Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time
By Sun on Mar 31, 2008 in Personal finance | 8 Comments
I was really impressed the other day when I found out that Provident Direct, a little known online bank, was offering 4.50% APY with their high-yield savings account, when everybody else was paying almost a full percentage point less. At that time, I was thinking of getting a new account if they won’t dramatically lower […]
By Sun on Mar 30, 2008 in PF blogoshpere | 1 Comment
Is Generation X Responsible for the Real Estate and Mortgage Problems? Generation X Finance talked about the trouble of the housing market and the place of Gen X in the economy.
How Money Challenges Prevent You From Building The Life You Love The Digerati Life offered her opinion on the financial challenges we are facing […]
By Sun on Mar 28, 2008 in Bonus, Free money | 0 Comments
Citibank is currently having a promotion for their Ultimate Savings Account and the reward is 40,000 ThankYou points which can be redeemed for 2 round-trip tickets, with each valued up to $400. To get the bonus points:
Open a Citibank regular checking account, link it to a new or existing Citibank Ultimate Savings Account and […]
By Sun on Mar 27, 2008 in PF blogoshpere | 0 Comments
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Don’t know how to determine the asset allocation of your portfolio? The Dividend Guy says you probably can get some ideas from asset allocations of pension funds. Another place I can suggest is the portfolios of lifecycle funds (or target-date funds) which adjust their holdings based the target date.
Moneymonk has a […]
By Sun on Mar 27, 2008 in Personal finance | 1 Comment
I reviewed SmartyPig a couple of days ago. Though in general the concept presented by SmartyPig, social+savings, is good, my biggest concern is the cost of letting others contribute to my saving goal. Paying $4.95 each time to make a $50 contribution doesn’t make a whole lot sense.
Then yesterday, I got an message from Jon, […]
By Sun on Mar 26, 2008 in Brokerage, Investing | 5 Comments
Last week, I wrote about my experience with Scottrade when I was trying to place an order of Visa (V) when the markets opened. The day after that post was published, I got an email from Chris, Chief Marketing Officer of Scottrade, who expressed concern why I had to wait so long before being connected […]
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