Who Should, and Should Not, Convert a Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA?

April 8, 2012

Convert a Traditonal IRA to a Roth? Whether an investor should convert a traditional ira to a roth ira depends on the IRA owner’s specific circumstances and assumptions. With the income limit on converting from a Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA eliminated every investor should consider whether it is to their advantage to convert. [...]

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Weekend Reading #12 – Finance & Investing Links

April 6, 2012

Weekend Reading   This Week on the AAAMP Blog: Different Types of Cash Flow for Investment Analysis Money Proverbs – Best Quotes and Sayings about Investment Cavalcade of Risk #154 – Healthcare Mandate Edition   Interesting Posts Around the Blogosphere: The Danger Zone – Capital Observer Pulling it Together – Mondustrial Policy – Investing School [...]

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Cavalcade of Risk #154 – Healthcare Mandate Edition

April 3, 2012

Healthcare Mandate and Risk Transfer I am pleased to host the Cavalcade of Risk, particularly the week after the Supreme Court heard arguments on the healthcare insurance mandate. I love the subject of risk. As an investment portfolio manager I’m usually thinking about investment risk. But I have irritated my family many times with my [...]

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Money Proverbs – Best Quotes and Sayings about Investment

April 2, 2012

Money Quotes and Sayings I enjoy collecting money proverbs and passing them on to AAAMP Blog readers. Not only are they fun, but they give us genuine truths or advice that provide an investment lesson:   In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to [...]

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Different Types of Cash Flow for Investment Analysis

April 1, 2012

Cash Flow for Investment Analysis Are you ever confused by the different types of cash flow for investment analysis?  I know I get them confused and I’m a seasoned investor. However, cash flow calculations provide information on profitability, quality of earnings, liquidity, risks, capital requirements, future growth, dividends, etc. They are one of the most [...]

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Weekend Reading #11 – Finance & Investing Links

March 30, 2012

Weekend Reading – Finance & Investing Links  It was an interesting week watching the Supreme Court listening to arguments on one of the most important decisions in decades. I hope you find my Weekend Reading suggestions both interesting and valuable:  This Week on the AAAMP Blog: Planning Investment Accounts For Retirement Roth IRA Movement: What’s [...]

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Self Directed Investing For Retirement – March Madness Issue

March 28, 2012

March Madness and Spring Fever As spring fever hits and productivity plummets due to March Madness, you can be on the winning team by staying focused when others aren’t. Here is our biggest carnival yet! Portfolio Management Tim at Faith and Finance give us “5 Business Lessons Learned from Monopoly”. Monopoly is good family fun [...]

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Roth IRA Movement: What’s So Great about the Roth IRA?

March 26, 2012

Time to Save Using a Roth IRA? The greatest benefits of the Roth IRA are tax-free compounding and tax-free income in retirement. It was the idea of Jeff Rose at Good Financial Cents: Start a Roth IRA Movement to educate young people about the benefits of the Roth IRA.  Today, over 135 blogs will participate [...]

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Planning Investment Accounts for Retirement

March 25, 2012

Planning Investment Retirement Accounts Planning investment accounts for retirement is an important foundation for a successful retirement plan. Using the advantages provided by the different types of investment accounts can be the difference between a mediocre retirement and a well-funded retirement. Today we are going to discuss the major investment accounts for retirement and look [...]

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Weekend Reading #10 – Finance & Investing Links

March 23, 2012

Weekend Reading   This Week on the AAAMP Blog: Solutions to Manage Investment Risk and Market Returns Fundamental and Technical Analysis: What is the Difference? What is Operating Cash Flow?   Interesting Posts Around the Blogosphere: 100 Words On: Confusing Equal Opportunity with Equal Outcome – Len Penzo dot Com Asset Allocation vs. Consistency – [...]

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