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Lessons and Ideas from Benjamin Graham – by Jason Zweig

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Most do it yourself investors have at the very least heard of Benjamin Graham. For the uninitiated, he is often called the father of value investing. To me, he is an individual who provided intense clarity and a clear process to fully understand the stock that goes along with a company and whether or not that stock is worth the market price at the time.[ad#tdg-embedded] There is an absolutely amazing article floating around the internet right now by Jason Zweig about the lessons and ideas …

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Financial Pascalism: Have Faith In The Markets

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This is a guest post by The Weakonomist. His posts provide a excellent perspective on finance and I have enjoyed reading his posts. Please ensure you visit his blog and sign up to his RSS feed. Over the last 18 months, I've watched everyone I care about lose faith in the stock market. It's pretty much expected in any recession, but this is my first recession as an adult so it's been painful to watch. This is especially painful because I am responsible for selling them on the power of …

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Guaranteed Target Date Retirement Funds

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This post originally appeared on The DIV-Net. My company pension fund has the option of investing in something called a Target Date Retirement Funds. Here is how investopedia defines these types of funds: A mutual fund in the hybrid category that automatically resets the asset mix (stocks, bonds, cash equivalents) in its portfolio according to a selected time frame that is appropriate for a particular investor. A target-date fund is similar to a life-cycle fund except that a target-date fund …

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Market Returns 5 Years After Historical Market Declines

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The only investment "given" that I know for certain is that markets go up and down. I suspect that anyone out there can argue with that. Whether you look at it from a short-term day by day perspective or a long-term 50 year time horizon the market has been proven time and time again to do just that. Most likely the stock market is going to continue doing this in the future. So what does that mean considering we are in what many are calling a very historic stock market correction based on …

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Finance Applications I Use on My iTouch (or iPhone)

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Remember when all we could do with an iPod was listen to music. That was so 2002. I was using the current iteration of the iPod - the iTouch - reading the latest news while enjoying some Metallica and thought it might be a good idea to do a post on the applications (and specific web sites) I use on the device. I know there are many more out there; I am constantly finding new ones and dropping old ones. Here is a selection of the current finance related applications that I have …

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8 Ways to Deal with Volatile Markets

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Can I let you all in on a little stock market secret? This is very privileged information so please cover your screen while you read this so that others will not see our little secret. Ok, ready - here it comes...........The stock market is volatile and can go up and down a lot!![ad#tdg-embedded] Seriously though, the stock market does only two things on any given day. It either goes up, or it goes down. Our job as investors is to determine how to deal with it and not make stupid …

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