Aurora 3D Text & Logo Maker 14.09.09

Aurora 3D Text & Logo Maker is an advanced application intended to enable you to design 3D Text, buttons, logos. Features a large number of shapes and text template. There are reflections and texture animation effects, and a variety of quick tools, very easy to use. You can choose a variety of bevel and alignment, lighting can be adjusted, the shape can be interchangeable, very flexible. Can import the font shapes, and you can import SVG,...

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Sector Mutual Funds for Beginners

Often, the best way to protect your family's investment portfolio is to know what you don't know.  For those of you who prefer to invest in individual stocks, this means avoiding companies that you are unable to understand, or that utilize accounting methods on the income statement and balance sheet with which you are not, yet, familiar.  That way, you can behave like a true long-term investor,...

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Roth IRA vs Mutual Funds

Countless times a year, I receive messages from new investors asking something alone the lines of, "Should I invest in a Roth IRA or mutual funds?".  The question can't be answered because a Roth IRA is not a type of investment.  A Roth IRA is a type of account.  You can hold investments such as stocks, bonds, cash, and, yes, even mutual funds, within a Roth IRA. Different types of institutions...

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How to Find the Best Dividend Mutual Funds

If you've read this site for awhile, you know that dividends can be a great way to generate passive income, and mutual funds can be a good option for new investors who don't want to handle the decision of selecting individual stocks for their portfolio.  The next logical step for a lot of people is to consider dividend mutual funds.  These are funds that specifically focus on holding a portfolio of stocks...

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What Are The Easiest Ways to Track My Investments?

For more than a decade, the best option for the typical investor who wanted to track investments was a software program called Microsoft Money.  It allowed average men and women to track their portfolio of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit.  It was capable of keeping records on the individual account basis, such as for a specific 401(k) or Roth IRA, as well as the entire household....

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Don't Lead Your Real Team Like You Manage Your Fantasy Football Team

Published 8/15/2014 My apologies to readers that have zero interest in American football, or more specifically, fantasy football. Even though this article contains good advice for the non-football fan, it will probably annoy the heck out of them. This article is written for the 36 million fantasy football players out there, some of who may also be in positons to lead real people. Here’s my message for all of you: don’t even think of...

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Business-Like Investing Can Help You Pick Better Long-Term Stocks

The high priest of value investing himself, Benjamin Graham, taught us that, “investing is most successful when it is most business like.”  That makes sense because investing in stocks is, quite literally, the act of buying an ownership stake in businesses.  Whether you own 100% of the shares of a local jewelry store in your hometown, or 1,000/4,405,893,150th of The Coca-Cola Company based on its total shares outstanding in...

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