Weekend Linkage - April 20, 2008

By Sun on Apr 20, 2008 in PF blogoshpere
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Ten Ways You Can Teach Your Kids About Money Money Smart Life discussed how to prepare your kids the financial life they will live later on with some practical ways that you can use to teach them about money today.

Play the Annual Invest Lazy Man’s Money Game If you have $4,000 now, how would you like the money be invested? Lazy Man and Money is looking for suggestions on how to invest his 2007 IRA contributions.

Thank You, Yahoo!, for Perpetuating the Use of Home Equity as Cash Generation X Finance doesn’t like what he saw on Yahoo because falling home price has already made many home owners struggle to pay their bills after what they did exactly what Yahoo suggested.

Calculating Your Adjusted Cost Base (ACB) Million Dollar Journey showed how calculation should be done if you bought the same security more than once.

What I Learned About Taxes This Year… My Dollar Plan shared her lessons. I wish I had contributed to my 401(k) when I was eligible so we wouldn’t have had to recharacterize our Roth IRA contributions.

Eliminate Credit Card Debt! 4 Methods I’ve Used To Reduce My Debt Check out what The Digerati Life has done to get rid of “bad debt.”

Tracking Tool For Our Investment Performance 2 million’s Personal Finance Blog showed his Excel spreadsheet that he is using to track their investment performance. I should have used a spreadsheet from the beginning. Now I stuck with Quicken.

Investigating Mutual Fund Correlations Five Cent Nickel looked at correlations between different asset classes. A zero correlation, meaning two investment classes move completely randomly, would be ideal for investments. Unfortunately, that doesn’t exist.