How to Invest Efficiently and Successfully!
Investing is a daunting process, but is very rewarding and a necessary step to ensure financial well-being. Understanding how investing works and what investment vehicles do are vital first steps on your path to financial freedom.
The Optometrist’s Guide to Investing 101
- How to Create The Ideal Portfolio of Stocks and Bonds
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How to Rebalance your Asset Allocation & Other Additional Classes
- How to Quickly Assess a Mutual or Index Fund?
- Target Date Retirement Funds and the age of Robo-advisors; Which Brokerage is right for me?
- How to Monitor your Investment Performance and other wealth-building Tips
Short-term Investing:
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