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Welcome. If you wish to invest well and lack trust of Wall Street,
you have come to the right place.
More to the point, you have found a resource that will help you
get your finances to the "right place". Personal Planning Power (
) was developed as both a financial planning application as well as a consumer's guide.
The application capabilities of
can help you build a proper portfolio, correct a badly positioned one,
project future wealth and income, and analyze key decisions
such as when to retire or how to pay for college.
The guide will help you avoid bad investments, eliminate sales commissions,
reduce costs in all your financial undertakings, and spot schemes and scams.
When you download
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at first glance you will notice the financial planning....
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Pay Just a Little Attention, or Pay a Lot of Fees
How much do you make per hour? How long does it take you to type
in a web address or two? How much do you have to invest? Why ask?
Consider...
Assume for a moment you have $20,000 to invest. A broker (or
salesperson by any title) could meet with you, talk a lot, listen a
little, then select a fund for you and collect a
5% fee, or $1,000. Perhaps a different rep would put you in a
back-end fee fund, costing nothing up front but instead stripping an
extra $200 out of your account for 6 or more years. Another might
push a full service brokerage, costing you hundreds, perhaps
thousands annually just to trade.
Ben Franklin famously told us that a "penny saved is a penny
earned." Would you like to earn $1,000 in an hour? You may have more
or less than $20,000 to invest, and you may choose to spend more or
less time than an hour, but ...
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Regulations Will Not Protect You. Only You Can.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. How about a third time? And a fourth? And onward.
After the crash of 1929, a number of new laws were passed to
prevent the frauds and excesses that led to the crash and, worse,
caused the Great Depression. Among these were very strict rules for
mutual funds and the staff who managed and sold such. Banking was
completely reformed. So-called "Chinese Walls" were constructed to
separate creators of securities - investment bankers - from
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