Author: Collin Masters

Top 10 ETFs By Net Assets
The top 10 largest etfs by net assets gathered from Yahoo Finance on April 29th, 2024. Notes: T means trillion, B means Billion. What is a ETF? read: ETF: What is it?

ETF: What is it?
An ETF is exchanged-traded-fund, this can be traded like a stock, multiple times throughout the day. Contray to a mutual fund where you can only trade once daily. ETFs hold a basket of securities and allows investors to become diversified within a category and/or multiple categories. Creating an easier way for self-investor to diversfy. Each…

Capital Gains Tax: A Tax Based on Certain Assets Sold
Capital gains tax (also known as tax cgt) is based on assets sold for profit for individual. These assets can be stocks, bonds, real estate, collections, and digital assets. Review the federal guidelines and your state guidelines. Federally there is a tax rate and mutliple states have their own tax rate on top of the…

Does Google Pay Dividends?
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced on April 25th, 2024 that it will pay their first dividend of 20 cents per share. The first pay out will be on June 17th, 2024, ex-dividend data is projected for June 10th, 2024. Google Dividends Pros This is a big move for dividend investors creating another option. ETFs, mutual…

States with the Lowest Property Tax Rates in 2024
Property tax is collected from local governments, generally based on the property values. Differnet states rank well with a lowest tax rate, just depending on the type of tax or state, but not all. This tax helps pay for schools, roads, community programs, ect… All the rates can be different for each county and state…

File an Extension: Deadline to file taxes
October 15th, 2026 is the extension filing deadline for taxes for those whom will file for an extension for their 2025 federal taxes. It is always smart to make sure you have all the paperwork needed to file your taxes as soon as possible to avoid missing the extended deadline. Add this date to your…





