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Weekend Linkage - June 29, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - June 22, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - June 15, 2008

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, […]

Weekend Linkage - June 8, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - June 1, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - May 18, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - May 11, 2007

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - May 4, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - April 27, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - April 20, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - April 13, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - March 30, 2008

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 […]

Around the PF Blogosphere: March 27, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - March 23, 2008

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 […]

Around the PF Blogosphere: March 20, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - March 16, 2008

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 […]

Around the PF Blogosphere: March 13, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - March 9, 2008

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 […]

Weekend Linkage - March 2, 2008

Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Want to read some good books on personal finance? Jeremy at Generation X Finance listed 20 books that will change your life and how you think about retirement. A lot of catchup for me at least because I, sadly, didn’t read any of them
Ben at Money […]

Weekend Linkage - February 17, 2008

Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Jeremy at Generation X Finance redefined risk. and argued that investing in stock markets is not as risky as you would think. I heard investing in bonds, which is considered as safe heaven, actually is in the long term.
Ben at Money Smart Life described his flood pain and how […]
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Weekend Linkage - February 10, 2008

Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
Ben at Money Smart Life suggested buy stuff in the off season to save money. Sure, lot of people shop after Christmas to prepare for next Christmas’s gifts and decorations.
There are many ways to improve your credit score. In fact, as many as 15 ways to get a better […]

Weekend Linkage - January 27, 2008

Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary
What’s Regulation D fee? I have no idea until I read the post on Generation X Finance, where Jeremy explained what transactions could trigger the elusive Regulation D savings account fee.
If you are interested in investing in real estate, be sure to check out the post, 7 Things to […]

Weekend Linkage - January 20, 2007

Relocating? Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life provided an informative post on how to control the cost of moving from one cit to another.
Have you ever heard of 401(k) debit card? I never until I read the post by Jeremy at Generation X Finance, in which he declared that it could be one of […]

Weekend Linkage - January 13, 2007

Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life offered some debt defying strategies to get rid of your debt.
Jeremy at Generation X Finance looked at the current market condition and urged not to make drastic long term decisions based on short term market fluctuations.
Ben at Money Smart Life continued discussions on taxes. This time, he discussed […]

Weekend Linkage - November 18, 2007

Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life suggested 15 painless ways to force yourself to save by paying yourself first.
Jeremy at Generation X Finance said it’s time for generation X to grow up and get ahead with their own retirement savings. It’s never too early to plan for the future.
Lazy Man at Lazy Man and […]

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