Life is Short: Save & Spend Wisely for Those Left Behind
September 17, 2009
Do you ever ask yourself why you’re being such a stickler with your money? We save and invest money for “the future” but how do we know when that future we’ve been preparing for becomes the present?
My Grandmother’s Apartment
My kids and I paid an evening visit to my grandmother this week, just so they could spend a [...]
Roth IRA Conversion Tips
September 16, 2009
The Roth IRA conversion rules are changing in 2010, here are a few things to consider if you’ve been thinking about converting your traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.
Roth IRA Conversion Limits
The current IRS rules only allow you to convert your traditional IRA to a Roth IRA if your modified adjusted gross income is $100,000 [...]
Four New Retirement Saving & Planning Tools?
September 5, 2009
Retirement planning can be daunting. You make a lot of assumptions about where you’ll be financially decades down the road. You assume that the tax laws won’t do anything crazy and that the financial markets will continue to operate as they have for decades. You also debate whether Social Security funds are going to shrivel up [...]
Free Stock Trade Promotion from Zecco
September 1, 2009
Free Stock Trades Promotion
Zecco will give you 20 free stock trades if you signup for an online trading account as a new customer in the next week and a half.
You don’t have to use the trades right away, they are good for 90 days. I’m not eligible for the free trade bonus because I’m already [...]
Stock Analysis – Price to Book Ratio, Beta, & Price to Sales Ratio
August 17, 2009
Stock Analysis Series
We covered price to earnings growth, debt to asset ratio, and dividend yield in the last edition of the stock analysis series. In this installment we’ll look at the measurements of price to book ratio, beta, and price to sales ratio when evalutating a company’s stock.
Price to Book Ratio (P/B)
Also know as the [...]
Stock Analysis – Price to Earnings Growth, Debt to Asset Ratio, & Dividend Yield
August 14, 2009
Stock Analysis Series
In the first stock analysis article, I covered two of the most popular analytical measurements investors use to gauge the health of a particular stock, earnings per share and price to earnings ratio. These are certainly not the only measurements you should use to evaluate a company’s stock; today I’ll take a look at three [...]
Stock Analysis – Earnings Per Share & Price to Earnings Ratio
August 13, 2009
Stock Analysis Series
In the world of financial investing, there are many different types of analysis that people look at in judging the health and value of a company and its stock. Over the course of the stock analysis series we’ll explain what these methods are and how you can use them to evaluate your investments. [...]
Warren Buffett’s Calm & Measured Approach to Investing
August 8, 2009
Warren Buffett is most likely the best investor of modern times. He will certainly go down as one of the top two or three influences. Yet, he goes about investing in ways that are often contradictory to the market’s moods. Here are some of his quotes:
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
If [...]
Investing in Certificates of Deposit with CD Ladders
August 7, 2009
Certificates of deposit will never offer the same level of returns that you can earn in the stock market but CDs do provide a guaranteed return, unlike stocks. A certificate of deposit gives you a guaranteed interest rate in exchange for agreeing to lend the bank money for a certain period of time. If you [...]
Actively Managed Exchange Traded Funds
August 6, 2009
Exchange traded funds are baskets of securities that trade like stocks and, until recently, have almost always tracked market indexes like the Standard & Poor’s 500. ETFs have certain advantages over mutual funds – they generally have offered lower fees and tax advantages than mutual funds, and clearer tracking of their underlying investments because they [...]
