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QE3 Since When Is Pushing on the Accelerator a Good Way to Avoid a Wall?

Investing Strategy

  We have been waiting for it more anxiously than the next release date of a U2 show. After a good 12 months of waiting, the market finally got what it was asking for: more money pumped in the system. Last week, Big Ben (Ben Bernanke) revived the stock market by announcing another round of Quantitative Easing surnamed QE3. The market surged by almost 2% in a single day. I guess we can call this good news… but is it really?   Quantitative Easing (QE) History So …

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Investing and Cash Flow Strategies Through Insurance

Investing Strategy

    There are few strategies that could be used to invest or generate extra cash flow through insurance products. Insurance is not exactly part of my usual topics but this post is part of the Insurance Movement hosted by a buddy of mine at Good Financial Cents. It shows the importance of insurance for everybody. Since there are a few ways to invest or generate a steady cash flow by using insurance, I thought it was a good angle to use for this blog. Did you know that insurance …

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3 Dividend Traps You Must Avoid

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    To What Point Are You Blind When Looking At Your Dividend Stocks?   Have you ever heard of what investors call the “value trap”. A value trap happens when a stock is trading at a very appealing P/E ratio. Investors think they have found the deal of the year and they buy it without thinking further. The problem is that sometimes, the stock is a value trap: it’s worth a lot today, but the economics around the stock will eventually lead the company to be less …

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What’s Your Bet On…

Investing Strategy

    We have six months done in 2012 and stock markets seem to have gone nowhere. I want to know what you think is going to happen for the next six months. Where will we be at the end of December? I’m asking you the question and giving you my answer…   So what’s your bet on…     TheUSStock Market?   I think the US stock market will finish on a positive note. The FEDseems to support economic growth by maintaining its interest rate at the minimum and …

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The Investing Fee That Makes a $300,000 Difference

Investing Strategy

    My best friend and I are both passionate about investing. We spend several hours a week reading, talking and debating finance topics. But among all financial topics, investing is definitely the most interesting! We recently had a debate about investment strategies with mutual funds (or discretionary investments) Vs ETF investing.   We both wanted to know what is the real difference in an investor’s pockets between managing his own funds and paying someone to do it …

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