The stock market have been very generous towards investors during the recent years and the S&P 500 index is at its highest levels now. Unfortunately, good past returns do not guarantee good future returns and some market analysts, economists, and investors have started to worry about the yield curve movements.

The main purpose of any investment is to generate more money than the amount invested, the time it takes to do so is called the payback period (PBP) in capital budgeting. Payback period is wildly used by investors and entrepreneurs when they consider to open a new enterprise, invest in an existing business, or when they try to pick the best opportunity among two or more possible options.

Alpha (α) and beta (β) are two crucial coefficients that are used for measurement of success of a particular portfolio. Beta represents the volatility of a particular asset (or the whole portfolio) versus the volatility of the benchmark. In this article, we’ll explain what beta is and give a few simple examples to demonstrate how it can be used.

The idea of generating passive income was always popular. It’s such a dreamy scheme: to receive money without doing any work. Maybe the whole idea of passive income is some kind of a scam? Maybe, on average, you’d be better off just by having an ordinary job?

More than 20 years ago, in 1997, Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter released their book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” which became an immediate success. This book is about personal finance, entrepreneurship, business, investing and economics and it has become some kind of a bible for a lot of people.

Alpha (α) coefficient in investing is used for measurement of the success of a particular portfolio. Along with beta, the alpha coefficient helps portfolio managers to determine how certain picked assets performed against the market average. In this article, we’ll explain how to use alpha and why is it important for investors.

Inflation is a crucial concept in economics but the full meaning of inflation remains unclear for many people. We should always take inflation into account and manage it properly and it applies to any economic entity from a single household to a sovereign state.

It’s usually justified to be skeptical about financial forecasting, yet most portfolio managers have certain expectations regarding the future rate of return on the investments they make. How does one figure out an expected return of a financial portfolio? In this article, we’ll explain a method that is commonly used to calculate the expected return.

It’s believed that investing is something that only the rich and old people should be interested in but an early start can bring many financial benefits. We’ll explain why you should start investing early and what benefits it can bring when you get older.

Is it trading or investing when someone buys stocks? What’s the difference? These two terms still cause confusion so, in this article, we’ll explain how investing is different from trading, and we’ll also provide a few simple examples of each activity.

Today we are starting a new category on our website - stock forecasts. We’ll share an opinion on stocks’ future prices, analyze them from technical and fundamental points of view, and give our recommendation on whether we would consider buying, holding or selling a particular market security.

When you open your first bank account an adviser would often propose you to get checking (otherwise known as current) and savings accounts. The first one, without any interest for your day-to-day transactions and the second one with a very small interest.

You can open almost any old book on wealth management, investing or smart capital allocation and you would find the same idea that seems to be extremely popular at all times: investing in real estate is a great option. Most of those books were written a while ago, has the situation regarding investing in real estate changed in these days?

When it comes to fundamental analysis of a company, there is one crucial metric that just can’t be ignored and it’s called EBITDA. It’s wildly used by investors, portfolio managers, and market analysts. Today we’ll try to explain what does this metric mean and we’ll also provide a few examples.

When it comes to measuring dividend return of a particular stock, it’s important to understand what dividend yield is. It’s a rather simple concept but it may confuse some people because they’re expecting to see an absolute number, instead, they usually see some weird “yield” thing in the form of a fraction.

A dividend is a payment given to the company’s shareholders on a regular basis. Generally speaking, this term means: ‘an additional outcome’ and it can also be used outside of finance and investing. If a farmer buys a cow, the milk it produces can be called a dividend and a growth in the cow’s weight can be called a capital gain, which at some point can be “cashed out”.

A lot of people have a misconception about the amount of capital required to start investing and they think that only the rich people can be investors and traders. Actually you can create a new real investment portfolio with a relatively small sum of money.

Investing seems like an inherently risky affair for many people but it’s not true at all, you can actually choose what level of risk you’re comfortable with. Why would you choose a higher risk? There can be only one good reason: it should give you a higher return on investment.