Archive for July, 2007
Pay Ourselves First: The Way We Save and Invest
After I posted our latest score card update last week, MoneyNing asked me if I can share how we accumulated our net worth and the source of the growth, whether it’s from our salaries or investments.
Actually, I have touched this topic quite often in the past (for example, when we reached the half-million mark). For [...]
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Guest Post at Generation X Finance
A couple of days ago I provided a guest article to Jeremy at Generation X Finance when he was away on a business trip. The article, Mutual Fund Distribution Explained, gives some general ideas on what kind of distributions mutual funds usually pay their investors and the tax sequences of each distribution. It also talks [...]
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ShareBuilder Getting Flexible?
One of the problems I have with ShareBuilder, also one of the reasons I decided to leave ShareBuilder, is its lack of flexibility when it comes to choosing when to invest and how to invest. For instance, at the time when I joined the program, I could only select to invest on the first [...]
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All the Free Shavers
I love free stuff, as much as I love free money.
Whenever I see a freebie offer, I try to get it. Sometimes I got it, sometimes I didn’t, but that’s fine as long as there’s no strings attached. I am OK with spending 10 minutes on a survey in order to get the free product, [...]
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Good Day Today
Any time we have stock markets rally like we experienced today, we can expect some good numbers from our investments. As the Dow had its biggest one-day increase in four years (283 points, or 2.09%), our wealth also got a boost with a number of stocks and funds posting 2.00+% gains, including:
Blackstone Group (BX): 2.81%
China [...]
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