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Beyond Ethical Investing: Ethical Approaches to Personal Finance
Ethical investing is becoming more popular these days. A growing number of people are concerned with how their money is being invested and want to know that it isn’t being used to fund activities that...
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Six Signs That You May Have Too Much Debt
Personal consumer debt has reached such high levels that if it were a disease the World Health Organisation would have announced a pandemic; a dangerous one, like avian flu and the plague. Since debt...
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Changing Financial Priorities: Containment, Recovery and Investing
Lately I have been thinking about, and questioning, the way in which we set our priorities. Listening to my friends, it struck me that we think about priorities as more stable and persistent than these...
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How Far Are YOU From Financial Disaster?
Many people (if not most) live paycheck to paycheck and are only one or two paychecks away from a financial catastrophe. In fact, just a couple of days ago I heard about a young woman I know who has...
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Skip Your Credit Card Payment Without Fees
A few years back, I quite accidentally stumbled into a way to actually skip my monthly credit card payment without incurring any late charges or extra fees. I feel this is worth sharing, as this...
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7 Reasons To Fire Your Financial Advisor
Your intent was to hire a financial professional to help you meet your life goals, whether they are saving for retirement or your child’s college education or for buying a vacation home. Whatever the...
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How Financial Advisors Get Paid
I previously wrote about What to Look For in a Financial Advisor. In that post I briefly talked about how the advisor gets paid. I want to expand on that topic today. Overall, there are three main ways...
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What is Fiduciary Standard?
One of the most important yet most overlooked qualities you should look for in a financial advisor is whether or not they are a fiduciary. What is a fiduciary or the fiduciary standard? What Is...
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How Safe is Online Banking?
More and more people are using their online banks to pay bills and transfer money between accounts these days and I can only image that as time goes on, more and more people will begin to do so as...
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