Archive for August, 2006
MSFT Shares Stay With Me, For Now
I received in the mail a notice from Microsoft today regarding their announced share buy back plan. The offered cash price is between $22.50 to $24.75 per share and the offer will expire on August 17, 2006.
Currently I have 200 Microsoft shares, purchased in November 2004, days before their special $3 dividend distribution. Since [...]
Loaded More Nortel Shares
I bought another 320 shares of Nortel Network, at $1.99, with some dividend money accumulated in my Scottrade account. This brings the totoal number of shares I owned to 2720. Since early 2002, I have been on and off with NT several times and when I first bought NT in 2002, the shares were traded [...]
Partial Transfer to Vanguard
Well, after a long delay, I finally called Vanguard this morning to check out the possibility of transferring my Roth IRA assets currently at Scottrade to Vanguard. I currently have a total of five funds in my portfolio and four of them are Vanguard funds: VTSMX, VWELX, VGTSX, and VIPSX. The only exception is [...]
Enhanced Login: Is It Really Necessary?
Think you have enough online passwords to remember? How about adding a couple of more questions each you try to access your account?
Recently, there is a wave to improve securities at several financial institutions by adopting the so-call “enhanced login process.� For the past month, among various accounts I own, I have seen HSBC Direct, [...]
Save Now, Girls!
I came cross an article on SmartMoney.com yesterday titled “The Girl’s Guide to Retirement,� and there are some interesting numbers in the article that caught my attention.
Everybody knows women tend to live longer than men (on average five years longer), yet when it comes to retirement expectations, women usually underestimate the amount they need in [...]
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