Posts for "Investing"


We Prefer Being Forced To Save

From Weakonomi¢s
February 8, 2012 at 11:13 am
A new study says that a significant majority of people would be fine to have their employers temporarily increase the amount the employee contributes to retirement plans up to ... (more)

Your Automatic Investment Plan: How to Build a No-Hassle Money Management System, Part 4 of 4

From Money Under 30
February 7, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve laid out three steps to help you build a hassle-free money management system: How to manage your spending without a traditional budget. How ... (more)

Updating My Dividend Income Investment Portfolio

From My Journey to Millions
February 7, 2012 at 10:20 am
Every two to three months I like to update my Dividend Investment Portfolio (or known around these parts as the article formally known as the Perpetual Income Machine) and since ... (more)

Pay Me To Borrow Money, From You

From Weakonomics
February 6, 2012 at 11:43 am
That’s what the US Department of Treasury may be telling investors in the near future.  What that effectively means is that the rate the US pays to borrow money would be ... (more)

Risk Aversion Ad Absurdum

From The Sizemore Investment Letter
February 6, 2012 at 8:50 am
Barron’s ran a featured story by Kopin Tam in last weekend’s edition titled “Just Don’t Lose It” that was telling.  Tam pointed out that, even after the best January ... (more)

Conveniently Wasting Money out of Convenience to Save Time

From freemoneywisdom.com
February 6, 2012 at 6:00 am
Time is life.  How you manage your time is how you manage your life. Think of your time as $24 a day.  But you can’t put your money in a bank (or a credit union if you’ve ... (more)

When Does a Crisis Reach a Critical Phase or Become Multiple Crises?

From Weakonomics
February 3, 2012 at 11:45 am
The following is a guest post provided by Forex Traders. Views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of Weakonomics.com The year of 2011 may go down in history as the ... (more)

Like This: How to Buy Facebook IPO Shares

From Good Financial Cents -Jeff Rose Certified Financial Planner and Investment Advisor, Carbondale, Illinois
February 2, 2012 at 10:17 am
The million  $5 billion dollar question of the week,“How do I buy shares of Facebook’s IPO?”I’ve literally have had a dozen people ask me how they can ... (more)

Turkcell: Benefiting from an Emerging Markets Rally

From The Sizemore Investment Letter
February 2, 2012 at 8:15 am
You know that you’re up against some fierce competition when a stock you recommend is up by more than double the S&P 500’s return and yet you’re in 5th place.  Yet such ... (more)

Risk taker, rule breaker.

From Punch Debt In The Face
February 1, 2012 at 9:05 am
While I like to consider myself adventurous, I’m not really one to take huge risks. In fact, every time someone asks me if I have a desire to go bungee jumping or skydiving ... (more)

Real Estate as an Investment?

From My Journey to Millions
January 31, 2012 at 10:33 am
When you prepare to enter the real estate market for the first time, you may find that many well-meaning individuals will encourage you to buy as much house as you can with as ... (more)

Investing in German Bonds with ETFs

From The Sizemore Investment Letter
January 30, 2012 at 11:53 am
If there is one word that summarizes the choppy, volatile year that was 2011, it would be “Europe.”  Last year the market lived or died based on developments (or lack thereof) ... (more)

Think Before You Invest: What Are You Comfortable With?

From Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog
January 30, 2012 at 10:48 am
Think Before You Invest: What Are You Comfortable With? is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - Its all about ... (more)

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

From My Journey to Millions
January 26, 2012 at 10:50 am
I refuse to believe that there is a male out there who is in between the age of 22 and 48 who hasn’t seen the movie Rudy.  A feel good story about Daniel Ruettiger, a scrappy ... (more)

The Worst Way to Invest in Real Estate

From My Journey to Millions
January 25, 2012 at 10:03 am
Have you ever thought about investing in real estate? Would you try to flip your houses, or would you start creating a passive income by renting it out? Personally, I love the ... (more)

Is It Finally Time For Yahoo?

From Buy Like Buffett
January 25, 2012 at 4:43 am
This may sound like a broken record but Yahoo is undergoing a major overhaul once again. The company’s cofounder Jerry Yang resigned from the Board of Directors this week stepping ... (more)

What If We Only Invested in Companies We Loved?

From Budgets Are Sexy
January 24, 2012 at 7:17 am
I’ve been thinking long and hard about this idea lately, and I REALLY think there’s something to it.  And I’m pretty sure I’ve heard a famous investor, ... (more)

Why I Hate Target Date Mutual Funds and You Should, Too

From Good Financial Cents -Jeff Rose Certified Financial Planner and Investment Advisor, Carbondale, Illinois
January 23, 2012 at 8:22 am
You’ve been investing in your 401k for quite some time and are probably still clueless in where your money is going.  (Don’t worry…you’re not alone)But you’re ... (more)

Investment in gold and other precious metals is gaining popularity

From Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog
January 20, 2012 at 8:27 am
Investment in gold and other precious metals is gaining popularity is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - ... (more)

The Presidential Cycle is Rubbish

From The Sizemore Investment Letter
January 20, 2012 at 8:17 am
Discussing their 401k plans, no doubt. Mark Twain noted that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics, and nowhere is this truer than in the investment profession. Don’t worry, ... (more)

You Have Absolutely No Patriotic Duty To Pay High Taxes

From My Journey to Millions
January 19, 2012 at 10:40 am
I don’t want to pay higher taxes then what the law mandates.  In fact a large part of my day is spent helping people plan for the Federal and State Estate Tax and I love my ... (more)

Why Early Retirement Is So Important To Me

From freemoneywisdom.com
January 18, 2012 at 8:00 am
If you have ever thought about retirement, I am sure the question of whether you can retire early has accompanied it. With the financial difficulties that this economies brings, ... (more)

Europe Downgraded: What Investors Should Do

From The Sizemore Investment Letter
January 17, 2012 at 10:56 pm
Standard & Poor’s dropped a bomb on Europe on Monday, downgrading the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).   Also known as the “bailout fund,” the EFSF was ... (more)

The Future of Capitalism?

From All Things International
January 17, 2012 at 2:22 pm
brightcove.createExperiences(); This is exciting! I want to hear your thoughts before I say anything beyond what I already did in my November 7, 2011 post. -BE ... (more)

Kiplinger, Mutual Funds, and Monkeys

From Weakonomi¢s
January 17, 2012 at 10:30 am
I’d almost forgotten about how much I loathe the personal finance magazine and site Kiplingers (see here and here). Should you not be familiar with the publication, Kiplingers ... (more)