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Michael Tilles, Ameriprise Financial Advisor, talks about the very human side of personal financial planning, money management and the enjoyment he has gotten from working with families through generations.

Using Ameriprise’s unique holistic planning process, and utilizing the Dream – Plan – Track approach, our advisors are able to get at the heart of what really matters. Whether it’s planning for a confident retirement, helping to gain future happiness or just learning how to achieve your goals while enjoying your life in the present, our advisors can help with personal financial planning to put your dreams more within reach.

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I want to lower my expens and increase my income

Make a budget. List what you earn and list what every single expense that you have is. Look at where and how you can cut down. You also need to save a certain amount of money every month.

Then you can look at ways to spend less and cut expenses. Shopping with coupons, spending less on eating out, dozens of ways. This will give you a start. No budget is any good if you do not strictly adhere to it also.

Then you have to look at long term goals and figure out and plan how to meet them. You want to make more money for example. Well How? More education, better job, career change, what? Many options here.

There are many tips on line for example on how to cut expenses. With shopping, utilities, everything. Do some research and implement the ones that best fit your needs. This will give you ideas that will lead to other ideas and it’s a good place to start.

Then you can decide when you have more money to invest in the future and learn about Certificates of Deposits, IRAS, Money Markets and so on. You always, always should have some money in savings that you never ever spend and is used only for emergencies, car repair, doctor bills, etc.

Does anyone have any credible information about Plan 1st Financial Solutions? A relative of mine was contacted by phone and was given a game plan over the phone to solve his bad debt problem. Before continuing with this business we wanted to see some credibility. Any help would be great!

Lots and lots of compalints.
Google the name of the company followed by the word scam.
Days of reading.

Why on earth would anyone fall for a person that calls you on the phone?
If you want a good company, you do reasearch and you find it on your own.

If your friend is in real trouble contact NFCC.org
This is a government agency that helps you 100% free.
There are also MANY good books at libraries and bookstores that have books on Debt and Credit Repair that will teach you how to be a pro at fixing the problem yourself.

There are no secrets to fixing problems – it’s all in books.
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Terry Doyle, Ameriprise Financial Advisor, talks about life stage financial planning and how he helps his clients strategize, and look at the planning process in terms of a “hundred year plan”, to help build a legacy.

Using Ameriprise’s unique holistic planning process, and utilizing the Dream – Plan – Track approach, our advisors are able to get at the heart of what really matters. Whether it’s planning for different life stages, a confident retirement, helping to gain future happiness or just learning how to achieve your goals while enjoying your life in the present, our advisors can help put your dreams more within reach.

Meet an Advisor near you at http://www.ameriprise.com

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A Normal person how can analyze perfectly his needs?

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Many times people think there is no way I can save enough money for retirement. They feel like I’m just going to have to work until I die. That is not the case. There are things that you can do to enhance you chances to retire at a decent age. You just have to be willing to get started. Here are some suggestions to get things started.
1. Pay bills on time but do not over pay. There are problems with paying bills late and with over paying. When you pay late you get hit with late charges and fees. This can increase your monthly payments by as much as 30% or more. This is a very high interest rate for a short term loan. The opposite is true if you pay too much and carry a credit balance. Most companies will not pay interest on credit balances. You would be better off depositing the extra amount into a savings account and earning interest even if it is very little.
2. Take advantage of savings plans at work. For some people it is easier to save money if you never see it. If your employer has some type of plan that allows you to deduct money directly from your check then that is the best way. This can be a thrift savings, credit union or 401K plan. This can be easier and more systematic than having to deposit your check and then moving the money into some form of savings. Once you have accumulated three to six months of your necessary bills or living expenses into an account, and then look for something with a higher return. Until that point, look for security not return on investment.
3. Take advantage of free money but contributing to an employer sponsored retirement plan. If you have a plan available at work that has an employer match, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT!! This is free money that is not available anywhere else. I would suggest that you contribute at least to the point that the matching stops. So for example if your employer matches %100 of your contribution up to the first 6% the put in 6%. Additional contributions will depend on your situation but take advantage of the free money.
4. Play games with yourself by setting up a reward schedule. We are a society of immediate gratification. When you look at the time to retirement that can seem a long time to wait for your reward no matter what your age is. A way to overcome this is to setup a schedule of rewarding yourself at specific intervals. You can say that when you have put aside “$ x” for “y” number of months then you will reward yourself with something. It can be a gift for yourself, a night out or a vacation. The opposite can work by penalizing yourself for not sticking to your plan. You can say that if you fail to meet your commitment you will contribute money to the politician you like the LEAST! That for some people is the trick.
5. Take advantage of small changes. For some people it is easier to make small lifestyle changes. Bring a lunch to work instead of eating fast food. This will create small savings amounts like $5, $10 or $15 per day. This can add up over time. Car pooling with others is another example of ways to save money.
6. Attack larger items of savings. For some people to get motivated it takes large savings. An example of this is when you pay off your car don’t buy a new one. Take the money that you were paying monthly as your note and put it into savings. You can use this money to purchase a used car when you need to buy something else. This strategy can save you thousands of dollars over time. You will have money to possibly pay cash for a used auto and maybe still have money left over.
These are ideas of ways to save money that can be moved into your retirement savings plan. The main thing is to get started. Time is going to be your biggest asset. The sooner you get started the longer your investments will have to accumulate returns.
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Many teenagers see university as the next step to their becoming an adult. The choice of classes is left to them. For many of these students their finances are now in their hands. It is usually at this point that they will think about the need for money to help them with their education. The many different student financial aid plans to help these students and others who need financial help are available from their school’s financial office.

