How to Begin Making Money from Your Investments
After I made an quick comment on my personal blog explaining how Aaron and I were able to earn between $80,000 and $100,000 a year without having full time jobs during our undergraduate days at college years ago, I received a flood of private messages, emails, and comments that included a ton of questions about making money. I decided to write a guide explaining the basics of making money in each major type of investment - stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and real estate. In all of them, making money really comes down to one formula: Revenue minus cost equal profits. To learn more, let's get started!
Have you ever wondered how to get rich? To begin, there are four important keys that underpin my philosophy to making money and becoming financially independent. I wrote them out for you here in the hopes that you find them useful in your own quest for success. Take a moment to read over them, print them out, and think about them.
2. Making Money from Stocks
When it comes to investing in stocks, many new investors don't know how you actually make money. They don't understand the difference between capital gains, dividends, and other sources of profit. This short guide was written to help you make sense of the potential ways you can start making money by owning stocks.
3. Making Money from Dividends
When it comes to making money, one of the oldest and most traditional strategies involves buying shares of stock in companies that return most of the profit to the owners in the form of cash dividends. The more stock you own, the more dividends you receive. In this brief introduction, I wanted to teach you how to begin making money from dividends and dividend investing
4. Making Money from Bonds
When it comes to making money, bonds are one of the oldest ways known to man. You, the investor, lend some cash to a company or government in exchange for promise of repayment and interest income. But it isn't that simple. There are actually two ways you can make money from investing in bonds, which most new investor's don't realize ...
5. Making Money from Real Estate Investing
As with stocks and bonds, in the world of real estate investing, there are only a handful of ways to begin making money. This overview was designed to help you understand the basics of real estate and how successful real estate investors work to maximize their profits.
6. Making Money from Mutual Funds
A vast majority of Americans have invested in mutual funds, mostly through a 401(k) plan at work, a Roth IRA, a Traditional IRA, a 403(b), a SEP-IRA, a Simple IRA, or another retirement account. Unfortunately, many new investors can't actually tell you what a mutual fund is, how a mutual fund works, or how you make money from a mutual fund. This brief introduction to making money from mutual funds was designed to help you answer those questions.
7. Making Money from ETFs
Making money from ETFs is almost the same process as making money from mutual funds. The source of your profit will depend upon the type of investment owned by the ETF. This provides some guidelines for typical ways most ETFs might make money.
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