Archive for April, 2007

$50 Bonus for Opening a HSBC Premium Money Market Account

Posted by Sun on April 28, 2007 (0) Comment

From now till May 31, 2007, if you open a HSBC Premium Money Market Plus Savings Account with an initial deposit of $3,000, you can get a $50 bonus. For the money market account:

No monthly maintenance fee
No minimum balance
Tiered money market rate

And the terms of this offer:
To qualify for the cash bonus, customers must open [...]

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Categories : Banking, Bonus, Free money, Personal finance Tags: No Tags

Around the PF Blogosphere: April 27, 2007

Posted by Sun on April 27, 2007 (1) Comment

Friday night readings:

Free Money Finance joins the discussion on whether the government should bail out the subprime lenders and goes on to ask “Can we please have some more rersonal responsibility in our finances?”

Five Cents Nickel shares his experience on saving money by asking for some extra discount. Why stop at getting a “Match” [...]

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Taking the First Step to Simplicity

Posted by Sun on April 27, 2007 (5) Comment

Last night when I called American Express to dispute the seemingly never ending charges on my Costco card from Netherlands (yes, it came again and AMEX only told me to be [more] patient after 8 weeks of investigation), I took the first step toward simplifying our finance by asking AMEX to close one of my [...]

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Low-Cost Vanguard Goes with Even Lower Costs

Posted by Sun on April 26, 2007 (5) Comment

Good news mutual fund investors!
Low-cost mutual fund giant Vanguard announced today that it’s simplifying its fee structure by replacing four fees with one account service fee. According to the announcement, effective April 26, 2007, the following four $10 annual fees will be eliminated:

The custodial fee on traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, and SEP–IRAs with a balance [...]

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Where I Put Our Emergency Money

Posted by Sun on April 26, 2007 (13) Comment

Ben at Money Smart Life is hosting the second edition of What’s Your Money Question? this week (the first edition is right here) and this time the questions asked is
Is there such thing as saving too much money in an emergency fund? What’s the best place to keep the money you do save so it [...]

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