Archive for February, 2007
A Piece of Hedge Fund (Company) Please
Hedge funds are for wealthy investors, not for small investors like you and me. But what if you can own a piece of the hedge fund company?
According to USAToday, Fortress Investment Group , which has six hedge funds with a total about $9.4 billion of assets under management, has filed paper to offer 34.3 million [...]
Lifecycle Funds: Does One Size Fit All?
Lifecycle funds (or target-date funds), are gaining popularity these days and become an ideal vehicle for retirement savings for people who don’t have the time or knowledge to do their own research in selecting funds to build a well diversified portfolio. With lifecycle funds, the biggest advantage is automatic asset allocation. By investing in a [...]
Top 65 PF Blogs by Technorati Ranking
OK, so far we have seen rankings of personal finance bloggers by del.icio.us bookmarks (Will Chen @ Wise Bread), Feedburner feeds (Yan @ ProBargainHuner), and Alexa’s traffic scores (Jim @ Blueprint for Financial Prosperity). I think it’s fun to read the list and decided to come up with yet another one using another gauge to [...]
State of My Credit Cards: Use Them, but Responsibly
The last time I checked my credit score was last June and it was 699, largely due to the more than $50,000 0% balance transfers I put on four cards. At that time, I used FICO’s Score Simulator to estimate what my score will be if I pay off all the balances by the end [...]
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