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Don’t panic though. Here are some 5 tips to help you survive: 1. People are living longer: Males that reach the age of 65 nowadays will have a 49% chance of living to 86. Women will have a 49% chance of living to age 89. With that in mind, it’s obvious that you will still need the help of equities (stocks and stock mutual funds) to help you grow your portfolio and keep ahead of taxes and inflation. Don’t abandon these investments. 2. Rebalance where necessary. Take a look at your portfolio winners. If you had targeted say 20% in international and it is now 30% of your portfolio. Sell enough to bring it back down to 20% and use that cash to invest in another sector that you don’t own. Remember that you don’t have a realized loss until you sell. Take just enough of a loss to offset the gain that you took above, and then you will pay no tax on the transaction. 3. Diversify. Don’t have any winners? Then you weren’t diversified enough to begin with. You should have had enough in each asset …

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I was recently reminded of a great concept that I learned about when I was a teenager. If a person were to take one dollar, invest the dollar in an asset and then sell the asset for two dollars, they will have taken the first step in a 20 month process of accumulating a million dollars. The only habit that would need to be created is the habit of doubling the amount in hand every month for 20 months. The final amount at the end of each month would be: Start - $1 Month 1 - $2 Month 2 - $4 Month 3 - $8 Month 4 - $16 Month 5 - $32 Month 6 - $64 Month 7 - $128 Month 8 - $256 Month 9 - $512 Month 10 - $1024 Month 11 - $2048 Month 12 - $4096 Month 13 - $8192 Month 14 - $16384 Month 15 - $32768 Month 16 - $65536 Month 17 - $131072 Month 18 - $262144 Month 19 - $524288 Month 20 - $1048576 Obviously the model is very simple and the idea is basic enough for anyone to grasp, however, I would like to expand on the underlying psychology of this concept. Let’s imagine that we wer …

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On the process of your child growing up, you often tell him/her that they must study hard and work hard to earn a stable income. You advice your children to not be like you. What happen in the near future is unpredictable but you really hope that your children can make the difference. Well, that sounds like a person who gives up their goals and dreams to be a millionaire. In the first place, why do you have to hope that your children will be someone who is successful? True enough that you invest all your money in your child s education, but can you control your children s success. If you really desire to be a millionaire, the only person that can make that change is you. You do not pass on your failure to your next generation for them to conquer it. Let face this fact, your children will see you as their model and they will do the same thing when they have their own children; to pass their failure to the next generation and hope. I am very confident to say that financial freedom can b …

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If you decide you want to add or delete games, this can be done quickly as well. Whether you’re looking to store only your favorite games or every single game you own, a Fire Card will work for you. What you’ll need to decide on is the amount of storage capacity you’re looking for. If you only play one or two games, then all you need is a card with a small capacity. If you have several games that you enjoy playing, then you’ll definitely need to invest in a card with a larger capacity, especially a 16Gbit one. This will enable you to store as many games as you want. If you only have a few games now, but know you’ll be getting quite a few more games in the future, then the more storage space you have, the better. Is it really as simple as inserting the Fire Card into your DS? Yes, after you have downloaded and transferred your games using a DS Fire Link. The Fire Link is what enables you to store your games. When you have this taken care of, then all you do is put the Fire Card into Sl …

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I was hearkening back to the good old days of playing Links on my MAC back in the 90s. Golf video games are important to me, a man who has played real golf once in his life and shot a respectable 85…on the front 9. After about a week of playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour I was somewhat shocked by what Microsoft was offering me as a player through XBOX live. I wasn’t sure I really wanted to go out and blow $40-$60 on a Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, so I had picked up last year’s title Tiger Woods 08 figuring if I got my $15.00 worth out of it I would invest in the latest and greatest incarnation. Tiger Woods 08 is actually a pretty damned nice golf simulation for what I’m used to. While it still has the standard “click meter” system that goes as far back as the earliest golf games I played, the current gen game gives you free swinging using the analog stick, which is the bees knees so to speak. There’s a range of different play modes from tournaments, standard PGA tour schedules, challenge ladd …

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There are also many get rich quick gimmicks that are hyped up to make you think that they are an instant ticket to real wealth. The problem with these kinds of programs is that 99.9% of people who do get rich do not ever join these kinds of programs. SO, HOW DO YOU GET RICH? First of all, you have to make sure that you acquire the mindset that will make your rich. If your thoughts are not in line with your desire to make big money, then you never will. You have to train your mind so that it easily spots an opportunity and also so that you do not fall for any of these get rich quick gimmicky products or programs. The only real way to get rich is to invest in something that will make you wealthy. Whether it is stocks or bonds or a business, getting rich always requires some sort of investment on your part. You may have to put up some money at the beginning. That is normal. It dose not however, necessarily require a large amount of money. When you have acquired the state of …

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Basically, a ponzi scheme (named after its clever inventor) is a scam where enormous profits are promised and the greedy get their claws into it to invest. There is no productive effort behind the promised profits, because the next in line investors are sucked in to provide the “profits” for the suckers who came in earlier. Nice move. The only downside is that it may lead to a lot of free lunches at the government’s hotels (also known as jails). Who said there’s no such thing as a free lunch? With that in mind there’s not much point in looking at the upside, is there? Hedge funds were doing gangbuster for quite a few years. These are the guys who play Las Vegas with other people’s shares. Not much room for us there. Las Vegas brings the idea of trying to make money at the casinos. No joke. Some poor (no pun intended) individuals actually go to these places feeding the insane illusion that they’re going to come out on top! Money make fast? You laugh - it’s tragic - especially when you …

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