Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Investing on Oct 2nd, 2008
A lot of people are stressing out over their investments right now and they want to do something, anything about it. Well, the best advice is probably to do nothing—but that doesn’t help to scratch that itch, so you can do things like check on your asset allocation to make sure everything is where it [...]
You’ve heard it everywhere (including here) — index funds are one of the best ways for people to invest in the stock market and get some slow, consistent growth over the long term. You also hear that you can’t beat the market. Index funds ARE the market, so there shouldn’t be any debate right? Some [...]
Posted in Investing on Jul 17th, 2008
First of all, let me remind everyone that I am a Warren Buffet disciple when it comes to investing — I believe that, when it comes to individual stock investing, what matters is the long term performance of a company. I am not a trader: I’m not interested in making a quick buck or in [...]
Or How a Routine is Helpful
As a part of my continual effort to educate myself more and more on all things finance-related, I do a daily read of certain sites: Yahoo Finance, MSN Money, USA Today Money and some other random ones. Sometimes I’ll go to a company’s Yahoo! stock ticker and see what stories [...]
When I switched jobs earlier this year, I was very good about rolling over my 401(k) plan from my old job. I did it as soon as I can and completed all the paperwork in a timely way. But the whole process meant that my money was out of the market for a month or [...]
Posted in Good Reads on Apr 28th, 2008
I hate doing entire posts dedicated to simply putting up links to other stuff on the web, but recently I’ve found a bunch of really good stuff to read and I wanted to share them with you, so here you go:
This guy Hates Bloggers: It’s all in jest, of course, but he brings up some [...]
Posted in Investing on Feb 25th, 2008
Trent over at The Simple Dollar wrote a post on index funds the other day and I felt compelled to add my two cents in the comments section. I found I had more to say about them and how great I think they are so I’ve decided to write a whole post about them here.
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Here is a great interview with index-fund king John Bogle.
I especially like his take on ETFs and how really they are nothing but speculative, glorified, more expensive index funds. Something I agree with wholeheartedly, especially for my retirement portfolio (which is my only portfolio right now).
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