Carnival of Long Term Investing #9
Greetings! Welcome to the 9th edition of the Carnival of Long Term Investing. We have received 18 posts for this edition. Here are the posts in the order they were received.
Babak presents Guide to Social Investing Websites posted at Trader’s Narrative. A complete guide to the social networking sites dedicated to the stock market and investing. Find out which one is the best for you and join to learn more and make money!
Warren Wong presents Do You Get Money? posted at Personal Development for INTJs. Do you “get” money? Did you know that if you leave your money in the bank gathering interest, you actually lose a little bit of it every year? Read this article to find out more!
Adventures in Money Making presents Is It A Good Time To Invest In Real Estate? posted at Adventures in Money Making. Is It A Good Time To Invest In Real Estate?
The Dividend Guy presents BCE - A Sell Gone Way Bad posted at The Dividend Guy Blog. As part of learning, it is important to look back at prior decisions to see what has worked and was has not worked.
J at IHB and HFF presents How To Measure Prosper Profits Accurately posted at Home Finance Freedom. Perhaps Prosper profits should be tracked by making the loan, recording a -100% return (100% loss), updating to a -97% return after the first payment, and so forth. Thank you.
Jason Elder presents Bankruptcy - The Best Ways to Deal With It posted at A Bankruptcy Lawyer’s Blog. If you are thinking about filing for bankruptcy, you have come to the right place.
Eric Hudin presents Estate Planning Made Easy?.Easier posted at My Estate Planning Career Blog. Special Report for Capital Financial Advisory Clients.
Allen Taylor presents Enhance Gains With Timing Diversification posted at Investing World Today. Many investors, who understand the potential of market timing, pay little attention to the potential of diversification. Many novice market timers jump right into an aggressive timing strategy with little thought about how they will handle a period of losing buy and sell signals.
David presents Stocks versus Real Estate Investments posted at Worldwide Success. When the stock market crashed in 2002 many people gave up on stocks and started putting their money in real estate. At that time home prices were increasing at a fast rate and stocks seemed to have nowhere to go. Five years later things look a lot different. Stocks have been growing at a fast clip, with many market indexes hitting new highs.
Super Saver presents Innovative Companies - Spectacular or Duds posted at My Wealth Builder. Most Innovative Companies for 2007 by Business Week highlights their 50 top choices for innovative companies. What is interesting to me is that the list contains companies that I consider “spectacular” for innovation and companies I believe are becoming “duds” for innovation. Here’s my assessment of a few of these companies and how I am using the information for my stock investments.
ChristianPF presents 9 Tips from Warren Buffett posted at ChristianPF.com. Nine tips about investing, business, and life from the world’s greatest investor.
Adventures in Money Making presents How Capitalism Really Works posted at Adventures in Money Making. Here’s an amusing anecdote on how capitalism really works.
Dough Roller presents Beginner’s Guide to Asset Allocation: Value vs. Growth Funds posted at The Dough Roller. This article looks at the differences between value and growth mutual funds.
Shadox presents ROTH 401K - What is it Good For? posted at Money and Such. This post looks at the ROTH 401K and suggests who it might be appropriate for.
Mr Credit Card presents Target Date Retirement Funds versus Target Asset Allocation Funds posted at Ask Mr Credit Card’s Blog. One of the more recent “innovations” in the mutual fund industry is the “target date retirement funds”. How this works is as follows : You pick the year which you want to retire and then select the funds simply based on that. How simple. There are some pros and good points about these type of funds.
The Skilled Investor presents Lifetime investment assets of renters — with investment cost improvements posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR’s FINANCIAL PLANNING Blog. This graphic is one of the reasons why The Skilled Investor keeps harping about reducing investment expenses. Even average investment costs are simply outrageous, and they can be the difference between success and failure of a family’s lifetime financial plan.
Tyler presents Home Sweet Home Depot posted at Dividend Money. Looking at Home Depot as a long term dividend investment.
KCLau presents Why Invest in Land? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips. Most people think that land investment is only for real estate developers, who buy big parcels of land for commercial, or residential development. But actually, investing in land is one of the sound investment strategies available for common investor, both large and small.
That concludes the 9th edition of the Carnival of Long Term Investing. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on 17 July, 2007. You can submit your posts here.