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Dow Soars to New Highs: Should You Insure Your Gains with Gold?
March 14, 2013The champagne was popping last week as the Dow set a new all-time record, eclipsing the one set in October, 2007. The buy and ho...
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Regal Bank's Featured Business of the Month
March 5, 2013Regal Bank's Featured Business of the Month is Livingston Sunoco Livingston, NJ - Michael Inlander is a man who truly en...
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Junk Bonds: Much Risk, Little Reward
February 20, 2013High yield bonds (a/k/a “junk bonds”) are a bad bet today. Prices are too high, risks ignored. That&rsqu...
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Can ’13 Match ’12? Investment Themes and Picks for the New Year
December 24, 2012David Dietze JD, CFA, CFP is President and Chief Investment Strategist of Point View Wealth Management, Inc. in Summit, NJ. Read M...
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Muni Bonds - is the Party Over?
December 11, 2012Investors' love affair with munis is deepening. Although muni bond funds have been around for 34 years, ten percent of all funds i...
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Closed End Fund Bargains Amid Stealth Bull Market!
October 3, 2012Defying the experts, Main Street, and the media, US stock markets have engineered an amazing comeback. Despite the worst economi...
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Twelve Tips for a Better 401K!
September 25, 2012Many employees a generation ago could look forward to a predictable pension at retirement. Employers were responsible for investing th...
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Inherited IRAs
August 27, 2012If you are a beneficiary of an estate that includes an IRA, we have two words for you: It’s complicated. Most estate assets ...
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Reveton Ransomware Takes Computers Hostage
August 23, 2012FBI warns of new internet scam - Reveton ransomware Recently the FBI and the IC3 issued a warning about a new ransomware virus, Re...
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Investment risks and remedies
August 14, 2012This year has been another roller coaster ride for investors. The sovereign debt problems in Europe are hanging on like a bad co...
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Don’t Let Your Money Vacation This August! Four Ways to Make More and Lose Less
August 10, 2012Amid the long hot days of the summer our thoughts turn to vacation, with languorous days on the beaches or in the mountains. But...
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3 Ways to Minimize the Impact of an Email Outage
August 3, 2012Email is down! Everyone panic! For many small businesses, email is the primary method of communicating with their c...
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Flood Insurance Awareness
July 29, 2012After Hurricane Irene here at the Heights Agency, we've been reminded of the utter importance of supplemental flood insurance in p...
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The Score at Halftime Is...
July 26, 2012First of all, the most amazing statistic to begin with is that half of 2012 is gone. So much has occurred this year whether it b...
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Turn Your iPad or Android into a Wireless Touchscreen Monitor
July 26, 2012If you've even needed a 2nd monitor or wished you could walk around the house, office or store with your desktop Avatron has a s...
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Windows XP and Office 2003 support to end – what you need to know
June 21, 2012The end of an era I admit it, I am going to miss Windows XP. I know it like the back of my hand and still prefer it to Windo...
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LifeBridge: FREE LIFE INSURANCE
May 3, 2012MassMutual Financial Group offers FREE Life Insurance called LifeBridge LifeBridge will help give income - elgible parents and leg...
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An Education in Paying for College
March 29, 2012College acceptance letters are out, and millions of high school seniors are eagerly anticipating the next step in their educational li...
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Should You “Friend” the Facebook IPO?
March 5, 2012The media hype is underway about Facebook’s plan to go public. Whispers set a $100 billion price tag on the social media g...
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Hiring an Employee: What Businesses Need to know
February 20, 2012Since opening your business you have been chief cook and bottle washer. You have now decided that you need to hire someone to as...
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Searching NJ Business Names - For Free
February 15, 2012Searching the “availability” of business names in NJ was, at one time, free and easy. The good news is that it’s sti...
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Ask a Trust Officer: 401(k) Protection Programs
January 17, 2012DEAR TRUST OFFICER: When I retire in about a year, I’m expecting a six-figure distribution from my employer’s 401(k)...
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What is a “fiduciary”?
January 4, 2012You might get investment advice from any of the following sources: &nbs...
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Is Your New Year’s Resolution to Get More Customers?
January 3, 2012Is your New Year’s resolution to grow your business and get more customers? You’re off to a great start! But where wil...
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An Executor’s Dilemma
December 27, 2011Kresimir Telesmanich had a difficult problem when he was named executor of his uncle’s estate. The uncle, who died in 2000...