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Investment Clubhouse: 3 Tips for Investing in REITs

Advice, resources, and information for investment clubs and their members

Financial adviser Chris Long offers three tips for investing in a REIT index fund.

By Renita Burns

Posted: August 31, 2010 Tags: , , , , , , ,

Investment Clubhouse: Dos & Don’ts For Starting a Club

Advice, resources and information for investment clubs and their members

If part of your wealth creation strategy includes forming an investment club, here are a…

By Renita Burns

Posted: August 24, 2010 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Middle-class African Americans are more likely than whites to have cut back on saving and investing in order to make it through the recession, according to the 2010 Ariel Black Investor Survey. The data is not unexpected since the unemployment rate for African Americans (15.4%) continues to track higher than the overall jobless rate for all Americans (9.5%). “In times of economic hardship, people have to make difficult decisions,” said Mellody Hobson, Ariel president and columnist for Black Enterprise magazine. “Unfortunately, the resulting trade-offs mean many in our community are slipping even further behind.”

African American Investors are Down, but Not Out

Cutting back on saving and spending, helps blacks make it through recession

Middle-class African Americans are more likely than whites to have cut back on saving and…

By Deborah Creighton Skinner

Posted: July 22, 2010 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,