Month: June 2007
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Risk Tolerance
Risk Tolerance is what allows you to sleep at night. Imagine how you would feel if your Roth IRA had $500,000.00 and you lost 10% in one day. So let’s say on Monday you check your Roth IRA value and you see a big fat $500,000.00 in your account, then on Tuesday you see $450,000.00.…
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Bad Timing
When I started contributing to my employer’s retirement plan there were a few fund companies with quite a few funds to pick from. At the time there was an excellent book out by Peter Lynch called “Beating The Street”. Peter Lynch managed the Fidelity Magellan mutual fund until 1990 and returned huge gains. His successors…
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[Smart Saving and Investing] Comment: “FeedBurner”
New comment on your post #65 “FeedBurner” Author : Bill (IP: 24.252.61.238 , ip24-252-61-238.om.om.cox.net) E-mail : billstevens2000@gmail.com URL : http://www.smartsavinginvesting.com Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=24.252.61.238 Comment: Well, looks like maybe FeedBurner was changing things up on me yesterday. Today, the bloggers I compare my FeedBurner to are acting the same way. Well, there ya’ go. You can…
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You Don’t Have to Wait
Recently I was listening to someone talk about, “I have to wait until I save up tens of thousands of dollars so I can get help from a money manager to invest in the right mutual funds.” No you don’t. There was a time when you’d take very little money into a money manager and…
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A Roth IRA Overview
After searching the web for a brief description of the advantages, disadvantages and rules of a Roth IRA, I thought I’d add mine to the mix: Advantages You can contribute to your Roth IRA after age 70 1/2, unlike the age limitation of a traditional IRA. You can contribute up to $4,000.00 for 2007 if…