Archive for 'Investing' Category
Is Your 401(k) Insured Against Electronic Theft?
5 January 2007There’s a pretty frightening article over at MSNBC on people who have had their retirement accounts hacked into and their savings stolen. While bank accounts used to be the main targets, criminals have figured out that the automated fraud detection bar is a lot more lenient for brokerage accounts, which will allow them to transfer […]
Investing While Incompetent - And Blissfully Unaware
1 January 2007From Professor Richard Bales of the Workplace Prof Blog comes an interesting study on what kind of 401(k) strategy provides the best returns. The study was performed by Wharton Business School in collaberation with Vanguard, and used data from over a million 401(k) accounts. The results? The highest average returns were achieved by people who […]
Think We’re Heading For 1970’s Style Economic Collapse? What Should You Do?
21 September 2006Yesterday I posted about why I don’t think the economy is facing economic implosion anytime soon. Well, apparently there are quite a few people who are worried about the same thing, or following this advice, because CNN has an “ask the expert” column answering the question of how you should invest to benefit from the […]
Wall Street Journal Profile of Jack Bogle, Founder of Vanguard
3 September 2006For those of you interested in the ongoing debate in the investment world over whether index funds are a good idea (and whether there are improvements that can be made to the strategy), the Wall Street Journal has an article profiling Jack Bogle, the guy who founded Vanguard. Vanguard is the company that was at […]
Spam E-mails Promoting Stocks Work
3 September 2006I frequently get spam e-mails advertising various stocks as being the next big thing. They’re usually tiny penny stocks no one has ever heard of, and usually the spam is pretty obvious - a few weird poetry quotes in the title of the e-mail to get past the filters, and then some random information on […]
HYIP and Autosurfing - Modern Ponzi Investment Schemes
2 September 2006Many people who are just getting into investing for retirement will do generic searches on the Internet trying to find information on investing, educational sites, or different business opportunities. While there’s a lot of good stuff out there, there’s also a lot of people interested only in taking money from you. And they aren’t just […]
Economic Literacy Problems With Journalists
28 August 2006I occasionally harp on how various people need to educate themselves about personal finance. One of the things many people don’t know, however, is that the people you’re reading advice from often have no clue themselves. It’s very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff - and that can have big impacts on people making […]
Investing Strategy: Focus on Rate of Dividend Growth
24 August 2006For those of you who like to have some of your retirement money invested in individual stocks, Kiplinger’s has an article focusing on what is a somewhat more conservative variant of the “growth stock” category - stocks that are annually increasing their dividends at high rates. The strategy is advocated by Rick Helm, who runs […]
A Simple Guide to Getting Rich
18 August 2006Harry Domash has posted one over on MSN Money. It’s nothing new if you’re a veteran of personal finance blogs, but for anyone who’s a beginner, it’s a good read. It explains, in simple terms, the basics of personal finance - namely that:
Only three ingredients are needed: income, discipline and time. Chances are, you already […]
Using the Diigo Social Networking Tool to Research and Track Stocks
15 August 2006From The Daily Bacon comes some good advice about how to take advantage of the “Web 2.0″ trend if you regularly do stock market research. Diigo.com is a site that lets you set up your own personalized search page where you can annotate web pages you’ve looked at, bookmark sites along with your own comments […]