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Retirement Planning Mistake #1

October 25, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Mistake number one in my book is failure to save or to not follow The Golden Rule of Investing.  Open up a spreadsheet and run your own calculations for the following classic comparison. As a nineteen year old you have the foresight and financial opportunity to save $2,000 per year

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Retirement Planning Mistake #2

October 26, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Prospective investors carry too much credit card debt.  This mistake is a corollary of Mistake #1.  Stay out of credit card (CC) debt.  Mistake #2 is not so much an investor mistake, but rather a mistake of bad management as it has nothing to do with managing a portfolio.  If

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Retirement Planning Mistake #3

October 28, 2013 By Lowell Herr

  This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to nearly 20 000 degrees Celsius. The gas is tearing across space at more than 950 000 kilometres per hour — fast enough

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Retirement Planning Mistake #4

October 29, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Investors lack knowledge about the importance of asset allocation.  Investors do not educate themselves as to the importance of asset allocation, and what asset classes tend to perform better than others over the long-run. I need not go into the importance of overcoming this mistake as I have written extensively

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Retirement Planning Mistake #5

October 30, 2013 By Lowell Herr

This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to nearly 20 000 degrees Celsius. The gas is tearing across space at more than 950 000 kilometres per hour — fast enough to

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Retirement Planning Mistake #6

October 31, 2013 By Lowell Herr

 It is a mistake to think your portfolio is properly diversified simply because you have chosen stocks or index funds across differing sectors. That’s not enough.  Investing across all sectors will not coverall asset classes, but investing across all asset classes will cover all sectors.  There is a big

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Retirement Planning Mistake #7

November 1, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Lack of Portfolio Plan Do you have a portfolio plan and is it written down?  If you can lay your hands on a plan, you are a rare investor.  What is involved in specifying a Strategic Asset Allocation plan? A portfolio plan will first of all identify all the asset

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Retirement Planning Mistake #8

November 2, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Over confident and lacks patience. Over confidence and lack of patience manifests itself in a number of ways. If you think you can beat the market by picking individual stocks, be very careful.  If you want to test your skills, set up two portfolios.  Use a passive approach with one

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