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10 Types of Companies to Avoid Investing in
"What stocks should I invest in?" You've probably asked this question many times. Maybe you've even googled it in frustration. But there's another question you should ask (or google) first, and that's: "What should I avoid investing in?" There are two reasons why this...
The World’s Top 10 Value Investors – And How to Copy Them
When you learn to invest in the stock market, you can take a major shortcut. You can copy other people's investments. That's exactly what Warren Buffett did when he first started out. He copied his professor Benjamin Graham's investments, and later on, his investing...
Seven Things Warren Buffett Can Teach You About Living a Good Life
When Warren Buffett speaks, people listen. He is, after all, one of the best investors the world has ever seen. His quotes on investing are famous. But what does he say about living a good life? I believe you become a better investor by copying more than just his...
Ten Things Rich People Teach Their Kids About Money
You're shopping for groceries when your kid begs you to buy a toy that he or she has spotted while you were walking around looking for organic oatmeal. The kid says in a whiny voice: "But all my best friends have it." Or. "But you NEVER buy me anything!" What do you...
Seven Ways to Secure Your Financial Future as an Entrepreneur
Many entrepreneurs neglect their personal finances even though their businesses are doing well. They are focused, determined and make money - but their own savings and bank accounts are a disaster. So what's going on and what should they do about it? They're so...
Five Ways to Make Investing More Fun
Some people find any dealings with their finances as tiring as flossing their teeth. It's not exactly what they look forward to doing on a Friday night after the kids have fallen asleep. Other people enjoy looking up stock symbols and researching companies, and they...
Seven Mindset Hacks Rich People Use
Becoming wealthy has a lot to do with your mindset. The way you think about money really determines how much of it you make, keep and make productive. If you see abundance, freedom and unlimited opportunities, you've set the path towards wealth. But if you see...
Five Signs That it’s Time to Leave Your Job
You're back from the summer vacation, and you get the Monday Blues. Maybe you ask yourself if it's time to leave your job. You ask yourself if you want to continue doing what you did before the holidays. Its normal to struggle a bit with adjusting to the indoor office...
Five Things to Do to Plan for Losing Your Job
I've been there. I was fired on maternity leave a few years ago. I never thought that would happen to me. But it did. Job security is not what it used to be. Most of us will experience getting fired at least once in our lifetime. That's why you should plan for it....
The 7 Money Lessons Most People Learn too Late in Life
I have spent most of my life studying, dealing with and writing about money, but my kids' experiences are limited to playing shop keepers in a sandpit. Their financial future is already unfolding as I am investing for them, but one day they will have to manage their...
Stop Wasting Money on These Seven Things if You Want Wealth and Freedom
It's a dilemma. You want to live a rich and juicy life right now, but you also want to put money aside so you can create assets and watch your garden of investments grow. How do you save money without lowering your quality of life? First of all, you have to realize...
How to Stomach the Volatility in the Stock Market
To be a successful investor you have to avoid the natural human instinct to follow the herd. When the stock market goes down, your natural tendency is going to be to want to sell, and when the stock market is going up, your natural tendency is going to be to want to...
What Guy Spier Can Teach You About Life And Investing
He began his career as a Gordon Gekko wannabe, but changed his mind and his life and became a value investor who models Warren Buffett. Guy Spier wrote the book The Education of a Value Investor about the journey he went through as a human being and as an investor....
Eight Simple Investing Rules from Guy Spier
Before pilots take off, they have procedures, rules and check lists that they follow in order to make sure that the flight is safe and smooth. Have you ever considered adopting rules and check lists for your investing practice? I suggest you do, and you don't have to...
Five Investing Reads for a Stormy Summer Stock Market
Summer is here and so are - hopefully - lazy days with relaxation and more time to read. But is the stock market going on vacation, or will the current turbulence continue over the summer? What can you read to gain more faith and learn more about the mechanisms at...
How to Overcome the Fear of Stock Investing
Being careful is important... but never getting started is a tragedy. If you are letting fear of losing money keep you from investing at all, you need to read this blog post. You should know that investing can trigger many strong emotional responses like fear, greed,...
Which Level of Stock Mastery Are You at?
Not so long ago, I went to have dinner with some of my friends. One of them asked me how I was doing, and for a while the topic fell on stock investing - because that's what I do. The way my friends reacted reminds me of the four levels of mastery. To master something...
How to Fight Greed and the Fear of Missing Out in the Stock Market
Stocks are rising, and even your hair dresser brags about her extraordinary return. She plans to retire next year and live the rest of her life drinking cocktails in Bahamas. You know very well that anyone can brag about extraordinary returns at the end of a long...
Your Guide to Handling Money Issues with Friends
Some years ago I lent a friend money to buy her family tickets to the circus, and just today, it popped into my mind that she never repaid me. Any problem with that? Well, yes. I lent her the money more than 20 years ago. The money is gone. But it still pops up...
What Warren Buffett says about the Virus and a Possible Stock Market Crash
What is the world's best investor doing during this pandemic? So far, not much except dumping airline stocks as if they were on fire. Just recently, the legendary investor Warren Buffett spent hours answering questions from his investors. It was a very unusual annual...
How to Avoid the Top Seven Beginner Investing Mistakes
A lot of new investors are entering the stock market these days. They are pushed by negative interest rates and lured by the success others have had in a very long bull market. But with market volatility running high, these are uncertain times to be a newbie in the...
Five Signs That we are Entering a Global Recession
We are in the middle of a global pandemic and many countries are still in a tight lockdown. Yet, stocks are still historically expensive. Does that make sense? If you ask me, it doesn't. Some experts try to explain the market's happy-go-lucky mood with some lengthy...
Three Steps to Calming Your Itchy Trigger Finger
When stocks are volatile, you might develop an itchy trigger finger. You might even have that finger control your stock purchases more than you do. It's not uncommon for people to buy and sell spontaneously as stocks move up and down. The danger here is that you'll...
How to Make Saving Fun
Without savings there is no investing. Savings are where your journey towards financial freedom begins. Some people are natural born savers, and others find it excruciating. Which type are you? I think I am a little bit of both. As a child, I enjoyed counting my coins...
How to Make Decisions in Life and Investing
How many decisions do you make every single day? Decisions like which socks to wear with your outfit, which jam to put on your morning toast, which route to take to work, which calls to make at the office, which emails to answer (and which to ignore), what to prepare...
Why You Have to Begin Investing Now
"Money loves speed," she used to say. She was my coach and I was contemplating which name to use for my website. When I asked her a question, I could feel her voice go flat. She would say: "Just get on with it. Remember. Time is money." The question I would ask was....
How to Invest During a Crisis
It's a dilemma. It's one of the best times to invest, but also daunting. Some wonderful companies are on sale on the stock market right now for less than they are really worth, and you can get a high return on your money if you invest it wisely. However shops,...
Three Reasons to Invest Even if You Have Debt
Should you pay off all your debt, before you begin to invest in stocks? This questions pops up often, and the answer depends on your situation. If you have a lot of debt, and if it's very expensive debt like credit card debt, then the answer is no. Pay your debt...
How to Become Financially Independent
The recipe for creating true freedom in your life is simple. The first step is to make sure that your expenses are lower than your income. You can either adjust your expenses or increase your income. Then you can invest the difference in assets. What are assets? An...
