January 2008

How to buy partial shares of Berkshire Hathaway with ShareBuilder

January 30, 2008

As you may know, I’ve decided to invest roughly 50% of the earnings from The Dough Roller in B shares of Berkshire Hathaway. (The other half goes to charity.) I say roughly half goes to the B share because a small portion of the 50% I keep goes to loans on Prosper and Lending Club. [...]

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Checklist for Life – An Inventory of All Your Financial Information

January 29, 2008

Huntington Bank just released what it calls a Checklist for Life. Checklist for Life is a seven page PDF document that allows you to keep an inventory of all your financial information. The idea behind the checklist is to encourage people to begin thinking about estate planning. Here’s how Huntington describes the Checklist: Many people [...]

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Get Paid to Interview for Jobs!??

January 29, 2008

  No, I’m not making this up. A new online service claims it will pay you to interview for jobs, on average $300 – $600 per interview. NotchUp is an online company that aims to take the hassle and cost out of placing “top-tier candidates” with employers. And it boasts that it has signed up [...]

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Voyant Introduces Free DIY Financial Planning Tool at Demo 08

January 28, 2008

“Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. If Voyant’s newly released online financial planning tool has anything to say about it, failing to plan will be a thing of the past. Voyant showcased its free financial planning tool at DEMO 08 being held this week in Palm Desert, CA. I’ve spent some time using [...]

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Idea Shower Firefox Extension: A Great Way to Store Online Information

January 28, 2008

The Internet offers a wealth of information about personal finance and investing. Whether its a news item, a new online tool you want to try out, or information to help make you a better investor, all this information can be overwhelming. I’ve tried everything from e-mailing a link to myself to using bookmarks, but somehow [...]

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Richard Ferri on whether an investor should buy ETFs or mutual funds

January 28, 2008

Should investors buy ETFs or mutual funds? The answer is, it depends. It depends on the priorities an investor has. There are three factors driving the decision: costs, custody, and convenience. The weight that each person places on each of these three factors will determine whether they will be happier with ETFs or mutual funds. [...]

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Congress to Pass Stimulus Package While the Band Plays On

January 25, 2008

Fears of recession combined with an election year equal a chicken in every pot. The chicken that congressional leaders and the White House cooked up yesterday will cost our grandchildren about $150 billion plus interest. That’s right, the government is passing out money to the tune of $600 to $1,200 for most taxpayers in the [...]

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World Markets Plunge: What should investors do (a multiple choice question)?

January 22, 2008

World markets plunged yesterday. Just to recap: Britain’s benchmark FTSE-100: -5.5% France’s CAC-40 Index: -6.8% Germany’s blue-chip DAX 30: -7.2% India’s benchmark stock index: -7.4% Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index: -5.5% Canada’s S&P/TSX composite index: -4.8% Brazilian stocks: -6.6% Argentina’s Merval index: -6.3% About the only market not to decline was the U.S. markets, because [...]

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A Visual Guide to Lending Money with Prosper’s New Portfolio Plans

January 19, 2008

Recently I described how I overcame my fear of P2P lending. One factor that encouraged me to dive into peer to peer lending was Prosper’s new Portfolio Plans. With these plans, you can quickly and easily select the types of loans you want to make, and then leave all of the hard work up to [...]

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