Investing

Making the Case of Having Alternative Investments in Portfolio

Posted by Sun on July 3, 2007 (15) Comment

In the July issue of Financial Planning, there’s an article about including alternative investments such as energy, precious metal, real estate, etc, in portfolio and how they will impact the overall returns of portfolios with and without these assets. This isn’t the first time I read papers that argue the case of having commodities, even [...]

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Who Takes Back the Pennies?

Posted by Sun on June 30, 2007 (10) Comment

When I was in the process of getting a Zecco trading account a couple of weeks ago, it really surprised me when Zecco took back the two small trial deposits from my checking account after the account verification process was completed. The total of 40 cents was nothing, but the action itself speaks more than [...]

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Account Transfer from ShareBuilder to Zecco: The Information You Need

Posted by Sun on June 28, 2007 (12) Comment

Last week I posted an entry on transferring my account at ShareBuilder to Zecco. After the post was published, I got an email from Drew who is interested in some more information about the transfer:
I enjoyed your current posts on Zecco and moving from ShareBuilder to Zecco. I currently have a portfolio with ShareBuilder but [...]

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Mid-Year Adjustment

Posted by Sun on June 27, 2007 (6) Comment

As we are approaching the half-year mark, do you plan to do any adjustment of your portfolio?
I usually don’t make any change on our investments in the middle of the year. Any rebalancing will happen when the full year ends as I always feel the stock markets will do better in the second half of [...]

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