What is Value Averaging?
Value averaging is an investment strategy that helps you grow your investments by meeting periodic targets. How exactly? By using a fancy formula that keeps you on something called a value path – more on that later. In a nutshell,…
2020 Gift Guide: 20 Gifts for Finance Geeks
Personal finance geeks can be particularly difficult to shop for. With a heart that seeks value and a brain that is constantly performing cost-benefit analyses, us finance geeks can be tricky to please. So, whether you’re a self-proclaimed personal finance…
Restricted Stock Units (RSU): What are they and what do they mean?
If you feel like learning about personal finance is akin to learning a foreign language, you’re not wrong. The amount of jargon and acronyms can make finance topics seem much more complicated than they really are. Fortunately, acronyms like RSUs…
The Best Net Worth Apps
Short on time? Here’s a quick list of the best net worth apps: The winner: Personal Capital Runner ups: Mint and NerdWallet’s Finance Tracker Honorable mention: YNAB (You Need a Budget) There are a lot of important numbers you need…
The Truth About Investment Risk
What is risk? Risk is the possibility of loss, injury, or negative outcome. We all face a degree of risk every single day. Every time you get into a car you are making a decision with an element of risk.…
Price vs. Cost – Why You Need to Know the Difference
What is price? This may seem like a silly question, but it is, in fact, important to understand what price is and what it isn’t. Price is the dollar amount stated on the sticker. For example, when you buy airfare…
7 Budget Tips for Beginners to Keep Yourself on Track
What is a budget? So, what is a budget? A budget is a broad term that encompasses the numerous ways in which you can plan for and track both your expenses and savings with the intent of meeting a specific…
How to Quit Hemorrhaging Money
Hemorrhaging money, bleeding money, wiping out your bank account. Whatever you want to call it, you’ve realized that you’ve been overspending…a lot. Now, what can you do about it? Hemorrhaging money happens for a variety of reasons Pressure from friends…
9 Ways to Learn New Skills Online
Whether you are looking to simply improve yourself or impress your boss, there is no shortage of platforms that can help you learn new skills from home. The accessibility and flexibility of these platforms truly mean that the world is…
Managing DINK (Dual Income No Kids) Finances
Move over Yuppie, there’s a new acronym vying for the spotlight. In case you forgot, Yuppie is in fact a slang term that stands for young upwardly mobile professional or young urban professional. However, it certainly wasn’t the first acronym…
