What does Dave Ramsey mean when he recommends dividing your mutual fund investments equally between the “four good growth stock mutual fund categories"?

This year you want to start saving outside your 401(k) for retirement and for other big things like a new car, the big anniversary trip, and to help your kids out for college. How can you trust an advisor to give you straight answers in your best interest? Use these 5 interview questions to find an advisor you can trust.

As human beings we love to follow the trend. Suffice it to say most investors would not be pleased with their investment return if they did.

If there was someone out there that could accurately predict what the stock market was going to do, wouldn’t everyone have their money with that person? To take it a step further wouldn’t that expert stock picker just keep that knowledge to him or herself and profit immensely?

There are going to be winners every year and there are going to be losers every year, and someone is going to luck into outperforming the broad market index for a short period of time. But if picking winning stocks is hard…identifying that lucky manager is nearly impossible.