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War’s impact, learning from earnings
War’s uncertainty has riled financial markets, Kyle Tetting explains. Earnings season could offer some clarity or gloom.
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Protect your wealth from cyber scams
Lisa Lewitzke offers tips to guard against attempts to trick you out of financial information. […]
Financial literacy test – The answers
Test your financial literacy See how you did answering questions in this financial literacy test devised by researchers at George Washington University and the University of Pennsylvania. The correct answers are in bold. 1. Suppose you had $100 in a savings account and the interest rate was 2% per year. After 5 years, how much…
Mutual Fund 101 Quiz – The answers
Check your answers to the Mutual Fund 101 Quiz below. Click on the links beneath each group of answers to see the related Money Talk Videos. To peruse all of the Mutual Fund 101 videos, click here on Landaas.com or here on the Landaas Money Talk YouTube channel. 1. Academic research has credited more than 90% of…
The right mix of investments
By Bob Landaas I spent an hour recently with a client who was wondering about the right stock/bond mix. It’s an important question. Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported on research showing that since 1926, if you were invested 100% in stocks, you would have made 10% a year. If you had 60% in stocks, 40% in bonds, you would have made 9%. […]
Expressing gratitude
Through November, the stock market was on track for one of the 20 top annual returns since the 1929 stock market crash. In a MONEY TALK VIDEO, Bob Landaas talks about what that could mean for charitable giving. […]