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Welcome to theFinancial.org

Our goal is to provide a painless way to increase your investment knowledge so you have more control over your financial future without committing extraordinary amounts of time.

All of the articles on this website were written by five star rated financial planners and financial advisors who are profiled in the Paladin Registry (www.paladinregistry.com). We used our proprietary rating methodology to review each advisor's credentials, ethics, business practices, and services before they were invited to submit articles to this site.

This website is an easy way to learn from high quality professionals so you know good advice when you hear it. Plus, the content will help your avoid charlatans, who call themselves experts, but use deceptive sales tactics to sell you bad advice and bad investment products.

This learning process is as easy as choosing a Category of Articles on the left-side navigation and selecting an article. You can also print the article, send it to a friend, learn more about the author and contact the professional.

Short articles are an ideal way to learn because you don't have to commit big blocks of time. It only takes a few minutes to read an article, then you have the knowledge forever.

The best way to learn is in small increments and you don't move on until you understand the content. That's why being able to ask questions is an important feature of this service and you don't move to the next article until you have mastered the content of the current article.

You should focus on information that will help you understand the process that is being used to invest your assets. This knowledge will help you ask the right questions, identify problems sooner, and develop well thought-out solutions that make sense to you. This entire process is applicable whether you manage your own assets or hire a professional to do it for you.

Increased knowledge will also foster better communications with your financial advisors. It certainly would have helped investors who were the victims of Bernie Madoff's fraudulent investment scheme. There were several warning signs, if only the investors knew enough to recognize them. These investors could have avoided billions of dollars of losses if they knew what to look for.

This is an easy solution, but it won't help unless you commit a modest amount of time on a weekly basis. A little time now could make you or save you a lot of money later.

It is easy to “believe” third parties who are investing your assets for you – after all, they are the experts. But, this is like the fox guarding the chicken coop (your assets) when you are dependent on advisors who can make more money doing what's best for them (eating the chickens) versus you (achievement of long-term financial goals).

You don't have to learn to predict future stock market performance, analyze stocks, or manage portfolios. Leave that to the professionals. But, you do have to know enough to protect your financial interests from bad advice and bad products. It is your money. You worked hard to get it, now you have to spend a little time learning to protect it.