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Here's why performance reports are important, and what you should look for on them.
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Adam Bold believes women need to pay special attention to investing.
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Adam talks about making sure your investments have the proper balance.
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Adam Bold discusses constraints some managers have when mutual funds become too large.
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Health care is expensive, and it can become a burden late in life. Adam explains long-term care insurance and what it covers.
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Adam Bold offers thoughts on history repeating itself, and how investing in today’s crises is no different than the past.
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Adam explains viaticals, their downsides, and why he chooses to avoid them as investments.
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Adam Bold discusses the advantages of investing in mutual funds vs. individual stocks.
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Receiving life insurance proceeds happens during an emotional time. Adam walks you through ways to handle it.
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Adam Bold offers reasons why the concept of target-date funds is good, but execution has been a challenge.
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Life insurance policies are important, but so is naming a beneficiary for them.
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Adam Bold explains why Ginnie Maes (GNMA) are not a good investment option right now.
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Here are some of the moves investors should make as they approach retirement.
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Adam Bold recommends that investors generally should not borrow from retirement plan accounts.
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Adam talks about the ways to catch up if you're behind on retirement funding.
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Adam Bold explains the differences between fixed and variable annuities.
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It's a common investing affliction: chasing returns.
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Adam Bold says asset allocation is great...but spreading out investments among multiple investment advisors is not.
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Smart investing means showing patience.
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Adam Bold explains the impact interest rates and maturity have on bond values and how rates and duration affect bond fund values.
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Instead of trying to teach children about finance, offer simple advice on keeping on a budget.
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Some common mistakes people make with their 401(k) accounts.
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It's not always the best financial move to pay off a mortgage early.
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Adam Bold says focus on what the mutual fund pays you--not the fund expenses you pay.
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The differences between stock brokers and fee-only financial advisors.
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Adam Bold explains how to consolidate forgotten 401(k) accounts into a Rollover IRA for more investment choices.
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Adam Bold explains how the investing process offers you an opportunity to meet specific financial goals.
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Adam Bold explains how The Mutual Fund Store investment advisors never have a dual agenda when making mutual fund recommendations
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Adam Bold lists and defines the most common forms of investment risk associated with the stock and bond markets.
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Adam Bold believes investment clubs sometimes have educational value, but doesn't favor stocks as their investment choice.
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Adam Bold offers a definition for mutual funds and explains the benefits they offer to all kinds of investors.
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Adam Bold says mutual fund performance isn't necessarily driven by name brand recognition or strong marketing efforts.
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Adam Bold explains the differences between defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans and identifies strengths for both.
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Adam Bold offers advice on knowing when a good mutual fund manager has gone bad or is just going through a bad time.
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Adam Bold outlines the reasons why some company retirement plans offer limited investment choices to employees.
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Adam Bold explains that easy money in gold investing has already been made and it should not be a core holding.
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Adam Bold explains why he believes actively-managed mutual funds are a better investment option than index mutual funds.
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Adam Bold explains why he believes variable and universal life insurance policies are not typically good investments.
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Adam Bold explains that rolling over old 401(k) accounts into an IRA is easy and can offer better investment choices.
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Adam Bold discusses your options when the mutual fund manager making the daily buy, sell and hold decisions leaves.
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Adam Bold explains why be believes mutual funds can be an investment choice for investors of all ages and goals.
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Adam Bold explains the risks of having too much of your company's stock in your investment basket.
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Adam Bold explains why paying for investing advice can be money well-spent.
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Adam Bold defines variable and fixed annuity products and explains why they're not good investment choices.
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Adam Bold discusses what investors should ask financial advisors--before doing business--to find out who's paying them.
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Adam Bold discusses how the added costs of a load mutual fund affect performance and compares them to no-load mutual funds.
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Adam Bold describes TIPS (treasury inflation-protected securities) and how and when they might fit into a portfolio.
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Adam Bold discusses the importance of having--and sticking with--your strategic investment plan.
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Adam Bold explains how most achieve investing success in saving for retirement and other goals.
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Adam Bold offers guidelines for knowing when you have enough money to enjoy your retirement lifestyle.
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Adam Bold discusses the pros and cons of socially-responsible investing (SRI).
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Adam Bold explains how dollar-cost averaging is a great way to accumulate money over time and distribute it in retirement.
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Adam Bold worries about a bond bubble in the current environment, one likely to produce rising interest rates.
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Adam Bold explains that portfolio diversification limits the need to react to news that may impact markets.
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Adam Bold explains why investors need to know as much about retirement money distribution as asset accumulation.
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Adam Bold recommends that you avoid investments or investing approaches you don't understand.
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Adam Bold offers reasons why he thinks ETFs (exchange-traded funds) aren't good for regular investors.
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Adam Bold says that if you feel good about the value you receive, the investment advisor fee you're paying is fair.
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Adam Bold explains how emotional investing can lead to low returns.
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Adam Bold discusses the investment life cycle's accumulative and distributive stages and how they differ.
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Adam Bold discusses the pros and cons of Roth IRA conversions.
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Adam Bold discusses The Mutual Fund Store's plan for getting investors back in the market.
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Adam Bold says where your investments are held in custody is crucially important.
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Adam Bold discusses the pros and cons of using 529 plans to build college savings.
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Adam Bold explains the concept of rebalancing and why it’s so important for your investments.
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Adam Bold says market-timing is difficult and creates two decisions: when to get out and when to get back in.
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Adam Bold sees red flags when a financial advisor recommends investing in a single fund company.
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Adam Bold explains why annuity products represent a bad investment idea for most people.
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