Archive for January, 2007
2006 Year-End Review III: Net Worth
This is the third part of my year-end review. In the first two segments of this review series, I looked our own contributions in 2006 and how a good market helped us in growing our net worth. Now it's time to see how we did exactly.
We started 2006 with a net worth of $294,299 [...]
December 2006 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
This is just a quick summary of how our net worth changed at the end of December 2006 from the previous month. As I am writing a detailed review on our net worth, which will be out tomorrow, I don't want to duplicate the contents.
As of December 31st, 2006, our net worth was $458,992, [...]
The First Carnival of Personal Finance of 2007
is now available at Mighty Bargain Hunter. Carnival host John did an excellent job by adding comments to all the submissions, making article selections much easier than with just a title. Articles that I found useful are
Living Without a Budget by Living Almost Large
Uncle Sam’s Revenge II: Allowances & Exemptions by A Financial Revolution
5 Keys [...]
A Financial Planner or a Financial Adviser?
Ever felt confused about what's financial planner and what's financial adviser? If you plan to seek professional help on your finances (I won't, at least for now), you better know the difference these two. A short article on MarketWatch.com today says that a financial planner
is an individual who helps you create a road map for [...]
2006 Year-End Review II: Performance
This is the second part of our 2006 year-end review. In the first part, we looked at what we have done in 2006 in order to grow our nest egg. The main contributer to our net worth is our regular contributions to all accounts. In fact, we totally added about $87,608 new money into our [...]
