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 [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Finance on Jan 16th, 2008
As I wrote last week, it’s very rare that I come across a piece of news or an article that is relevant to all the topics this blog pretends to cover: advertising, writing, and personal finance.
So when I came across this article on Morningstar.com, I was like “Okay, maybe it’s not so rare.”
The article takes [...]
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Posted in Finance, Investing on Dec 27th, 2007
One of my favorite authors/people/writers has another new one out, this time an article in Portfolio magazine called “The Evolution of an Investor.”
It’s a really interesting profile of a guy named Blaine Lourd and how he went from Wall Street trader to joining a cult-like organization called DFA.
As all Lewis pieces, it’s very interesting and [...]
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Posted in Finance, Investing on Oct 24th, 2007
It really shouldn’t be one vs. the other, which is what this Q & A addresses.
I have both and I just love the flexibility of the Roth. I run it through Scottrade and I’m very happy with my options there. Eventually I want to move it to Vanguard, but I need to have more money [...]
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