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How To Give Employees Ownership Or Equity Value
By Wade Myers Q: When and how should I give equity or other incentives to my senior managers in order to retain them? I’m considering giving them equity, but not sure how to do that. A: While I absolutely understand the need to retain key management staff, I would be careful about giving up ownership to them […]
Integrity in Business
by Rick Boxx for Integrity Resource Center My three-year-old daughter’s birthday party brought a surprise lesson on integrity. As Rebekah opened the big attractive box, with a beautiful red ribbon, you could see the excitement dance in her eyes as she viewed the new American Girl doll. This finely crafted piece of workmanship was definitely […]
Take Advantage of Free Credit Reports
By Andrew Pryor for Sound Mind Investing When purchasing my current home, I met with a mortgage lender who, as standard procedure, had pulled my credit report. To my dismay, there appeared on the list numerous credit accounts that I had closed years earlier. There were others that I forgot I even had (remember that […]
Make Sure Your Investing Decision-Making Is Inside-Out
By Austin Pryor for Sound Mind Investing One of the more contra-intuitive propositions that I regularly put forth in my newsletter is the idea that one’s investing decisions can usually be made with little regard for what’s currently going on in the investment markets. Let me make my case, and then we’ll apply it to […]
20 Major Advantages of Investing in Mutual Funds
by Austin Pryor for Sound Mind Investing Mutual funds offer many benefits that can make your investing program easier and safer. Here are 20 of their major advantages. Advantage #1: Mutual funds can reduce the anxiety of investing. Most investors constantly live with a certain amount of anxiety and fear about their investments because they […]
Are Your Vendors Happy?
by Rick Boxx of Integrity Resource Center. “Do I pay staff, payroll taxes, or the vendor?” After staring at the checkbook it was obvious I could only do one of the three. This is a dilemma many business leaders have faced, but now the decision was mine. Most business owners would say pay the employee […]
Picking the Right Stock-to-Bond Mix
by Mark Biller for Sound Mind Investing What determines the performance of your investment portfolio more than any other single factor? Most investors think it’s picking good stocks and stock funds. Certainly that can make a big difference, and that’s why we suggest using a proven strategy like Fund Upgrading to help make important buy/sell […]
God Will Provide
by Mark Biller for Sound Mind Investing For many people, the biggest obstacle to becoming a successful investor is the belief that investing is too difficult for them to handle. Because that misconception is so prevalent, SMI devotes a lot of coverage to the complexity-busting power of establishing a personal investing plan and sticking with […]
Making Money From Home
by Joseph Slife for Sound Mind Investing For many of our forebears, home wasn’t just a place to live — it was a center of commerce. Whether by running a cottage industry or a family farm, our ancestors earned a living not far from where they ate and slept. Work began moving away from home […]
How to Make the Right Investing Decisions
by Austin Pryor for Sound Mind Investing Having lived through the thrill of victory (the late 1990 bull market) and the agony of defeat (the 2000-2002 bear market), many people today are finding it increasingly difficult to know which is the “right” step to take. They wonder: * “Is this a good time to buy […]
