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Close a Credit Card without Killing your Credit Score

Most people know that closing a credit card that is no longer used can potentially damage your credit score. Unfortunately, this knowledge often keeps consumers trembling in fear of closing credit card accounts. And as a result, they hang on to cards they should have

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Caution: Read This Before You Tap Into Your 401(k)

Borrowing from your 401(k) may seem like a good idea when an emergency or unexpected expense arises, however, tapping into your retirement savings may be more trouble than it’s worth. Normally we’d all prefer to have enough room in our monthly budgets and daily savings

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Budgeting Tips to Prepare for the Holiday Shopping Season

Are you excited for the holidays – gifts, lights, entertaining, dinners and decorations? You are not alone. Many Americans love to celebrate the holidays, but few enjoy the financial pinch you experience after holiday spending well into the new year. If you don’t want to

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Balancing Risk and Reward within Your Retirement Strategy

Even the best laid retirement plans are at risk for monetary losses or unexpected complications. As we saw back in 2008, a major stock market crash could bankrupt your pension plan, high inflation rates could eat away at your savings faster than you’d planned for

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Are You Ready to Start Investing?

Making the decision to begin investing your hard earned money in the stock market is a big step towards reaching your long-term financial goals. Many of you are doing so in order to increase your retirement income, grow your personal wealth and maintain the level

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A First-Time Home Buyers Guide to Closing

If you’re a first-time home buyer, you’ve got questions. You might be a little nervous about spending making one of the most important financial decisions of your life. Now that your purchase offer has been accepted, the next question you might want to know is

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A Beginners Guide to Investing in Gold

Buying precious metals, particularly gold and silver, are a very common investment strategy. Perhaps no other asset has had such widespread appeal as gold; and this appeal has increased due to the systemic risk facing our modern global financial system and economy. Many beginner investors

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6 Ways You Could Be Mismanaging Your Retirement Funds

More and more baby boomers are leaving the workforce to enjoy their golden years each day, but how many are actually financially secure for the entirety of their retirement? Financial advisors are seeing new retirees make the same, avoidable mistakes year after year. When you’re

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5 Keys to Successful Investing

Whether you want to save for retirement, buy a home, go on vacation or build wealth to pass onto your children, investing offers the best means to achieve your long-term financial goals. Investing requires taking risks, and your success depends in part on your ability

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