Financial Zip

You are turning 50 and you realize that everything you have done to save for retirement (or not done) is about to come due. Looking at your banking account it doesn’t look promising. In fact it is down right depressing. Your retirement accounts resembles Al Capone’s secret vault, empty and lots of […]

So it has been roughly three months since I started this endeavour to create a personal finance website.  I have grown in leaps and bounds and I am very excited aobut the future of financialzip.com.  I started this website with intention of provideing information that can help define what it means to be financially independent […]

So you want to enter the crazy and volatile world of the stock market. We have gone over some basics with Understanding the Stock Market. What you now need to know is what is a stock?
Let’s use an example. You have a company that you want to start, and you have […]

When you think of the stock market, especially these days we recoil with fear and loathing. Most people are intimidated by the stock market and really don’t understand how it works. Not to mention it has the ability to ruin a portfolio at the drop of a corporate hat.
Before we get to know […]

I am a huge Warren Buffett fan. He is the only man in the world to build his entire fortune from accumulating stock to the tune of over 30 billion dollars. Yes he owns many companies but it has been solely from acquiring stock in many different companies. He is the […]