“THIS YEAR’S SAFEST SECTOR
WITH THE BEST RETURN IS
PREDICTED TO BE THE GLOBAL
REAL ESTATE MARKET”
commercial real estate companies, while Blynccmakes
its services available on the gowith its TheAnalyst
app for iOS devices. TheAnalyst includes such
features as financial calculators, investment analysis
tools, PDF reporting, and property distancemeasuring.
Online trading is another way to invest your extra
cash. Individual investors can use platforms like that
of brokerage firm TradeKing, to buy and sell assets
such as stocks and common bonds quickly and
easily, and all online. Certain internet trading
platforms have taken extra steps tomake things
even easier. Scottrade, for example, has streamlined
investing and trading solutions, and personalizes its
services to help customersmaintain portfolios that
match their strategy.
It all sounds great, right? If TheWolf of Wall Street
taught me anything, however, it’s that with investment
comes risk. While insurance is oneway to put your
mind at ease, if you’re not a veteran investor, it can
still be pretty perturbing to put money into something
you’re not sure about. But fear not, for financial
advisors exist; they arewell-versed in theworld of
investment and can tell youwhen, where and how
best to invest yourmoney. Missouri-basedWells
Fargo Advisors, for example, is a respected financial
services firm, whose 15,000-plus advisors aid clients
in developing individual investment plans and
investment portfolios that are easy to keep track of.
If you’re keen to do it all yourself, learning about
investment through educational classes is a good
option. Morningstar.com offers courses in its online
Investing Classroom. As they say, time ismoney, but
each of the 172 courses can be completed in about
tenminutes, and you can learn about everything
from stocks and bonds to portfolio building.
Whilemacroeconomic threats such as the future
growth inworldwide interest rateswill undoubtedly
have an effect on variousmarkets, if investors arm
themselveswith knowledge, experienced advisors
and take necessary precautions such as insurance,
their investments should hold strong. If only I had
known about all thiswhen I was 11.
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