What Fantasy Football Can Teach You About Investing

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If you’re like me, you recently drafted players for your Fantasy Football team. As you sat online with thousands of other fans and fanatics scattered nationwide, chatting about and nabbing the best running backs, quarterback and kickers for your imaginary team, you may feel you learn little about investing. Wrong call.

Fantasy Football is a billion dollar business that has more to do with investing than you might think.  The thought process involved with picking and managing your team can be similar to investing in your 401(k).

Here are mistakes to avoid on the make-believe gridiron and in our very real stock market.

Is It Time To Make Changes to Your Investment Portfolio?

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The stock market has taken us for an emotional ride during the past couple of months, and you may be asking yourself if you should make changes to your investment portfolio.  While changing strategies can be a good idea, it’s better to base those decisions on analysis and in the context of your long-term investment plan rather than on emotion.  Before changing your investments, consider whether or not your response is an overreaction to the news.

It is always good to review your portfolio on a quarterly or annual basis to make sure you are on track to reach your goals.

Click here for the questions you should ask yourself when thinking about making changes to your investments.

How to Keep This Crazy Stock Market From Driving You Nuts

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So, how do you stop the market from making you crazy?

The current market is a reminder that days sometimes feel long, while years pass quickly. Don’t confuse that feeling and make long-term moves based on what’s happening on any given day. That’s how years pass and you wind up short of your goals, when the odds were in your favor that staying the course would have paid off.

Read more by clicking here.

Survival Tips for Bear Markets

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What is a bear market?  Bear markets are normal, but not predominant.  Statistically, we are overdue. The most recent bear market ended in March 2009 — more than six years ago.

Learn how to survive the Bear Markets here.

How to Tell If You Are Ready to Retire

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Most people’s finances would be improved by another year spent in the workforce, but you also don’t want to work for so long that you don’t have time to enjoy the things you want to do in retirement.  Here’s how to tell if you are ready to leave the working world behind.

Make sure you do these 5 things before stepping away from the working world.

Click here to learn more.

What the Supreme Court’s fixes for retirement savings may do to your 401(k)

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SUPREME COURT RULES WORKERS CAN SUE OVER HIGH 401(K) FEES

On Monday, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that workers can sue their employers over high fees in their 401(k) plan offerings. Workers have complained for years about being forced to choose high fee investment options in their 401(k) plans because of a lack of other options. In a 9-0 decision, the justices decided that employers could be sued if their retirement plans offer employees mutual funds with unnecessarily high fees.

Learn More Here.