INVESTING

• The Myth of Compound Interest
  Compound interest is worthless if there's nothing to compound. In other words, the importance of compound interest is secondary to how much a person saves and how often.
• Invest Like an Entrepreneur
  Most individual investors in the stock market don't realize that they're only earning an average of 5-10% per year before taxes and commissions, and then only if they remain invested for 25 or more years.
• How to Protect Your Investment Portfolio from the Voracious Sale
  No matter what the investment you're making, a sales expert is always on the other end of the negotiating table closing the deal with you. These people are highly skilled and trained in the techniques that get other people to hand over their money. That's what they do for a living. They're working in their own (or their employer's) best interest, not yours. They must meet a quota of sales in order to avoid losing their jobs.
• Taking the Reins of Your Investment Portfolio
  "Buy and hold" is alleged to be a favored philosophy among many of the world's greatest investors, but that is an erroneous assumption. Buy and hold was a successful strategy years ago, when most investors were savvy institutional investors and commissions were so high as to dissuade frequent trading.