Personal finance

2007 Safest Cars: No American Made

Posted by Sun on November 21, 2006 (2) Comment

Early this month, Consumer Reports released its ratings on vehicle reliabilities and Japanese cars got 39 nods on the list. Today, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced its ratings on car safety and foreign cars again take the spotlight aways from American cars as no car from US automakers made the cut. This [...]

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Financial Planning: A Free Magazine That You Might Like

Posted by Sun on November 21, 2006 (2) Comment

Back in July, I subscripted to a free magazine, Financial Planning, from TradePub. This magazine’s target readers are professionals such as financial advisers, financial planers, or accountants. And I am just an amateur with interests in finance. Therefore, I made up some stories when I signed up for the magazine :D.
The first issue of Financial [...]

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Called Ameriprise, Got Auto & Home Insurance Quotes Plus a Hard Credit Pull

Posted by Sun on November 21, 2006 (4) Comment

Last Tuesday, I got an estimate of auto insurance premium from Ameriprise after receiving an email from them. Since I didn't give them my social, the quote was only an rough number, plus it was for auto only, not auto and home. Even so, the price was still lover then what I am paying Liberty [...]

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Is It Just Me? Or Vanguard? Or Scottrade? Or All?

Posted by Sun on November 20, 2006 (6) Comment

I really don't know if it's only me or somebody else who ever transfered their IRA assets from Scottrade to Vanguard had the same terrible experience.
After my last conversation with Vanguard more than two weeks ago, I thought all the troubles I had with Vanguard were behind me and the last chapter of the nearly [...]

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Local Gas Price Watch: First Increase in Months

Posted by Sun on November 19, 2006 (2) Comment

After staying at $.199/gallon for nearly 3 weeks, the gas prices at my local station saw first increase in months, back to above $2 again.
Last Friday, when I passed by the station that I always use to fill up my car, I noticed the price for one gallon regular gas was at $2.03, up [...]

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