Information about the various student financial aid plans is also available from the local library and from any of the universities and colleges in the country. Some of the financial programs can offer details of these programs when you call them. You should also be able to find out these various details from the internet. In addition to getting details about the aid plans you can take a look at the forms which you will need to apply.

Now before you choose a student financial aid plan and apply, you should read the various terms which will have been provided with the aid document. From this plan you will see how much you have to pay in order to end the financial re-payment. The time limit you will have once you have graduated or even finished classes will be stated as well.

Once you have this point cleared up you should take a look at the loan amount you will receive. This loan amount and the interest rate are other items that are given on the student financial aid forms. These many details are ones that will help you to see which student loans are possible avenues of aid.

There are other better ways that you can receive student financial aid. One of the items that most state and other student aid assistance groups look for is that of a FAFSA approval form. They will look through the details which have been provided for them. Based on these details and the information just about any student financial aid plans will be more than happy to help you with your education.

As many people say education is very important. One of the more important steps that you can take is to study at university. The various student financial aid programs have been designed to help you out with there many loan schemes and loan amounts. The time period you will have to pay this loan back is also very generous.

Rene Graeber
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Austan Goolsbee of the Council of Economic Advisers talks the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and overall financial regulatory reform. (public domain)

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THE LEGACY FUND LAUNCH – Providing Extremely Low Risk Investments and Consistent Annual Double Digit returns in Excess of 20 – 30 Years!

Cabal Capital Management, LLC announces the launch of the Legacy Fund, a Special Opportunity Fund which provides special alternative investment opportunities into extremely low risk, and very high financial return Advanced High Income Generation Projects through direct investments.

This fund which is not a private equity fund and is Sharia-Compliant, is unlike all other investment pool funds, hedge funds, etc. that exist today by offering investments that are focused on both strategic and tactical investment opportunities into Highly Advanced Income Generating Project(s) producing crucial and vital, very high demand commercially valued product(s) that are being sold directly into the largest “Major” Consumer, Industrial and Governmental Universal Demand Markets in the world.  These investments allow risk adverse accredited investors the ability to participate in the revenues generated from these projects which allows for and achieves both capital growth and preservation, while providing the investor an extremely low risk opportunity with the benefit of dependable and sustainable alpha generation and the long term growth from these projects.  These fully integrated projects have been designed to last 40 to 50 years or longer (similar to their predecessors) for their life cycles regardless of the global financial and credit markets.

This fund is well positioned to effectively tap into these markets to the benefits of its investors.  The growth dynamics of the United States and Western Europe is based upon local, regional and domestic consumption of all the products these projects produce.  This fund is targeting routine and consistent annual double digit returns (15 – 21%) to investors un-correlated to all securities, commodities, currencies and the credit markets themselves since there will not be any exposure to these markets.  All project investments within this special investment vehicle have been specifically developed and designed to perform across various business cycles regardless of global economic conditions to include recessionary and depressionary environments as well.

