Investment

When it comes to pursuing the American Dream most of us try as hard as we can to accumulate wealth. We do this so that we can enjoy a comfortable income and retire with dignity. However, what if you were actually wealthy in retirement and at the same time looked poor on your income tax return? How would that impact your retirement years?

Tax Planning is always important to do but even more important now. It generally made sense to defer taxes to future years, but that may not be the case as it appears future taxes could be going up.

2010 Is a Big Sunset Year On-Tax Provisions
Several tax benefits will be going away. For instance, the top tax bracket will be going up from 35% to 39.6%, some talk of it going up to 45%. The minimum tax bracket will go from 10% to 15%. All of us will want to stay abreast of tax legislation. Because of the coming sunset on provisions,

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Don’t Trust Your Money to Wall St, mega banks or government programs! Unless you get hit by a truck, you are going to be around a lot longer then you think Men and Women are living well into their eighties. Will you have enough money through your retirement to maintain your current life style or will you outlive your money? You can’t depend on social security for more than a part of your retirement.

In a normal demonstration of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, US investors did it again. Historically low savings rates and a frightening stock market sent record numbers of savers to lock in current record low rates with fixed annuities " precisely when rates were near rock-bottom - the worst time possible.

All right, I know what I remember from the internships with brokerage houses the old adage that "If it goes up too fast, then you should sell." The general rule of thumb was if it goes up 20% in less than 6 months sell. by that logic you should be selling, but the antithesis is far more accurate than the old adage.

The following is a checklist of Disclosure items for companies. All of these items are things that will help investors to analyse and understand the company. Those companies that respect individual shareholders tend to provide most of these items.

There's always two sides to economic news. It can either be net positive or net negative. The way these stress tests will be net positive is if we find out that the larger banks don't have to raise capital. If we find that the larger commercial banks have to go out and raise tens of billions of dollars, what do you think will happen to our markets?

The usual advice is for individuals to avoid borrowing to invest. If you save to invest then a stock market loss may hurt but it is almost always something you can overcome.

Losing borrowed money however could be financially devastating. You could be forced to sell investments at the bottom in order to make loan payments.

But for some people right now may be a time to make an exception to this rule.