A personal wealth plan lays the foundation for building wealth but many investors aren’t sure of the steps. Are you wondering how to create a wealth plan? The steps are clarifying your desired lifestyle, updating net worth to see if you’re currently on track to build the wealth you need to live how you want, …
The more income streams you have the better, right? This is not necessarily true. How many income streams should you have? It have depends on your goals, available time, types of income streams, available capital, taxes, demonstrated success, income reliability, and desired lifestyle. In this post I’ll share what I’ve learned in each of these …
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Net worth tracks your wealth building progress so it’s important that your net worth be calculated accurately. Often there is confusion how home values affect net worth. Does your net worth include your home? It should include the current value of your home less any amount of debt you have on your home. There are …
Very deep down have you ever thought that you may cause your own financial problems? If you’re wondering how to rewire your brain for success, the steps are to own the current problem, identify the source of the problem, resolve your feelings about the problem, and choose to no longer live from the past. In …
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It’s been said keeping wealth is harder than getting wealth. You may be wondering how to keep your wealth safe. Cyber security, mail fraud, bear markets, liabilities, leverage and lack of diversification all pose risk for your wealth. In this post, I’ll address 11 ways to help keep your wealth safe from each of these lurking …
Most advice for how to increase net worth is geared toward investors with decades to save and compound wealth in the stock market. If you’re an investor over 50, it could be too late for that strategy before retirement. But you can increase net worth by taking advantage of cycles in stocks or real estate, …
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Are you asking yourself the same question I asked myself over a decade ago? Is it too late to become an entrepreneur? If you can profitably serve those you want to serve through your business, then it is not too late to become an entrepreneur whether you’re over 50 or over 70! My husband and …
Updated August 8, 2019 Investing in bonds definitely has risks, contrary to what many investors think. Just what are the risk of bond investments? They include interest rate risk, default risk, inflation risk, call risk and economic risk. The fact that bonds are used to offset risk from stocks, and the very long bull market …
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Income investing comes with both risks and rewards, just like all investments. The risks of income investing in bonds includes interest rate risk, default risk, inflation risk and more. And for stock income investors, there is bear market risk and political risk. Both bond and stock income investors face company or entity specific risk and …
You may be wondering how to know if stocks will go up or go down so you can invest with greater certainty about the overall direction of stocks. In general, stocks go up when earnings are increasing or expected to increase, and stocks go down when earnings decrease or are expected to decrease. Other factors …
If you’re playing catch up retirement savings, here are 59 wealth building tips and solutions that can radically change late retirement planning. After personally making thousands of investments among stocks, bonds, funds, and real estate, both with and without financial advisors over the past 40 years, and creating alternative income streams to replace career income …
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Updated Nov 5, 2021 Are you considering a new investment or evaluating investments that you already own? The foundation for evaluating an investment begins with simple and practical assessments that relate to your personal financial goals. To evaluate an investment, the following criteria should be met in alignment with a defined overall investment plan: acceptable …
How Much Money Do You Need to Retire? Are you trying to estimate that epic number which equates to financial independence for life? How much money you need to retire can be estimated based 5 important factors: your expenses, income sources, net worth, expected investment returns, and inflation. In this post, I’ll address each …
Updated May 2020 You may find yourself in the fortunate situation of having wealth, yet you may feel uncertain about how to manage wealth, having never really been wealthy before now. Taking care of your wealth is sort of like parenting. You don’t know how until you’ve already done it but you feel like …
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If you’re thinking of hiring a financial advisor, you may be wondering what unexpected problems you might face after you start working with him. Research shows some of the more common unforeseen problems after hiring a financial advisor come from higher than anticipated fees, poor customer service, lack of personalized service, poor investment track …
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Investing can seem very complicated if you’re not familiar with all the financial lingo. If you’re wondering how to understand your investments, these 3 steps will get you well on your way. Your money is divided among into stocks, bonds and cash type investments based on your goals, desired risk and time frame. The stocks …
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You may be at a point where you’re wondering if you should manage your own money or hire a financial advisor. After using several financial advisors, and also managing my own money over the years, I learned that there are some good reasons to invest yourself. This includes lower costs, alternative investing, overall returns and …
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Most articles about wealth building after 50 have tips with a minimal impact on true financial independence. If you’re over 50 and far short of reaching your big retirement number, it’s time to take some serious steps beyond investing pocket change and cutting out lattes. While these aren’t bad ideas, they ’re not going to …
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Stocks dividends are an easy way to get passive income, but it takes a lot of capital to make a significant amount since dividend rates are low for most stocks. I bought my first dividend oriented mutual fund at Fidelity Investments almost 40 years ago, and I’ve owned many dividend stocks since then. Is Dividend …
Starting an online business after 50 may sound intimidating but it can be a brilliant move to build wealth without capital. I have learned firsthand that this is true even if you’re not tech savvy or a millennial. The reality is that it gets easier every day to build an online business given all of …
