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From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 14, 2008 at 6:00 am ET
Nobody questions Warren Buffett’s investment ability. He is a singularly talented investor, business man, and one of the most respected men in the world. When Buffett talks, people listen. There are plenty of Buffet-mimickers out there. ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 13, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Free Cash Flow is a firm’s net income plus depreciation/amortization and all other non-cash charges - minus changes in working capital and capital expenditures. It may sound complicated at first glance, but all that really means ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 11, 2008 at 3:11 pm ET
Often when speaking of relations with the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan would toss out the phrase “trust, but verify“. Reagan reportedly repeated this old Russian proverb (Russian: Доверяй, но проверяй) at the signing of the INF treaty to which ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 10, 2008 at 12:24 pm ET
Carnival of Personal Finance
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance #151 was hosted by Kimberly Palmer over at the Alpha Consumer, one of the bloggers at US News & World Report (classy!). My article on how the ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 9, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Welcome to part III of my series examining the attributes of good dividend stocks. When buying a stock for income, the safety of the dividend is of utmost importance. Dividend cuts are frowned upon because ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 8, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Welcome to part II of my series examining the attributes of good dividend stocks. The first thing to look for when analyzing a dividend stock is its dividend history. A long record of rising dividend ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 6, 2008 at 11:00 pm ET
Dividend paying stocks are the bread and butter of every income investor living off their portfolio income (or aspiring to, anyway). As far as passive income strategies go, dividend-paying stocks sit at the top of the heap. ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 6, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
My 8th grade sunday school teacher was a billionaire, the 380th richest man in America (and 799th richest man in the world), in fact, according to the Forbes 400 2007 list. With a net worth ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 5, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
You’ve no doubt heard about the proposed gas tax holiday supported by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain but opposed by Barack Obama. I’m going to have to side with Obama on this one. ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 3, 2008 at 5:17 pm ET
Carnival of Personal Finance
My post on Vanguard’s Global Stock Market Index Fund was included in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance #150 hosted by Lazy Man And Money. Here are some of my favorite posts from ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 2, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Back in february I wrote about certain situations where a variable annuity may make sense. My conclusion was that there are particular investments it makes sense to put in a variable annuity: high-yield junk bonds, ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 1, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
There are several blogs out there devoted to passive income: Living off dividends, the dividend guy, dividend growth investor, and dividends4life just to name a few, all dedicated to the idea of freeing oneself from ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 30, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
A few weeks ago, FMF at free money finance asked his readers who should pay for a date? I meant to write about this a few weeks ago but got side-tracked. In any event, I’d like ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 29, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
As Hannah at The Penny Mine noted recently, most people are pretty bad at planning for intermediate-term goals. Sure, these people will spend countless hours researching mutual funds for their IRA and call 15 banks in ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 28, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
I got quite a bit of negative feedback to my post Calculate Your Personal Inflation Rate because in it I stated that inflation numbers are not, in fact, manipulated by the government. Well, that statement really ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 26, 2008 at 2:07 pm ET
Carnival of Personal Finance
My post Invest In The Long Tail: An Amazon.com Case Study was featured in this weeks Carnival of Personal Finance #149 hosted by The Happy Rock. Here are a few of my favorite posts ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 25, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Earlier this month, Vanguard filed with the SEC to offer the Vanguard Global Stock Index Fund. It will track the FTSE All-World Index, a market-cap-weighted index of large and mid-cap stocks all over the world. ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 24, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Ever heard the phrase” if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is?” I hope so because I wrote about it a few weeks ago. But just in case you missed out on that, ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 23, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Investing can be hard when you’re young and don’t have much money to invest. Sure, companies like T Rowe Price will let you invest as little as $50 up front in an IRA if you promise ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 22, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
It’s just not fair. You studied hard in school, got a decent job, bought a used Honda when you really wanted that shiny new Panoz, paid off your credit card every month, and most importantly, ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 21, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Ok, so we all know variable annuities are usually better deals for the annuity salesman than the customer. But let’s ignore all that for a moment. Surely there must be certain circumstances when an annuity ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 19, 2008 at 1:22 pm ET
I participated in three count’em three carnivals this week: the venerable carnival of personal finance, carnival of money stories, and festival of frugality.
Carnival of Personal Finance
This weeks Carnival of Personal Finance #143 was hosted over ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 18, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
We’ve already seen how recessions can be good for consumers, but recessions actually serve a much larger purpose. Capitalism, at its root, is all about the efficient allocation of scarce resources. In a free-market capitalist ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 17, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
Recessions get a bum rap. People lose their jobs, their homes lose value, their savings account pays peanuts, and the media predicts the end of the world on the hour. But there are several reasons ... ( more)
From Amateur Asset Allocator - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 16, 2008 at 8:00 am ET
The science of asset allocation gets a lot of attention in the personal finance realm but it only tells part of the story. In an ideal world, there would be no taxes or transaction costs, so ... ( more)
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