Archive for the ‘Investing’ Category
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Are Target Date Mutual Funds Right for You?
An article from my friend, Jeff Rose caught my attention recently: Why I Hate Target Date Mutual Funds and You Should, Too. The title caught my attention – hate is a strong word that I haven’t seen Rose use too often. For those who aren’t aware, target date mutual funds are typically designed to start [...]
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Lending Club Update: It’s Getting Better All the Time
I signed into my Lending Club account today and I had this thought: “I’ve got to admit it’s getting better, better… A little better all the time…” – Paul McCartney in the song Getting Better I’m purposely leaving out Lennon’s response of “It can’t get no worse!” That was appropriate when I started doing my [...]
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Are You Still Bullish on Investing in the Long Term?
Today I ask you to go on a quick journey with me, my friend Sherman, and his dog Mr. Peabody. Mr. Peabody is no ordinary dog. He’s built a little device that he calls the WABAC machine. It allows us to go back in time. Today, he’s set the date for January 8, 1999. Usually [...]
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LinkedIn Goes Public: Reviewing the Valuation
Today, I was getting set to post the links I liked over the past week when I got into an email conversation with The Money Writers, the blogging network that I am proud to be associated with. The conversation went in several directions. One of those directions was the view of Brip Blap on the [...]
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Announcing the Winner of the $25 “Invest Lazy Man’s Money” Game
Last week, I decided to try something a little new and offer $25 for people to give me ideas on investing my money. I purposely left the guidelines a little loose. Investing is extremely broad to start with. It’s also extremely personal. A successful recommendation would have to know my risk tolerance as well as [...]
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Play the Invest Lazy Man’s Money Game (and Win $25)
It’s that time of year again. I have made a sizable deposit into my SEP-IRA and Roth IRA and I’m asking you to help me invest it. I have a bit of a twist this year though. Due to my private stock investment paying off, I might have a little more cash that usual this [...]
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Patriots Draft 2011
This isn’t the typical personal finance article… but there are parallels between Personal Finance and The NFL Draft as I wrote earlier today. So while this will mostly be about football and about my favorite team, I ask that you give me a little slack on the personal finance for a bit. If you aren’t [...]
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Personal Finance and The NFL Draft
There are a few big events coming up soon. We’ve all been waiting for them for months, right? As Charles Dickens once wrote, “there’s so much to write about and so little to write about.” Wait, he didn’t write that? One of the top news stories is a wedding. I’m only going to be writing [...]
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My Risky Private Stock Investment Pays Off… Sort of
Before I started this blog, I was a software engineer. Seven years ago, almost to the day, I signed on to become employee #7 at a new start-up and, like many start-ups, I put in long hours designing much of the database and business logic. I was a team player. I was a walking billboard [...]
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Revisiting Lending Club
It’s been a long time since I’ve written about Lending Club. Truth is that I’ve been a little disappointed by the peer-to-peer lending space. I was an early adopter and I got burned. I put some significant money in Prosper and bid on a bunch of sub-prime loans. I might as well been in the [...]
