The following is a guest post by Mathieu Bouville. Drawing an income changes everything The usual viewpoint of investment advice is that of someone twenty or thirty years away from retirement who wants to accumulate a capital for retirement. Here I instead focus on somebody who is retired and wants an income. This case is… [Read More]
Archives for March 2011
Invest It Wisely: One Year of Blogging Giveaway & Over $485 in Prizes to Be Won!
Nearly one whole year has passed since I began this blogging adventure back in 2010 around the same time as my good friend Mich from Beating The Index, who started at around the same time as me and is also celebrating one year of blogging. I’ve come a long way since then and learned a… [Read More]
Weekend Reading: Global State Edition
I recently read “Globa: Accelerating technologies will create a global state by 2050” on Kurzweil AI. The ongoing expansion and progression of technology will ultimately lead to, as the author contents, a world where one language becomes the global language (and in the author’s view it won’t be Chinese, which he views as an ” incredibly… [Read More]
The Credit Card Misinformation Sampler: 2 Busted Myths and 3 Mistakes You Should Never Make
This guest post was provided by Odysseas Papadimitriou of Card Hub, a website that makes it easy to compare credit cards. There’s a lot of good information out there about credit cards. Unfortunately, there’s also a lot of misinformation circulating as well. Personal finance, and especially credit card use, can be tricky. There are a… [Read More]
What Investors Really Want
I recently had the opportunity to read “What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions“, by Meir Statman. While many books on investing focus on the mechanics of investing in stocks, bonds, etc… this book instead looks at the investors themselves; it focuses on the emotional and intrinsic benefits… [Read More]




