Do’s and Don’ts When Investing in Mutual Funds
In one of my previous posts, I mentioned about what to look for when buying mutual funds. Once you bought and invested your hard-earned money into mutual funds, then what’s the next step?
In my pursuit for further financial education, here are the do’s and don’ts of mutual fund investing:
WHAT TO DO WHEN INVESTING IN MUTUAL FUNDS:
- Pick funds that have a proven track record and a manager who has been around for more than five years.
- Pick funds that meet your investment
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Simple Investment Strategies
There are a lot of technical advices out there telling different investment strategies to grow your money. If you are a first-time investor, then you have to start from scratch. You need to understand basic and simple concepts in investing.
The first step in investing is to understand how the different types of investments relate to each other. Then you can do an asset allocation in each of these types to determine which amounts of your total portfolio to invest in each of these
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Financial Ratios You Need to Know When Buying a Business
If you want to become educated on business matters, then one of the things that you should know is the financial statement of companies. You need to know how to read numbers because numbers don’t lie.
Financial statements are the health check up of businesses. Just like humans, businesses can be subject of certain “diseases” that you should know before it’s too late. Here are some of the financial ratios that you should know to examine the health of a business. This
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How to Fight Inflation
Inflation is one of the reasons why do you need to invest your money. In economics, we have known inflation as the general increase in prices of commodities. The higher the inflation, the lesser the value of our money. Inflation degrades the value of our money. Your money last year cannot buy the same amount of goods now.
WHAT CAUSES INFLATION TO INCREASE?
Increase in oil prices. Oil is a very important commodity in the world because it is one of the raw materials of every company used to
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Overcome Fear in Investing
Without doubt, each of us don’t want to invest because we are afraid of losing our hard earned money. The fear of losing money is the main reason a huge percentage of the public struggles financially. But fear isn’t the real problem. It’s how people handle fear that matters. Kiyosaki tells people that the primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle the fear of losing money. Some people, when hit with a financial loss, give up. Others transform the
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Different Types of Investors
In continuation of the lessons I’ve learned from Rich Dad Poor Dad author, Robert Kiyosaki, I will discuss today what he called “Types of Investors.”
According to him, there are two main types of investors: Average Investors and Professional Investors.
Average investors buy packaged securities such as mutual funds, treasury bills, or real-estate-investment trusts.
Professional investors are more aggressive—they create investment opportunities or get in on the ground floor
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Strengths of Successful Investors
Each of us wants to become successful investors. We need to invest simply because we want our money to work for us aside from the fact that inflation eats our purchasing power.
One of the world’s greatest investor is the second richest person on Earth, the Oracle of Omaha - Warren Buffett. He became so successful that he now owns several parts of other businesses. What made him so successful as an investor?
I recently played a webinar conducted by the famous Robert Kiyosaki and he
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Opportunity Cost Analysis
Opportunity cost analysis is one of the main foundations used in making financial decisions. In strict accounting terms, opportunity cost is not really a cost or an expense. However, it maybe relevant in making decisions with financial repercussions.
Wikipedia says that opportunity cost has been described as expressing the basic relationship between scarcity and choice. When you are torn between making decisions with mutually exclusive results, then one benefit should be sacrificed and
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