Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Weekend Linkage - June 29, 2008
Check out these excellent readings from The Money Writers and elsewhere around the PF blogosphere.
9 Ways to Save Without Breaking a Sweat I can add one more to make it 10 ways: Use automatic invesment plan when possible to invest in mutual funds.
Rate Your […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Weekend Linkage - June 22, 2008
Check out these excellent readings from The Money Writers and elsewhere around the PF blogosphere.
ETFs vs. Mutual Funds: Which One is Right for You? “There is no right or wrong answer, and there is no single product that fits all scenarios. In fact, there […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Weekend Linkage - June 15, 2008
Check out these excellent readings from The Money Writers and elsewhere around the PF blogosphere.
“If you want to be around people who inspire you to wealth, who is better? Someone who is just starting out in life, with few assets - a horrible apartment, […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Weekend Linkage - June 8, 2008
The following articles are from The Money Writers and elsewhere around the PF blogosphere.
Make Money Now Versus Make Money Later My choice is always to make money whenever I can. It’s not that I don’t like the 50% chance of making twice as much […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Hope you enjoy these articles from The Money Writers and friends.
Invest in What You Know Did Warren Buffet say that? Even if he didn’t say the exact sentence, he did stay away from business that he doesn’t know.
From Bad Investing Habits To Investing Sins: Many Unhappy Returns Did you […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Check out the following articles form The Money Writers and beyond.
Reader Mail: How Do I Reduce Investment Fees? @ Million Dollar Journey Stay away from load funds, buy funds with lower expense ratio, and avoid frequent trading of stocks (unless you do zero-commission trading). Well, these are actually my […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Personal Finance Across Borders I - Retirement Accounts Million Dollar Journey compared retirement saving accounts offered in the U.S. and Canada. No much difference I have to say.
7 Tips to Simplify Today Brip Blap offers some ideas to live a simple life. The one I like the most is […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Health Insurance for New College Graduates - Shopping Around for Affordable Coverage Money Smart Life provided tips for newly grads can get health insurance.
Finovate Demos Lazy Man and Money blogged live from Finovate Startup last week. Lots of new names in the business of personal finance.
Is it Smart to […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Best Gas Credit Cards to Save You Money at the Pump Money Smart Life suggested use credit cards to save money when filling up your car. Some of them are also covered in my previous post. With gas price near $4/gallon, a 3% rebate isn’t too small to let […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Ten Ways You Can Teach Your Kids About Money Money Smart Life discussed how to prepare your kids the financial life they will live later on with some practical ways that you can use to teach them about money today.
Play the Annual Invest Lazy Man’s Money Game If […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Lending Club is Dead Are you using the social lending site to borrow/lend money? Lazy Man and Money saw signs that the site may be in trouble.
Woman Refuses to Roll Over 401k Saying She Would Lose Half of Her Money Generation X Finance encountered a person who told […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Check out these interesting discussions:
Want to stretch your dollars? The Digerati Life listed frugal some tips to make your ordinary things last a little longer so you don’t have to spend a lot of money to replace them. Meanwhile, My Dollar Plan also shared 30 money saving ideas she […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Is Generation X Responsible for the Real Estate and Mortgage Problems? Generation X Finance talked about the trouble of the housing market and the place of Gen X in the economy.
How Money Challenges Prevent You From Building The Life You Love The Digerati Life offered her opinion on […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Hope you enjoy these articles:
Don’t know how to determine the asset allocation of your portfolio? The Dividend Guy says you probably can get some ideas from asset allocations of pension funds. Another place I can suggest is the portfolios of lifecycle funds (or target-date funds) which adjust their holdings […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
crowdsourcing at Birp Blap
Crowdsourcing is - at a very basic level - throwing a task or request for information out into the public, and accumulating and selecting the best results. The theory is similar to “getting a second opinion.”
Managing Your Money is Easier Said Than Done at Money Smart […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Here are some articles I found worth reading:
Consumerism Commentary has a post on a study which shows that payday loans cause more bankruptcies. The conclusion should be of no surprise if you know what payday loan is and how it works.
Haven’t filed your tax return yet? Check out a […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Ben at Money Smart Life has some idea on how to spend a bonus check. I am quit boring and I don’t treat a bonus check any differently than other checks I receive every other week: put it in my bank.
Lazy Man at Lazy Man and Money wondered whether […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Here are some articles that I found interesting today:
AllFinancialMatters built a all-ETF retirement portfolio model with equal allocation to six sectors plus cash. I am not surprised by the portfolio’s calculated return so far this year given how much commodities have gained. It also emphasizes the importance of having […]
Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Do you file your tax return yourself? Or you get a pro to do the job for you? Ben at Money Smart Life wondered whether the cost of expert tax advice worth it. If they can lower my tax bill, then Yes.
How do you like the idea that IRS […]
Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life talked about ways to increase your income so you can get ahead.
Are Americans saving too much for retirement? Jeremy at Generation X Finance had a post that Yes, at least according to one man’s account.
Lazy Man at Lazy Man and Money shared his experience on how to […]
Today’s reading:
Wise Bread suggested rolling your own cost-of-living index. The idea is fine (because you have to track your spending first), but it’s much easier said than done and the result could be misleading.
Mipgirl’s Fiscal Challenge has an excellent idea on what you can do when you stuck in traffic on your way home: save […]
Here are some interesting reads for today:
Single Guy Money shared his best and worst financial decisions, together with a bunch of other bloggers.
The Dividend Guy discussed whether small-cap stocks should be part of a dividend portfolio. Small-cap has a place in a diversified portfolio, whether it’s dividend oriented or not.
Moment on Money took a look […]
Interesting articles today:
AskDong says now may be the time to buy TIPS, Treasury inflation protected securities. The argument is the recent rate cut by the Federal Reserve could spur inflation, making TIPS appealing.
Everybody Loves Your Money shows your net worth and your age. Looks like I should be in my 50’s now from the […]
Articles hope you will enjoy:
Wise Bread talks about how dollar-cost averaging can ease your nerve in a choppy market. However, DCA may not be the best investment strategy as you may think.
Personal Finance Advise asks the priority between paying off credit card debt and building an emergency fund. It didn’t go well with me last […]
Hope you enjoy these articles:
The Skilled Investor talks about how individual investors can evaluate investments and securities risk.
Quarterlife Finance argues why you should invest internationally. How about the US economy, though still the largest, is only a small portion of the world economy?
My Wealth Builder discusses the balance between create and preserve wealth.
Blunt Money has […]
