Archive for May, 2007
Mutual Fund Review: Fidelity International Real Estate (FIREX)
Everyone seems to be striving for some level of diversification within their portfolio but that typically means adding some bonds with your stock or introducing some specific equity category to go along with the significant percentage of large-cap holdings. One area that is often overlooked is real estate. Most people think of real estate as [...]
Friday Finance Findings for May 18th
A great place for finding some weekend reading would be over at the 100th Carnival of Personal Finance. There is enough information there to keep you busy for hours. But, there were plenty of good posts that did not make it into the carnival: Simple Saving Trick: Pay Yourself First and Then Keep Stealing – [...]
This Week’s Money Question: A Peek Inside My Portfolio
This week’s question is being showcased over at the Silicon Valley Blog About Money and it takes a look at what some fellow personal finance bloggers hold in their portfolios. Today’s installment highlights my very own allocation. Here is a snapshot of my holdings. Most people are probably thinking I’m an idiot for having so [...]
The Gen X Guide to Stretching Your Dollar
While I don’t like to regurgitate articles found on other sites very often I did stumble across one this morning that couldn’t be more appropriate for this site. Yahoo! Finance has a piece titled The Gen X Guide to Stretching Your Dollar which was actually a piece picked up from Reuters. Either way, the article [...]
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