Month: July 2020

Financial independence is part of the American Dream. For some, it’s the result of years of hard work and diligently saving for retirement. For others, it comes from setting up passive income streams and figuring out creative ways to make money from little to no effort.

There are dozens – if not hundreds – of ways to achieve financial independence. And yet fewer and fewer of us are realizing that dream. Stanford researchers found that the majority of Americans aren’t saving anywhere near enough to achieve financial independence. And more and more people are working well past the traditional retirement age.
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It’s only natural that many investors, especially those who are new to the game, prefer to buy shares in ‘sexy’ stocks… …read more […]

U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc is adopting a performance review system that will grade up to 10% of its 39,000 employees as under-performers this year, according to an internal memo sent on Monday, potentially leading to more job cuts in 2021 than the bank has made in recent years. Goldman Sachs’ new head of human resources, Bentley de Beyer, who joined the bank in January, is revamping its opaque performance review process to make it more transparent and determine what proportion of staff is put in each grouping, said bank spokeswoman Leslie Shribman. The bank’s main …read more […]

Yahoo Finance’s Jessica Smith joins the On The Move panel to discuss the latest on The White House releasing details of the second stimulus package benefits this afternoon. …read more […]

Miller Value Partners recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Opportunity Equity Fund posted a return of 47.02% for the quarter (net of fees), outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 20.54% in the same quarter. You should check out Miller Value Partners’ top […] …read more […]

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Maybe Biden isn’t bad for stocks, suggests one Wall Street strategist. …read more […]

Yahoo Finance’s Adam Shapiro breaks down the stocks to watch Monday. …read more […]

Market forces rained on the parade of OrganiGram Holdings Inc. (TSE:OGI) shareholders today, when the analysts… …read more […]

When close to half the companies in the United States have price-to-earnings ratios (or “P/E’s”) above 18x, you may… …read more […]

Fitness-tracker firm Garmin came back online following a widespread outage that affected users worldwide. …read more […]

DraftKings’ stock slides after the MLB postponed its games. Yahoo Finance’s On The Move panel discusses. …read more […]

You can’t build wealth and make the most of out of your money without a financial independence plan. Yet, many Americans skip this step and aimlessly struggle to save money. Let’s take a step back and dive deeper into the most successful strategies to accumulating income and assets.
Financial independence and financial freedom go hand-in-hand. In fact, you can’t have one without the other. You can bridge the gap by saving as much as you can, creating a budget, eliminating your debt and investing wisely.

What is a Financial Independence Plan?
Do you ever feel like you are spending more money than you …read more […]