Archive for April, 2008
Weekend Linkage - April 20, 2008
Ten Ways You Can Teach Your Kids About Money Money Smart Life discussed how to prepare your kids the financial life they will live later on with some practical ways that you can use to teach them about money today.
Play the Annual Invest Lazy Man’s Money Game If you have $4,000 now, how would [...]
Chinese Currency (RMB) vs. US Dollar
The other day, one of my friends who will travel to China next week sent me a link to a chart. It is the 5-year relationship between Chinese currency and US dollar. I know that Chinese Yuan (RMB) has appreciated quite a bit since the pegging ended in July 2005. I also noticed [...]
Morningstar’s Best and Worst 529 College Savings Plans
Really, I almost got a heart attack when I saw Ohio CollegeAdvantage is among the worst college savings plans published by Morningstar yesterday because that’s the one I opened for our younger daughter last year. Fortunately, what I have isn’t exactly what’s named in the Morningstar list.
Anyway, Morningstar yesterday published its annual ranking of the [...]
RevolutionMoneyExchange Referral Bonus Sharing Program Update
I have been running my RevolutionMoneyExchange referral bonus sharing program, since I wrote a review in early March and a few people used my referral to signup with RME (thanks). While they received the $25 bonus from RME, I also got $10 for each new account I referred. When I first started the bonus sharing [...]
PowerShares Launched Four Active ETFs
Less than a month after Bear Stearns became the first firm ever to offer actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF), PowerShares, an major player in the ETF arena, introduced its own active ETFs last Friday. The four new ETFs, including both equity and fixed income funds, are:
PowerShares Active AlphaQ Fund (PQY)
PowerShares Active Alpha Multi-Cap Fund (PQZ)
PowerShares [...]