Imagine if you were one of the very first investors in Facebook, Apple or Uber. If this seems crazy, remember that every company needs startup capital, and individual investors can now participate in startup funding easier than ever. Investing in startups for individuals now has many options, including online startup companies that match investors with …
Like many people, you may have seen that you want or need to increase your income in the second half of life. Here are 115 businesses to start later in life to give you lots of ideas. None of these business ideas need much capital to get started. Many require no capital at all, while …
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Investors spend most of their lives concentrating on investing for growth vs investing for income. The way to generate more income from investments, then, is to simply shift your overall objective from growth to income. Here are 44 ways to get more income from your investments ranging from stock dividends to alternative income investments, such …
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Are you tired of seeing the passive income ads with the rented Ferrari parked in front of someone else’s mansion? It leads one to ask: Is passive income real? The answer is yes, passive income is real, with these important caveats below which no one mentions. In this post I’ll share some truths for income …
Are you concerned about having enough money to retire? Does it seem impossible to reach your retirement income goal? I get it! About a decade ago, after facing the realization that income from stocks and bonds alone may not sustain our standard of living for life, we set a retirement income goal to replace our …
Are you thinking of moving to a smaller or less expensive home? Lately, as I get older, I’ve been asking myself “Is downsizing right for me?” The benefits of downsizing are many. Maybe you want to reduce stress, lower expenses, or just have an easier lifestyle before retirement. In this post, I’ll share the process …
Does it seem like you could never create a profitable website among the millions of online businesses? And is it too late to start an online business? About fifteen years ago I was wondering the same thing and exploring the best online business for midlife and beyond. In this post, I’ll share why it’s not …
Millions of people are spending most of their time doing work they don’t enjoy with one burning question on the back of their mind every day: How Much Longer Until I Can Retire? The simple answer is you can retire when you have either a high enough net worth, or have excess income to cover …
There is wealth building, and there is wealth keeping. Both matter. In this post, you’ll get 33 wealth building steps that are useful if you want to accumulate more wealth from any level, and to feel more in control of your financial destiny. My financial coaching clients often think the answer to building wealth will …
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Investing in the stock market can be unsettling, especially after stock prices have climbed sky high. At any given time, I ask myself “How will a stock market crash affect me?” To get a very reasonable estimate for how much my net worth will decline in the next stock market crash I do this simple …
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Managing your wealth is like raising children: You don’t know how to do it because you’ve never done it. By the time you know how to raise children, the kids are grown. Managing wealth is similar. Here are 9 wealth management tips that will help you keep and grow your money while enjoying the journey. Don’t …
Do you live with an ongoing but subtle fear that you’ll run out of money? And does that fear get louder with each passing year? In this post, I’ll share how to not outlive your money. Taking action on the right steps for where you are right now will help calm your fears. Don’t Assume …
Does interest off 1 million dollars seem like it would provide plenty of income for life? In this article, I’m going to show you how much interest income you’ll get from a million dollars. Let’s face it; a million dollars sounds cool. So we’ll use it as the foundation for this post. Many people spend …
Are you wondering what investment strategies you can use to lower your risk while increasing your returns? In this post, I’ll share five investment strategies that one of the top financial advisors uses to build wealth safely for his clients while also generating income. Many years ago, my dad taught me to investigate where and …
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Have you heard that the past reliable retirement withdrawal strategies don’t work anymore? Well, there is good news, and bad news around that rumor. The good news is that retirement withdrawal strategies can work for those seeking to withdraw 1 to 4% a year from their investment accounts as a passive source of funds. The bad …
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If you’re wondering how to build wealth, you’re not alone! In this article, I’ll share five methods for how to build wealth. Each of these strategies I have personally done. While every attempt hasn’t succeeded, I’ve learned the most from the ventures that didn’t go well. It goes without saying that the more money you …
Are you ready to begin retirement income planning? In this post, I’ll present the steps to an innovative retirement income planning process that’s different from the norm. This is the approach that we decided to develop and use in late midlife after being thrown a few curve balls. These curve balls are also known as …
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Are you searching for income producing assets that pay you consistently, often, and much more than the low dividend rate that you get from a stock portfolio nowadays? In this article, I’ll share with you 9 income producing assets. We are currently using all but one of these income producing assets as of this post, …
You may be wondering how to live off investments, especially in this day and age of extremely low interest rates when your investments don’t earn much income. Individuals live off investments in one of three ways: spending investment savings and it’s growth or income, spending only the income generated from investments, or living off a …
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Should your investment portfolio have 90% in stocks and bonds and 10% in cash? Or should it have 60% in stocks and bonds and 30% in cash? The commonly recommended percentage for buy and hold portfolio cash is ten to fifteen percent based on an age appropriate asset allocation model. Tactical investors and financial advisors, …
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