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Online retirement calculators come in all shapes and sizes. Some retirement calculators are extremely simple and provide little in the way of helpful information you can use to plan for retirement. Others are complex affairs that require an advanced degree from MIT to use. What follows are 11 online calculators for retirement [...]

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Photo Credit: Wolfgang StaudtWelcome to the Best of January and February 2008. Here you’ll find the best articles, posts, tools, resources and news about money, finance and investing from the past two months.
News and Analysis

Are payday loans actually good for us? An Experimental Analysis of the Demand for [...]

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Dodge & Cox announced last week that it will open its Dodge & Cox Stock Fund (DODGX) and Dodge & Cox Balanced Fund (DODBX) to new investors beginning today, Monday, February 4, 2008. Both funds were closed in 2004 to new investors, although existing investors were permitted to continue investing in the funds. [...]

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. . .but it sure is fun. Congratulations go out to Mike, Cynthia and Jack (check your email), who won the 3 book giveaway. Using a random number generator, I used three random numbers to select the winners from the email entries. Each winner will be receiving copies of the following three [...]

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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 [...]

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This is a guest post from author Richard A. Ferri, CFA. If you’d like to write for TDR, please drop me a line. Also remember to enter our contest to win three of Rick’s books, including a hardcover copy of The ETF Book. Get the details here.

Should investors buy ETFs or mutual [...]

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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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It’s been some time since I shared with you some of the articles and websites that I’ve found interesting or helpful. The holidays were an extremely busy time for us, due in part to a family emergency (everything is fine now). So since Mrs. Dough is away for the weekend and the kids [...]

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I’m excited to announce the first book giveaway here at The Dough Roller. Three lucky winners will each win copies of three books written by Richard A. Ferri, CFA. Two of the books I’ve written about and are both recommendations in my Amazon aStore–All About Asset Allocation and All About Index Funds. [...]

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