Links
We have provided the following links for your use. Please use them at your leisure.
American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) "is a nonprofit organization that arms individuals with the education and tools they need to build wealth." This site contains many helpful investing and financial planning tools. Yahoo has created a wide-ranging and easy-to-navigate site for people of all levels of financial knowledge. The site is organized around investing retirement, banking and credit, insurance and small business. RiskGrades comes to the rescue with a system for measuring investment risk, a complicated task. It's fairly easy to ascertain the risk of a particular stock or mutal fund, but evaluating a portfolio or investments is far more complex, yet much more important. Use the site to help you measure the financial risk of your holdings, in addition to accessing helpful educational resources. Colin Stewart, a top notch business and innovation columnist for the Orange County Register has created a site offering guidance for all. "Sensible-Investor provides guidance for novice and long-term investors seeking basic advice about personal finance from the World Wide Web." The Department of Health and Human Services has put together a useful site that will enable you to develop a family tree that identifies important health matters for each family member "Know Your Stuff" helps you take a household inventory, including important valuation information that will be a big help if and when you ever need to file a property insurance claim. Reuters is a London-based global information company that is used by over 300,000 financial professionals, but it also offers a wealth of useful information to individuals at no cost. With one-stop shopping for information and guidance to help you make the most of your money. The mutual funds section is particularly helpful. Health Care Decisions is a nonprofit institute devoted to educating us about advance directives. The organization also helps keep us up to date on the evolving nature of end-of-life decisions and documents. Health Care Decisions also explains the confusing terminology associated with the various required documents.