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Why Investments Are Good

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Wifey and I are ready to make “family” investment decisions now and we are doing our homework. I recently was reminded how good investments were:
97% of the 5-year periods in the entire market history made money
100% of the 10-year periods in the entire market history made moneyAll 5 or 10 year periods in the market’s […]

Real Estate Time

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

I love real estate. In fact my major while in school was literally in Financial Management with a concentration in Real Estate. I am so interested in it.
Wifey and I made a decision that we would rent for the first year of marriage. We made a pros and cons list and actively […]

Are you under 25?

Friday, September 5th, 2008

A little college student/young professional spotlight.
Are you investing yet?
$100/month at 12% return for 40 years is $48,000 invested but is worth $1,176,477!
You should do this. I just made you a millionaire for just $100/month!
If you are saying, “I don’t have $100/month thats crazy.” Go get a job and work like 3-4 hours a week (or […]

You’ve got a friend in Compound Interest

Friday, August 15th, 2008

If you invest $100 a month for the next 40 years you will have invested $48,000 by the end of it.
After 40 years of compound interest that $100 a month would be $1,176,477.25!!!
(This calculation was done with the assumption of the market average over the last 75 years, 12%)
I think most people could plan to […]

Investing

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I have recently been doing maintenance to my “investment portfolio.” It is rather simple at this point, however, I am looking at funds and trying to do further research for the Kakaras family investments.
Every once in a while I get wigged out because I am a big fan of not losing money. One thing that […]