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Todd Tresidder - Founder/Author

Todd began Financial Mentor in 1998 out of the need for an unbiased source of high quality financial education that separates financial advice from investment products sales. He likes to write about advanced wealth strategy, retirement planning, and advanced investment strategy for readers who are past the "7 Tips To Save $100" drivel found elsewhere and are ready to take the next step.

Reduce Your Risk by Increasing Leverage – 5 Uncommon Strategies

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When you think of leverage, what comes to mind? If you’re like most people, it’s some form of financial leverage – mortgage financing or debt financing – using other people’s money. You probably also think leverage is risky. But the truth is financial leverage is only one of six different types of leverage. Worse yet, it’s the most dangerous type of leverage because it increases risk as much as reward. The other five types of leverage can both decrease risk and increase reward… at the same time! So let’s pull these five other categories of leverage out of the shadows so you know how to multiply your wealth growth by taking less risk…

Leverage – How To Fast-Track Your Financial Goals

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Nobody gets rich without leverage. If you aren’t employing leverage in your business and wealth plans, it means you’re compromising the speed, time, and work effort necessary to reach each level of success. Leverage isn’t difficult to master; it’s something you can implement right away and then reap the benefits for years to come. It’s time for you to stop working harder than you should to earn less than you could. Discover how to accelerate your financial growth in this article…

Expectancy – Millionaire Math That Converts Uncertainty into Profit

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How can you reliably profit from investing when the future is unknowable and the markets appear to be random? It’s the same answer that that will help you consistently grow your career and improve your earning capacity, and it will also help you reliably grow your wealth so that your financial goals are simply a question of “when”, not “if”? The answer is mathematical expectancy. This “must-learn” principle shows you how to convert an unknowable and uncertain future into statistical confidence producing a reliable outcome. When you understand how mathematical expectancy works, it will change how you play the wealth building game forever. Read this article to learn more…

FM 025: FIRE Case Study with Chris Mamula

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Get FIRE! Discover Chris Mamula’s failures and wins to achieve financial independence early retirement in just 5 years. It’s easier than you think.

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Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere – How To Protect Yourself

Do you have a risk management strategy for market bubbles? Learn everything you need to know in this guide.

All of the major markets are in extreme overvaluation territory creating extraordinary risk of loss. But this has been true for years so why the warning now? Discover the 4 symptoms that separate bubbles that burst from simple overvaluation, and find out how current market conditions stack up. Are we on the precipice of a collapse, or are we at the beginning of a sudden, final price acceleration? This complete analysis will give you all the facts and show you how to manage your risk of loss for the inevitable fall around the corner…

FM 024: How To Pay For College When You Don’t Qualify for Financial Aid, with Brad Baldridge & Jocelyn Paonita

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Paying for your kids college is one of the biggest expenses you’ll face. Many schools are so expensive that you could give your child a paid-off home and a secure retirement for what the education will cost. To make matters worse, the chances are good you won’t qualify for need-based aid to help with the bill. So what are the strategies you can use to make college affordable? In this podcast interview, I provide proven strategies from two separate experts in back-to-back interviews providing a complete guide to making college affordable when you don’t qualify for need-based financial aid…

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5 Rules For Getting The Best Financial Advice For Your Money

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Do you know all the ways your financial adviser profits from your account? What’s the difference between a broker and a financial adviser? If you can’t answer both of these questions with confidence you’re not alone. Multiple studies show investors are confused – and for good reason. Compensation, both hidden and disclosed, has evolved in recent years. The formerly clear lines of demarcation between different financial advisory roles have been blurred. Why should you care? The reason is compensation structure – how you pay for the financial advice your receive, and the conflicts of interest it causes – affect the quality of advice you receive. This article will show you how to get the best financial advice for your money…

6 Disturbing Truths Your Financial Expert Won’t Disclose… But Should

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Most of us look to financial experts for their knowledge and advice because, well, they’re experts. We pay them for that knowledge because we lack it ourselves. Unfortunately, that knowledge isn’t always as valuable as you might think, particularly when it comes to financial advice. In fact, it’s more valuable to become your own financial expert. Why? Financial professionals aren’t always right, and they don’t always invest with your best interests in mind. Discover how you can improve your investment performance by managing these inherent conflicts of interest…

3 Types of Investors – Which One Are You? Take This Test…

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There are three types of investors, but only one type is right for you. You must carefully match your investment strategy with your skills, resources, and interests if you want to achieve your financial goals as easy as possible. Many investment strategies won’t fit your financial situation. The good news is you can advance to another investment type with the right education and skill development. Take this test to gauge where you are at now and what the right next step will be for your situation…

The Great Financial Forecasting Hoax: Why Stock Market Predictions Are Dangerous To Your Wealth

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Do you enjoy feeling out of control when investing in the market? Of course not. No one does. This loss of control is because the essence of investing is putting capital at risk into an unknowable future. How do you profit reliably when the future is unknowable? It’s a complicated question. Unfortunately, most people respond to this innate uncertainty by seeking financial forecasters – from talking heads on CNBC to magazine and newspaper writers to financial analysts – to bring some sense of certainty to this unknowable future. They want to believe these soothsayers have enough foreknowledge about financial events to make a meaningful difference. Unfortunately, they don’t, and I’ll show you the facts to prove it. In addition, you’ll discover how to invest profitably without any need to make any prediction about the future.

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