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Current Bank & Broker Promotion Bonuses
If you are looking for a little incentive to open a bank or brokerage account, there are a few promotions currently running which will give you as much as $50 bonus for a single new account. Check them out. Maybe there’s something you need
TradeKing $50 bonus for a new account: Open an account [...]
2006 4-Week T-Bill Rates
After peaking at 5.227% APY on August 8th, the yield of 4-week T-Bill has been on the decline. The auction of last Tuesday set the latest rate at 4.757%.
On My Way to the Post Office
there's a building with a giant "ANTIQUES" on the back and I always wanted to take a picture of it. I finally snatched one with my cell phone today.
And every time I passed by the building, I always asked myself "Antiques? What antiques? The house or the stuff inside the house?"
What made me [...]
Weekend Reading: Aspects of Investor Psychology (Part II)
This is the second part of my weekend reading: Aspects of Investor Psychology. In the first part, the focus was on overconfidence in investor’s decision making process. The topic of this part is optimism in investing of both financial advisors and investors like you and me. Take a look at the following question:
Question 2: [...]
Earned More and Kept More?
Obvious?
Maybe not, at least according to a Money article I read today. The article showed what a money manager at Vanguard has observed from people participating in Vanguard 401(k) plan:
People with median assets of $200,000 have median income of $69,000, and
People with median assets of $38,000 have median income of $83,000
And what made the difference [...]
Understanding M*’s Star Rating
If you are a mutual fund investor, chances are you have seen Morningstar’s star rating every where, on fund family’s website, on Yahoo! Finance (where you can find a comprehensive list of funds and fund families), even on funds’ ads. Common sense tells us a fund with five stars should outperform a two-star fund, the [...]
How Do You Fund Your Domain?
Do you have a budget for your own domain?
It really took me some time to make up my mind to switch from free blog at Blogger.com, which I started in June, to this domain. First of all, I am not sure if it’s worth it. Secondly, where does the money come from to pay for [...]
No Immediate Danger of Our Health Plan
During our last visit for a scheduled checkup, we were informed that our help plan, Aetna HMO (we didn’t choose PPO or POS plan mainly because we are still young, in good health, and only use our doctor for annual physical), will no longer be accepted by the hospital. The reason, as we heard from [...]
Don’t Eat Fresh Spinach
I heard on the radio this morning on my way to work that FDA has issued a nationwide warning about contaminated spinach. The news scared me because we bought a bag of fresh organic spinach from Costco last Sunday and ate last night (yes, including our one-year old daughter). Fortunately, we cooked it.
The bacteria found [...]
Blogger.com Users: Check Your Post’s Time Stamp
If you are using Blogger.com, you may want to check the time stamp of your post shown in your blog and the one appeared on Pfblog.org. As it happened to me before, I saw the difference between these two greater than any reasonable level. The direct result was that no matter when I posted the [...]
Pfblog.org Fixed Timing Problem of My Blog
Since I joined Pfblog.org late last month, I have been enjoying being a member of the PF community and have read lots of interesting posts from fellow bloggers, whom I had no way to meet before.
While happy to be part of the group, I had been bothered for a while since I noticed the difference [...]