Any tightening regulatory environment, the current global credit crisis, current stock market contractions and wild swings in the commodities markets does not and will not impact our ability to produce consistent annual double digit returns now or in the future for our investors since we will never have, need or rely on the credit markets to establish margin accounts or leveraged positions which most all hedge fund type investment vehicles require to operate.  We do not require nor will we ever utilize prime services which the large investment banks provide (Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, etc.). We do not rely on the stock, commodity or currency exchanges to generate income since we can not control any of the events occurring in those exchanges for our investors, thus we are totally un-correlated to all securities, commodities, currencies and credit markets. 

In the case of Deflationary and Inflationary Markets, they will have no real effect on these projects and the products they produce.  Coincidentally inflation will only increase the value of the products coming out of the projects. Deflationary markets will have very minimal impact on the products produced within these projects since these products are and always will be vital for any country to maintain a stable economy, thus they will always be in very high demand through out the world regardless of the global economic conditions. 

Risk issues are always addressed through risk management and the review procedures for each and every investment made.  Unlike most projects which have been developed, planned and master planned, every assumption for each project invested in has been tested, validated, verified and proven or it’s not incorporated into these project(s).  Each and every project is also backed up by a detailed Input / Output Financial Cash Model which is a detailed Program / Project Financial Blueprint that shows the quarterly inter-relationships of investments, operational production revenues, operational expenses at all levels, taxes, imposts and fees, special circumstances events, and financial obligations during the life of the Program / Project.

Since energy production and consumption is the key element to any industrialized country, and with energy consumption increasing globally at an annual rate of 5 – 6 %, energy is and always will be vital to both the U.S. and Western European Economies. Allocating to Energy and Bio-Fuels production are two major key areas of involvement and investments within our seven pronged program investment strategies approach, which consists of the following options available to us:  Energy:  Oil & Gas (Example Project to follow), Bio Fuels:  Algae Based Bio-Diesel and Jatropha Curcas {plant} direct fuel source.  Algae Based Bio-Diesel is a direct fuel source currently available and ready for full scale production and delivery {This is Direct Fuel Source and is not a blend for gasoline or other fuel sources!} Algae Based Bio-Diesel Fuel production utilizes proprietary photo enhanced, micro nutrient enhanced, continuous flow, automated, sensor quality controlled, bio-chemical industrial processes and then are pressed, centrifuged, oils separated from water, water treated, cooked, cracked and treated all within a 12 hour cycle (Start to Finish) to complete one batch made ready for use in any diesel engine.  Initially 270 Million Gallons per quarter to several Billion Gallons of bio-diesel per quarter will be produced depending upon the initial size of a project program.  This Algae Based Bio-Diesel Fuel source has a Cetane Rating of 105 -117 compared to 80 – 85 Cetane Rating for #1 diesel fuel currently produced by all the major oil companies, which provides more power, better millage and performance while emitting 60 – 70% less emissions across the board vs. normal standard crude oil based diesel fuels. This Algae Based Bio-Diesel product emits no sulfur and or nitrogen into the atmosphere, Alternative Energy:  Solar / Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Production, Wind and Electric Fuel Cell Systems, Natural Resources:  Gold, Platinum and other Precious Metals Groups and Diamond Mining: Refining, Assaying, Separation using advanced physical technologies and Bullion production of Gold and Platinum as well as Processing, Cutting, Valuation Appraisals of Diamonds and other Precious Stones, Water:  Proprietary Water Science / Technology to Produce Fresh Drinking Water to meet Agricultural, Industrial and Human Public Health needs in critically water short areas through Water production, bottling facilities and distribution.  This can be accomplished with any available water supply {in ground water tables, above and below ground reservoirs with a high saline content normally not recommended for human consumption}, Sea Waters & Brackish Waters anywhere Globally, Hydroponics:  Food Production: Fish Shrimp, Prawns, Fruits Vegetables utilizing USDA inspectors to garner Grade A Choice Status to include direct marketing into Major U.S.A. and International Consumer Demand Markets, and Special Opportunities: Aviation Fuels: JP-1 to JP-12 for Commercial and Military Applications from Algae Based Direct Fuel Sources as well as Advanced Hyper-Speed Information Technologies and other Advanced High Income Generation Project Opportunities as they become available.

