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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
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5 Steps Toward Sound Investing
Making sound investments is simple, but it’s not easy. It requires planning, discipline, realistic expectations, flexibility and understanding. Read More
Strategy Corner—Roth IRAs: New Opportunities
In this article, Contango Capital Advisors explores the benefits and pitfalls of Roth IRAs and why you might want to take a fresh look at them. All of you have heard of Roth IRAs, but most of you have not paid too much attention to them because they have had income limitations that have made them irrelevant to all income categories.
However, in 2005 Congress passed an amendment to the rules that will expand Roth IRA opportunities to everyone regardless of their wealth, beginning in 2010. Read More
Thinking Ahead: Part One of Two
It’s good to know what your family goals are for the next 10 or 20 years: Buy a home, send children to college, accumulate enough for retirement and many other worthy aims. But good intentions don’t necessarily make good outcomes. To be successful, you need to do some simple arithmetic, and then — and this is the hard part — live according to the calculations. Read More
The Bucket Plan: Regain Control of Your Future
Many families have discovered that the assets they intended to use for important purposes — paying for the children’s college educations, funding retirement, buying a long-awaited vacation home — have been swallowed up by the financial crisis. They’re now having to make last-minute and often drastic adjustments to their plans. Read More
Market Risk and Volatility
Market risk is a chance that an investor takes. No matter what the long-term prospects of an investment or its probable intrinsic value, an asset may trade at any price in the market. A trading price is determined by the interactions of buyers and sellers. If there is more buying than selling of an asset, its price will rise; if there is more selling than buying, its price will fall. This means that an investment’s price can rise, fall and bounce around. The extent of these movements is usually described by the term volatility. Read More
Planning Ahead
There comes a time in nearly every business owner’s life when the question must be faced: Is it time to sell the business and move on?
You can prepare for that question far before it’s time to answer it. By planning ahead, you are more likely to have a better understanding of your options and how each one might affect your personal and financial goals. If you know you’ll want to transition your business in the next five years, now is the time to put the planning wheels in motion. Read More
Regulatory Reform
The bloodletting on Wall Street is still in full swing, yet we’ve already begun to hear calls for greater regulation of the financial services industry. Given the magnitude of the crisis, it is likely some regulatory reform will occur. As we go through this process, it’s critical that we keep our wits about us and make decisions based on fact and not emotion. Read More
You’re Welcome to Think
It turns out that this Internet thing is good for more than just sending emails, investing, and viewing weird home videos. And we know that we need to do better at using it to communicate with you.
Armed with that knowledge, we are starting a blog. Those of you in the know understand what a blog is—or at least you have an idea of a few out there—see the value in creating a communication tool where we can talk to you and you can talk to us. But to those who do not know, we’ll explain what it means for Zions and what our purpose will be. Read More
