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Building Success and Prosperity Exactly
Prosperity, wealth, is something that almost everyone in the world seeks, yet find it hard to attain for some 'strange' reason. Money issues is what we do much of the time, yet it is not taught in schools. When we are busy doing marketing, web design, or ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission...Friend or Foe?
For those of us who consider ourselves novices when it comes to "the financial world", it is interesting to understand the impact of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and its role in the world of investment. The SEC touts as its ...

Wealthy people became rich thanks to their assets
What is an asset ? An asset is simply something that brings money into your pocket.Liability is the opposite. It is something that takes money out of your pocket.Personal loan is a liability, your credit cards debt are liabilities. Your car, your everyday ...




5 Things To Know About The Stock Market
 
50% Of U.S. Households Invest In The Stock Market
Individuals invest in the stock market directly, through mutual funds, their pension plans, profit sharing plans, 401k's, IRA's, etc.

Mutual Funds Dominate The Market
It is mainly the mutual funds, buying and selling, who move the market and cause individual stocks to go up and down. Mutual funds are the 800-pound gorillas of the stock market; at the end of 2003, mutual funds held more than $3 trillion dollars worth of stocks.

The Dow Jones Average Is Not The Stock Market
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is comprised of only 30 selected stocks. In reality, there are more than 7,000 different stocks listed on the 3 major U.S. stock exchanges. That makes it quite possible that, in a given time frame, the Dow Jones Average may be flat or down but many individual stocks may actually be up.

Most Individual Investors Fail
Over time, most individual investors fail to achieve the stock market success they would love to have. This is due to many factors, including lack of knowledge, lack of time and effort, lack of a good strategy that works, and emotional decision making.

Can You Beat The Market?
Investing in stocks can be a very rewarding experience, financially and emotionally. If you do it right. With the right effort, the right knowledge, and the right strategy, an individual investor can do extremely well in today's stock market, and, as a result, realize a brighter and richer financial future.




Alan Korber is a private investor and the creator of the Korber Strategy, a simple and easy stock market strategy that uses certain parameters to identify stocks that have the highest potential return with the lowest acceptable risk. As an individual investor he uses his own strategy and the stocks he buys normally generate up to 50% or more annualized return. For more info go to http://akorber.com


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How to donate stocks and mutual funds to charity
Christian Science Monitor
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan/File By Craig Ford Guest blogger / March 11, 2010 IRS tax regulations allow you to donate stocks and mutual funds to non-profit ...


Mutual Funds Add Investor Cash for 51st Week in a Row
Wall Street Journal
Long-term mutual funds had net buying, or inflows, for the 51st consecutive week amid continued strength for bond funds, while foreign stock ...

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3 Key Questions on Actively Managed ETFs
Smartmoney.com
"The screening process [for stock picking within an ETF] really isn't any different [than stock picking in a mutual fund]," he says. ...
Actively managed ETFsCanadianBusiness.com
J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) Going into Exchange-Traded Funds BusinessAmerican Banking News
Retirement Plan Advisory Group Expands Scorecard(SM) System to Track and Rank ...Earthtimes (press release)

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It's never too early to open up a Roth IRA
USA Today
But that's the maximum: You can start a Roth with as little as $100 at many banks or mutual funds. The next question is where to invest the money in your ...