Comments on: Upcoming Interview With Top Financial Planner: Submit Your Questions http://www.moneyrelationship.com/random/upcoming-interview-with-top-financial-planner-submit-your-questions/ Our Journey to a Debt Free Life Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:54:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: FFB http://www.moneyrelationship.com/random/upcoming-interview-with-top-financial-planner-submit-your-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-1298 FFB Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:00 +0000 http://www.moneyrelationship.com/?p=971#comment-1298 My question - My wife and I are in the market to buy a new home. We've saved up a sizable amount and we are selling our current co-op to use mostly as a down payment on a new place. Our credit is also impeccable. Still...how can we tell if we can truly afford it? Is there a metric/guide we can go by? My question – My wife and I are in the market to buy a new home. We’ve saved up a sizable amount and we are selling our current co-op to use mostly as a down payment on a new place. Our credit is also impeccable. Still…how can we tell if we can truly afford it? Is there a metric/guide we can go by?

]]> By: Jeff Rose http://www.moneyrelationship.com/random/upcoming-interview-with-top-financial-planner-submit-your-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-1162 Jeff Rose Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:43:05 +0000 http://www.moneyrelationship.com/?p=971#comment-1162 Deena- The buy and hold strategy has been around for decades. Do you feel that same strategy applies to the Gen X and Y generation? Secondly, asset allocation has been preached extensively after the dot.com bubble, yet even diversified balanced potfolios took a significant hit with the recent economic meltdown. How do you address that to those concerned? Thanks for your feedback! Deena-

The buy and hold strategy has been around for decades. Do you feel that same strategy applies to the Gen X and Y generation?

Secondly, asset allocation has been preached extensively after the dot.com bubble, yet even diversified balanced potfolios took a significant hit with the recent economic meltdown. How do you address that to those concerned?

Thanks for your feedback!

]]> By: Bible Money Matters http://www.moneyrelationship.com/random/upcoming-interview-with-top-financial-planner-submit-your-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-1161 Bible Money Matters Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:22:31 +0000 http://www.moneyrelationship.com/?p=971#comment-1161 My Question: the economy has my wife feeling a bit insecure even though we've got a sizable emergency fund built up, and we have no debt. The question is, once we've completed our emergency fund what path should we take - should we start investing in the stock market like it's on clearance, save in a high yield savings account, or should we be paying extra on our mortgage? Or a combination of those things? My Question: the economy has my wife feeling a bit insecure even though we’ve got a sizable emergency fund built up, and we have no debt. The question is, once we’ve completed our emergency fund what path should we take – should we start investing in the stock market like it’s on clearance, save in a high yield savings account, or should we be paying extra on our mortgage? Or a combination of those things?

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