Wealth Building

Improve My Fico Score 5 Key Components

Your FICO, or credit, score is calculated independently by the Big Three credit reporting agencies (viz., Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian) based upon a shared formula. Your score has a huge influence on your financial health. An improvement of just 40 or 50 points can mean paying hundreds less per month for a 30-year mortgage, for example. Anything you can do…

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Credit

Top 7 Questions About Your Credit Score

Here are the top 7 questions we hear from consumers about credit reports and credit scores… 1. Will closing paid off credit card accounts improve my credit score? This will surprise many of you, but closing paid off credit card accounts can actually hurt your score in two ways. In “Your Credit Score”, Liz Pulliam Weston explains: A. Closing accounts…

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Finance

Offshore Banking When It Pays To Go Abroad

While you might presume anyone with ‘money in offshore accounts’ is involved in some scurrilous business affairs, the truth is that anyone can use this form of investment as a totally legitimate way to defer or reduce your tax payments. Locations for offshore accounts can be held in banks in British waters – the Channel Islands or Isle of Man…

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Personal Finance

Not To Late To Make 2005 Ira Contribution

Many Americans make annual contributions to individual retirement accounts. If you haven’t done so for the 2005 tax year, you still can. Not To Late To Make 2005 IRA Contribution Contributing to individual retirement accounts just makes sense. Most don’t believe social security is going to survive for long. Even if it does, one has to wonder how small the…

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Wealth Building

When Not To Cancel Credit Cards

We have an article that details the benefits of canceling old, unused credit cards, but is this always a good idea? The answer to that is no. There are times when keeping a credit card line open is actually more beneficial to your overall credit health than closing it. One occasion when you might want to hold off on canceling…

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Disease Illness

10 Most Likely Cancers You Are Going To Get

One of the greatest concerns America has today is cancer. The figures are alarming according to the National Cancer Institute studies a total of 1,372,910 new cases of cancer and 570, 280 deaths were predicted for the year 2005. Approximately one in every four deaths is due to cancer. Research indicates that the lifetime probability of developing cancer is higher…

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