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Recent significant stock market declines and portfolio volatility have many investors inquiring, once again, about the safety of annuity accounts. Consumers ask, “Are annuities safe from a recession? Do they maintain value when the market goes down? Will they lock in my gains each year?” The answer is, yes. Investing in a fixed, an immediate, or an indexed annuity policy will protect your investment from market losses.

Should You Wait Out Another Correction?

Unfortunately, many investors are suffering through similar pains to those experienced during the market slide from 1999 to 2003. Most (not all) brokerage… Continue reading

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Prices have plunged, savings transformed to investments and online trading initialized. Low-cost trading has opened up the stock exchange for layman to invest in stocks. The time that only niche of the society use to trade is gone. Today even a small jobholder wish to make further investments to multiply his returns. One of the reasons is the media that has opened sealed gates of information to the entire world and the other is the Internet that shortened the routes of investments for everyone.

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Remember the first mortgage you signed for, … sitting at the table and looking at all the fees you were charged by so many different people, just to get your mortgage. It seems overwhelming. Have you ever noticed that they are always quick to take your money but v-e-r-y slow when it comes to providing a refund?

Well here is another example of the slow process, but worse, it could have slipped through the cracks altogether, and there are plenty of cracks. This information may seem confusing and contradicting but it is not intended to be so… Continue reading

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Imagine that you’ve decided to reward yourself for your hard work and success, and purchase a Bentley Continental GT Speed. You walk into the showroom, perhaps take a test drive, haggle with the sales associate-as much as one “haggles” for a Bentley-and within an hour or two, depending on your credit score and liquid assets, you drive away in your new car.

That’s a purchase of nearly $200,000 that you made in one afternoon, with financing. According to RealestateABC.com the median home price in December 2007 was just slightly higher, at $207,500, and yet no one really expects that purchase-with a… Continue reading

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Stocks vs. CD’S, which one is the better investment? Here I have put together a list of reasons, which explain, why putting your money in the stock market is better than putting it into a CD.

1 Stocks give you financial freedom. We all know that CD’s are safer than stocks. This is a guaranteed return. We also know that earning 3-5% on your money is never going to make you financially free. Unless you already have millions to invest it is not really going to pay out much.

2 Stocks make larger returns. When you put… Continue reading

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Using your Roth IRA for real estate purposes allows you to take advantage of compounding interest in a tax-free environment. If you are already investing in real estate, you should know that you can increase your profits by thousands of dollars, simply by using the funds in your Roth IRA for real estate investments, rather than using your other personal assets. Here’s a look at how it works.

First, let’s look at a few basic facts. In a standard savings account, you earn simple interest. You make deposits. The bank pays you interest at whatever rate… Continue reading

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