Archive for March, 2007

Class Action Settlement with Equifax and Fair Isaac (myFICO): Get 3 Free Months of Score Watch

Posted by Sun on March 6, 2007 (5) Comment

I received this email notice this morning about the class action settlement for cases Hillis v. Equifax Consumer Services, Inc. and Fair Isaac Corp., Case No. 1:04-CV-3400 (USDC, ND GA) and Slack v. Fair Isaac Corp. and MyFICO Consumer Services, Inc., Case No. 1:07-CV-314 (USDC, ND GA):
You may be eligible to receive a benefit from [...]

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Understanding M*’s Mutual Fund Risk Measures: Alpha, Beta, and R-squared

Posted by Sun on March 6, 2007 (3) Comment

[This is the third segment of Understanding M* series (first part Understanding M*'s Star Rating, second part Understanding M*'s Total Return and Investor Return)].
Morningstar is the my primary website for mutual fund research. When I look for a mutual fund investment (mostly actively managed funds), not only I am concerned with a fund’s past performance [...]

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Categories : Investing, Mutual fund Tags: No Tags

Deal: Kingston TravelLite Reader With 2GB Secure Digital Card for $14.95

Posted by Sun on March 5, 2007 (0) Comment

Buy.com now has Kingston TravelLite Reader With 2GB Secure Digital Card [Affiliate link] for $14.95 after $12 mail-in rebate (expires March 10, 2007) with free shipping.
Fry.com has SanDisk 2GB Ultra II CompactFlash Card for $19.99 after $15 mail-in rebate (expires March 6, 2007) with free shipping.
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Invest in Gold (II) — GoldMoney: Buy Gold and Use it as a Checking Account

Posted by Sun on March 5, 2007 (7) Comment

This is the second part of the Invest in Gold series. In the first part, I compared several gold dealers, mainly from the angle of price (price of the gold, shipping fees, and insurance charges), and the direct outcome of that research was the purchase of a gold coin myself last week from Bullion Direct.
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Categories : Alternative, Investing Tags: No Tags

John Bogle: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

Posted by Sun on March 4, 2007 (1) Comment

This is not a book review, but rather from an article I read yesterday on SmartMoney.com.
The article, “John Bogle Says ETFs a Mistake for Many Investors,” cited Mr. Bogle, founder of Vanguard and pioneer of index mutual funds, as saying that with a flood of new ETF offerings, investors are “performance-chasing” by investing in ETFs [...]

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Categories : Book, ETF, Investing Tags: No Tags