Dummies.com: Personal Finance

How to Prioritize Your Budget Allocations

When you look at your financial situation, try not to get bogged down in details — look at the big picture. There's an easy way to sift through what seem like competing priorities to determine the top [more…]

Eight Great Opportunities for Advanced Investors

Trying to predict the future can be especially dangerous when hoping to profit from investments. However, you can extrapolate from existing trends and processes and wonder out-loud whether large changes [more…]

Managing Your Investment Portfolio For Dummies Cheat Sheet (UK Edition)

The most important thing to you as an investor is your portfolio - the range of assets held within your stock-broking or investing account. Learn how to diversify your portfolio and reduce your risk by [more…]

Deciding What Kind of Investor You Are

Investors come in many forms. In very general terms, there are the low-risk, very cautious investors and then there are the higher risk and more adventurous investors. See which category you fall into [more…]

Realising the Risks Involved in Investing

Unfortunately, many investors look at risk in a very simplistic way. A typical query about risk may start with an investor asking, ‘How much capital may I lose if I invest in an asset?’ But risk involves [more…]

Ensuring Long-Term Investment Success: Keeping Costs Low

In addition to running focused trades and using well-thought-through strategies, the key to long-term investment success is keeping costs to the absolute minimum. Here are some of the costs to keep in [more…]

Understanding the Life of an Economic Bubble

Economists (or perhaps ‘bubblanalysts’) such as Hyman Minsky and Charles Kindleberger have identified five stages of an economic bubble. Take a look and see how you can identify and utilise these stages [more…]

Balancing Risk and Age: Lifecycle Investing

Your age impacts heavily on the type of investments you need to be making. Over your lifetime as an investor, your appetite for risk (and return) evolves. As your tolerance of risk changes, so too does [more…]

Balance Risks and Rewards when Crowdfund Investing

The younger you are, the more risky you may be with your crowdfund investments. You may truly believe that nothing will go wrong. (And if anything does go awry, you’ll likely recover much faster and less [more…]

Diversify Your Crowdfund Investing Portfolio

If you haven’t been scared you away from crowdfund investing yet, that means you probably have some tolerance for financial risk. How much tolerance? That’s a question only you can answer [more…]

Crowdfund Investing Should Be Small Percentage of Investments

You should never put more than 10 percent of your financial portfolio into crowdfund investments. (You may even consider something closer to the 5 percent range.) This limit is wise even if more than 10 [more…]

Establish Personal Connections to Your Crowdfund Investments

The premise of crowdfund investing is that you put your money into ventures run by people you know and trust — or by people who have a secondary connection to you. What does a secondary connection look [more…]

Watch the Pitch Videos for Potential Crowdfund Investments

The pitch video that the entrepreneur or small business owner creates is your window into his crowdfund investing business concept and plan. You can find this video by visiting the particular online funding [more…]

Read All the Crowdfund Investing Opportunity's Pitch Information

You should be able to locate the meat of the business model on the same funding portal where you find the crowdfund investment's pitch video. The entrepreneur or business owner should provide the equivalent [more…]

Common-Sense Tips for Evaluating Crowdfund Investments

You need to apply some common-sense tactics to avoid being swept up in your crowdfund investing enthusiasm. You need to protect yourself from making bad decisions, and you have the means to do so if you [more…]

Sniff Out Fraud in Crowdfund Investing

The minute you start thinking about investing in a company through crowdfund investing, you assume responsibility to help watch for fraud. The power of the crowd — which includes you! — is precisely what [more…]

The Purpose of Crowdfund Investment Limits

The U.S. government has placed limits on the amount that you can put into any crowdfund investments. The U.S. government doesn’t often tell people what they can and cannot spend their money on. However [more…]

Accredited and Unaccredited Crowdfund Investors

For many decades, U.S. investors have been divided into two categories: accredited and unaccredited. These designations are the same in crowdfund investing. Federal law indicates that accredited investors [more…]

How to Pledge Your Crowdfund Investing Amount on the Funding Portal

When you’re ready to pledge your funds to a crowdfund investing campaign, you log onto the online funding portal that supports this particular campaign. Here are the steps you’ll most likely take next: [more…]

Know Your Rights as a Crowdfund Investor

You’ll need to do a bit of independent research and reading to find out what your rights are as a crowdfund investor in a specific company’s campaign. For starters, your rights depend on whether you invest [more…]