The Sun's Financial Diary

When it comes to money matters, it’s never too early to start. An article in today’s Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Six Money Skills for Kids to Master, offers some excellent tips on how to teach your kids to handle their money that could benefit them for the years ahead. Here’s a summary of the “How to’s” [...]

Confused about what to invest in your 401(k) plan? Maybe a financial advisor can help. I always thought that how to invest in my 401(k) is my sole responsibility. Even when sometimes it seems confusing in making the right combination (not to mention maximizing returns), I never thought about seeking professional assistance. First of all, [...]

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 [...]

This probably will be my last post on this blog. Now my own site, The Sun’s Financial Dairy, is up and running, I will post on the new site from now. Though I haven’t ported all the posts on Blogger.com to the new site yet (there is a little problem), everything else was transferred. So, [...]

my blog to its own domain, The Sun’s Financial Diary, hosted by BlueHost.com. I just set up the website yesterday and there are a lot of stuff to do and learn before it has the functions and features I want. I am relative new to web development, though I know HTML. So, I guess it [...]

Bought another wireless rounter today for $9.98 after $30 MIR. I intended to list it on Amazon (the lowest price on Amazon is $29.95), but could use it as a backup if it stucks in my hands. $9.98 is a good price for a 802.11g router. I have added any new stuff to my inventory [...]

Priced at $15, EDU opened at $22 in its first day of trading on Thursday with more 6 million shares traded. The $15 price is above the initial range of $11 – $13. Recent Chinese IPO stocks, such as BIDU and GRRF, traded very well in the first several days after listing. However, the frenzy [...]

My Yahoo email account indicated that I had a new email, but I just couldn’t find anything new after going through the first 50 emails. Where’s it? Well, I eventually found it, but not until I almost reached the end of my Inbox folder. It was an email dated June 3, 2002. What are they [...]