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John Bogle founded The Vanguard Group in the 1970s and built it into the second largest mutual fund company in the world with current assets of $2 trillion. Bogle is also largely responsible for making Index Funds available to small investors.
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Continue ReadingA key benefit of owning your own business is the ability to enjoy fully the fruits of your labor. Entrepreneurship is one of the main ways to achieve financial independence. But some people, however, are taking issue with the high levels of compensation paid out at some small businesses.
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Continue ReadingThe California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CALPERS) is the pension fund for the state’s municipal workers. It is one of the largest pension funds in the world, with over $250 billion under management, and it has great influence across other pensions in the country.
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Continue ReadingThe Internet is becoming a very dangerous place to do business and small companies are the most vulnerable. Leading security corporation Symantec released its 2013 Internet Security Threat Report recently and the results are chilling. The number of targeted cyber attacks rose 42 percent last year.
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Continue ReadingOver the past two trading days, gold futures prices plummeted over $200 per ounce, the largest dollar-based drop since trading began in the U.S. in 1974. On percentage terms, prices fell almost 10 percent, a 30-year record in itself. Gold is considered a safe haven investment where people and institutions park [...]
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Continue ReadingEva Rosenberg at MarketWatch brings up a great point—everyone thinks that April is tax month because returns are due on the fifteenth. While that’s true, it’s only one of the several tax return deadlines that affect small-business owners over the course of the month.
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Continue ReadingWhile the sequestration-related budget cuts are no longer front-page news, their impact is only just beginning. One of the agencies that has been impacted is the Small Business Administration, which uses a significant portion of its budget to secure small-business loans.
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Continue ReadingDuring the Great Recession, most companies modified their executive travel policies. Eliminating business-class travel, flying at off hours to buy cheaper tickets, using online reviews and social media to find deals and avoiding activities that generate extra fees were just some of the changes implemented in an effort to save money.
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Continue ReadingInventory shrinkage, a fancy term meaning theft, is a huge problem for retailers. Over $90 million worth of inventory disappears from warehouses and store shelves across the country every single day. What is most disappointing is that an estimated 44 percent of shrinkage is perpetrated by employees.
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Continue ReadingA large-scale “guest worker” program may finally be on the horizon in the United States again after a contentious but successful negotiation by labor, business and political leaders. Despite highly passionate views on immigration from all sides…
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