Total payments from the DI trust fund were $145.1 billion, mainly for benefits to disabled workers and their families, resulting in an annual deficit of $30.2 billion in 2014. The cumulative assets in the disability insurance trust fund totaled $60.2 billion at the end of 2014.
Many new investors lose money because they don't think of stocks like other assets such as refrigerators or houses. You should want to buy when they get cheaper and sell when prices increase.This is the opposite of what many people do because of emotion.Jeffrey Coolidge, Getty Images.In what has become an annual rite, the day after Thanksgiving, which marks the official start of the Christmas shopping season, Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, and other retailers announce massive discounts on televisions, video games, and toys.effrey Coolidge, Getty Images. In what has become an annual rite, the day after Thanksgiving, which marks the official start of the Christmas shopping season, Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, and other retailers announce massive discounts on televisions, video games, and toys.
If you own an international investment, events within that country can affect your investment (political risk and currency risk, to name two). There are other types of risk. How easy or hard it is to cash out of an investment when you need to is called liquidity risk. Another risk factor is tied to how many or how few investments you hold. Generally speaking, the more financial eggs you have in one basket, say all your money in a single stock, the greater risk you take (concentration risk ...