Archive for the ‘Investing’ Category
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Hedge Rising Food and Gas Prices with ETFs
I’ve been following the financial news a little more lately than I have in past. I don’t like what I hear. An interview with a Shell Oil representative is claiming we might be paying $5 a gallon in two years. I shudder to think about what that means for me for California because we are [...]
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Should You Invest in the Top Fund of the Decade?
I’m a member of bank that you may or may not know. It is an exclusive bank typically only available to the military… USAA. I am eligible for member because my wife is in the military. (If you are not in the military, please don’t give up on this article.) USAA is one of my [...]
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Invest in What You Know? (Part 2)
[If you missed part one a couple of days ago, I encourage you to read Invest in What You Know?. As a bonus, I was happy the history of Palm smartphones sparked some conversation. Today I'd like to address the company that surfaced the topic in my mind.] I get lots of people sending me [...]
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Invest in What You Know? (Part 1)
Recently a company emailed me to tell me about their product. The product re-introduced me to the idea of investing in what you know. Peter Lynch, of Fidelity fame, may be the biggest proponent, and Warren Buffett, may be the best known. When those two minds agree on any piece of investing advice, it is [...]
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Market Conversations with a Co-Worker
“Have you Seen the Market Today?” … That’s how my co-worker started a pretty simple conversion about a week ago. She knew I was a personal finance blogger (I didn’t tell her which one), so it was a completely reasonable question. Yet, I froze like a deer in headlights. I remember thinking, “I should have [...]
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Solo 401ks and SEP-IRAs: Which Wins for Me?
Last year, I decided that it was time to get involved in a SEP-IRA. It only took about two years since my friend at RateLadder suggested the advantages of SEP-IRAs. It’s not so much that I was procrastinating, but that I needed my self-employment income to, well, buy stuff I needed. While I knew about [...]
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I Bought a Mutual Fund…
… for the first time in maybe a decade. You may find it amazing that I’ve been blogging about money for nearly four years now and having not bought a mutual fund in many, many years. Once Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) started getting commonplace, I switched to those vehicles instead. Typically the expenses were just [...]
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No More Alternative Income Reports
Today, I’ve decided to formally end my Alternative Income reports. I don’t think too many people will miss them since I haven’t done the reports in around months. Some might wonder why I stopped doing them. Well, a wise friend of mine once said that if he ever hit the lottery, he wouldn’t tell a [...]
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Ask The Readers: Favorite “Speculative” Investment Now?
With tax season around the corner, I finally got around to opening up a SEP-IRA at Fidelity. (I don’t know what took me so long, the process was very, very quick.) For those unfamiliar with SEP-IRA’s, they are a retirement vehicle for self-employed individuals (Read more about SEP-IRAs here). As income from this site counts [...]
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Is Investing Without Goals Like Golfing without a Putter?
I caught an article on the Simple Dollar yesterday: Investing without Goals Is Like Golfing without a Putter…. It’s a great article (Lifehacker even picked it up) if you want to know the basics of having goals and investing. At first, I thought that analogy of golfing without a putter was brilliant. Note the words [...]