It should be noted that traditional large project investments consist normally of only one income generation production element and typically requires three years at the earliest before the investors see any type of modest return on their investment.  Our projects produce immediate results in the first year due to their very nature and global demand.  These Exclusive World Class Projects which are available to us for investments have no less than 2, but normally include 5 or more Major Integrated Income Production Elements within each project.  It should also be noted that each income producing element within these projects are so strong that they could stand on their own and support the entire project, which is why many of these elements are developed together to form an Advanced Integrated Income Generation Project depending upon the requirements and location of the program.

All of the projects that this special opportunity fund invests in involve Proprietary Advanced Technologies and Advanced Physical Science / Processes (not known to the great majority of Asset Manager Companies Staffs).   Other types of investment pool managers, hedge funds, etc. do not know or even have access to these world class development engineering people and the technologies assets and projects that they develop, implement and manage.  Currently we have in excess of $10 Billion Dollars worth of Advanced High Income Generation Projects available to us for investments.

These projects are developed, implemented and managed by Highly Reliable, Senior Internationally Experienced Technical Managers, Senior Science Managers and Senior Logistics / Project Security Management Staff.  There are in excess of 300 Top Level Executive Technical Managers with over 30 years of Experience in each of their perspective Development Sectors available for all projects that our fund invests in.  These projects are designed to insure extreme depth of expertise and experience management which is available to any project at any and every stage of the project program, regardless of location of the project anywhere globally.

This fund understands that most  Investors, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Major International Banks, Hedge Funds, Fund of Funds, Private Equity Funds and others do not have the technical resources, capability, background and or understanding to evaluate, determine and differentiate between good and bad Large Advanced High Income Generation Projects, Project Developers, Project Implementation Capability and Management of Highly Integrated Multiple Income Steam Revenue Generation Projects. 

This is the strength of the Asset Manager and where he excels; during the past several years  he has been mentored, tutored and trained by some of the oldest and most highly respected, responsible, highly sought after and experienced Development Engineers who have planned, master planned, developed, managed, evaluated and trouble shot Economic Development Projects, Strong Multiple Stream Income Generation Projects, conducted Nation Building and Humanitarian Projects in over 65 countries during the past 40 years.  The training he has received allows him to thoroughly review, comprehend and evaluate Project Development, Project Implementation, Logistics, Security and Management of these projects as well as the risk management associated with each potential investment.  This process has provided him with the understanding, knowledge and insights of Project Development, Implementation, Logistics Operations and Infrastructure development of large income generation projects to determine unequivocally, which Highly Advanced Income Production Projects are viable and which ones are questionable investments at best.

A Special Note of consideration is that each investment will bring with it potential tax advantages not typically found with other types of investments.  Depending on where the project(s) are located and how the project are legally structured and set up (Development Corporations, Development Authorities, etc. which are authorized by local, state or federal governments) could result in tremendous tax advantages, which each investors tax advisor will need to qualify and determine the best approach for each investors own tax liabilities depending upon their current tax status, situation and strategies.

The results of this Special Investment Vehicle fund are highly advantageous investment opportunities that by far exceed the majority of investment opportunities available to investors from a financial return as well as extremely low risk standpoint by investing in Outstanding Advanced High Income Generation Projects carried out by highly reliable and responsible individuals and organizations.

Face to face meetings are welcomed and encouraged in order to qualify, verify and validate these investment opportunities which stem from the Americana way of project development and implementation with the application of Science, Engineering, Logistics, Security and Management which dates back to over 200 Years during the American Expansion of the United States of America.  Never before in the history of mankind has the shear number and sizes of these Consumer Universal Demand Markets been in place and more importantly, primed and ready to handle and accept these vital, crucial and very high demand, commercially valued products coming from these projects.

Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Cabal Capital Management, L.L.C. is managed by Kent Sullivan:  www.cabalcapitalmanagement.com

Kent Sullivan
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