Fundrise Review: Real Estate Crowdfunding

How Does Fundrise Work? Fundrise takes commercial projects across the states and turns them into Electronic real estate investment trusts (eREITs). This is in contrast to regular REITS whether privately or publicly traded REITS. You can think of this as similar to an index fund where each eREITS is a basket of various commercial real estate projects. Fundrise has declared

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Backdoor Roth IRA

What is a backdoor Roth IRA? In today’s post, I will discuss my experiences with my first backdoor Roth IRA and a subsequent step-by-step guide. In my opinion, Roth IRA is one of the most versatile tax-advantaged retirement account you can take advantage of today. If you’re interested, I discussed in more detail about Roth IRA in another post and

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The Intelligent Investor Summary

The Intelligent Investor In today’s post, I will summarize and discuss the top takeaways from the book, “The Intelligent Investor” by Benjamin Graham. Warren Buffet, one of the most successful investors the world has ever known has this to say about the book. The best book on investing, ever written. Warren Buffet Investment vs. Speculation Graham defines investment as: One

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Three fund portfolio: asset allocation

If you have been keeping track of the stock market’s volatility lately, like most investors, you’ll probably want to take a peek your portfolio, asset allocation, and performance. Particularly, if you’re a fan of the three-fund portfolio, you’d wanted to know how it’s performing and make sure that you have the ideal asset allocation. I recently finished listening to The

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Financial Engines Review

In this post, I will review financial engines also known as advised assets group and decide whether or not it is worth it due to their fees and other factors. What is Financial Engines (FE)? According to its website, they are founded in 1996. They described themselves as: We provide objective, fee-based advice and asset management, with an aim to

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