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June 2008 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth

Posted by Sun on July 1, 2008 (5) Comment

U. S. stock market fell hard in June 2008, so did our paper wealth (because most of our assets are stocks with only value on paper). When the Dow closed the month at two-year low, there isn’t really anything good to expect and that’s exactly what happened to our net worth.
After two consecutive monthly gains [...]

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May 2008 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth

Posted by Sun on June 2, 2008 (1) Comment

It’s that time of the month again to see how we did in May.
After seeing a robust 9.25% growth in April, our net worth changed modestly last month, gaining 2.11%. That’s the second consecutive monthly increase. As of May 31, our net worth is at $605,520.98, up $12,489.11 from April, thanks to another month of [...]

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April 2008 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth

Posted by Sun on May 1, 2008 (2) Comment

After five straight monthly loses, we finally saw some meaningful increase in our paper wealth in April, thanks to a strong showing in the stock markets. Our net worth has suffered huge losses since last November when stocks peaked and started trading lower and lower amid financial market turmoil. In the past five months, our [...]

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March 2008 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth

Posted by Sun on April 1, 2008 (5) Comment

Just when I thought maybe the worst was over last month after seeing a negligible drop in our next worth in February, we were hit again in March as the stock markets continued to struggle, though the amount lost on paper isn’t as bad as the first couple of months of 2008. In fact, except [...]

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February 2008 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth

Posted by Sun on March 3, 2008 (3) Comment

The harsh reality that the Dow lost more than 430 points in the last two trading days of February didn’t help when it comes the time to count our nest eggs. In fact, the benchmark held a little gain when the market closed on February 27th. But all three major indices sold off on the [...]

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January 2008 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth

Posted by Sun on February 4, 2008 (2) Comment

What used to make us, now broke us.
For a third time in a row, our paper fortune dropped after the broad market suffered deep decline in the first month of 2008. Our calculation showed that at the end of January 2008, our net worth, excluding house and vehicle related items, was at $551,521, down [...]

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Update: 2007 Passive Income

Posted by Sun on January 31, 2008 (3) Comment

When I posted our total passive income in 2007 in the middle of the month, one item missing from the calculation was interests earned from our purchases of 4-week T-bills in the first half of the year. Though I can go through all the transactions and figure out myself how much I have made, it [...]

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2007 Passive Income Summary

Posted by Sun on January 15, 2008 (10) Comment

One of the objectives we have is to generate incomes, dividends and capital gains, from our investments and hope one day these what I called passive incomes will replace the major part of our salaries before tapping into savings in our tax deferred accounts. In 2007, we continued to make progress in growing this part [...]

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2007 Year End Review (III): Performance and Asset Allocation

Posted by Sun on January 7, 2008 (0) Comment

This is the third part of our Year End Review, in which I have so far gone through financial moves we made in 2007 and how what we have done affected our net worth, which includes both new money and price appreciation of our existing investments. The latter is the subject of this part [...]

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2007 Year End Review (II): Net Worth

Posted by Sun on January 4, 2008 (5) Comment

This is the second part of my 2007 Year End Reviews. In the first part, I took a look at the financial moves we made last year. Now I want to see how what we did put where we are in the new year.
December 2007 update
Our net worth saw second consecutive monthly decline in December [...]

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