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Lending Club’s Interesting Definition of Risk
I was using Lending Club to buy some notes the other day and noticed something very interesting. Take a look at the following images… A) B) C) D) Did you see what I saw? Look at images A and B. You see that I can choose between a 9.74% interest rate at a 0.47/1 risk [...]
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Does Diversification Still Matter?
Taking a casual look at my investment performance over the last few months isn’t pretty. What’s that you say? Yours isn’t either? It seems like no one’s is. I was thinking about this the other day. Did I do everything right? I diversified. I have money in US stocks both big and small. I have [...]
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I Share My Asset Allocation (as do 7 other Money Writers)
The Money Writers is having a group writing project. Each of us have decided to share our asset allocation and performance from the first of the year to last Friday. You might want to put the children to sleep, this could get ugly. Asset Allocation I would like to say that I put together a [...]
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4 Investing Ideas for Your Economic Stimulus Tax Rebate Check
Today’s post comes from Miranda Marquit. She writes about personal finances for YieldingWealth and edits debt consolidation information for Destroy Debt. The “economic stimulus” tax rebates have begun arriving, and now people are wondering how to spend them. Instead of blowing all that cash on something you don’t actually need, why not put part — [...]
