being rich, but the chances of winning the lottery or inheriting wealth from a distant relative are pretty slim. Building wealth...

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The 11 Best Short Term Investments For Your Money Right Now

I have $65,000 that I need to invest but I want to make more than the bank is offering.  Where can get a high return with any risk? <Sigh.> Decisions, decisions… This exact question was just...

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How to Join the New Generation of Confident Investors (Even With Only $100)

This is a guest post by Joel Zaslofsky of ValueofSimple.com It’s a sad and unsurprising truth. Not all of us can have Jeff Rose as our pocket financial mentor. After all, he has limited time, energy,...

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The Grow Your Dough Throwdown – How to Invest Like a Champ

Who doesn’t appreciate a good throwdown? Snake Eyes vs. Storm Shadow Han Solo vs. Boba Fett Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfied Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant Kanye West vs. Taylor Swift, Jimmy Kimmel, the...

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The Prosper Vs. Lending Club Experiment

In late 2012 I made my contribution to my Solo 401(k). As a business owner there is nothing sweeter than getting a nice big fat tax deduction. After I deposited it into my account it sat there in cash...

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Grow Your Dough Throwdown Part 1 – Revealing My Stock Picks

Welcome Savvy Investor I am excited to share with you the first installment of the Grow Your Dough Throwdown. If you missed what this is all about, be sure to check out our recap post where I share the...

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Real Life Tips: 68 Experts Share Their Best Investments Ever

There’s two ways that people learn: through personal experience or through someone else’s experience. That holds true in investing. I previously shared some of the absolute worst investments I’ve ever...

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Why You Must Start Investing Now

This is a guest post to to help kick off Operation: #investNOW where I’m inspiring 1 million people to start investing in themselves. This post comes from Barbara Friedberg of...

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Grow Your Dough Throwdown (March Update)

The Grow Your Dough Throw-Down is starting to heat up. The later part of 2013, I challenged 15 other personal finance bloggers to see who could grow $1000 the most at the end of this year and named it...

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How to Get Out of a Bad Annuity (without breaking the bank)

See if this situation sounds familiar… I recently had a call from an individual who had left his job, and he needed to roll over his 401(k). Not having a financial advisor, he relied on the referral of...

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