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 [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Filed under Growing Your Wealth,Guest Posts,Investing,Market Analysis
Retirement Portfolios for Those Drawing an Income
17 Comments Guest on Mar 31st 2011
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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 [...]
93 Comments Kevin on Mar 29th 2011
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 [...]
19 Comments Kevin on Mar 28th 2011
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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 [...]
17 Comments Guest on Mar 23rd 2011
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 [...]
23 Comments Kevin on Mar 21st 2011
Negative posterity I recently heard about Alexandra Wallace, the girl who made a video about different ways that Asian people annoy her, and who is now leaving the university supposedly due to death threats but also probably due to the stigma of being seen in a bad way. Now, I watched the video for myself [...]
28 Comments Kevin on Mar 19th 2011
Filed under Guest Posts,Healthy Living,Miscellaneous,Opinion,Philosophy,Saving Your Money
3 Tips for Investing Your Time, Money, and Energy Wisely
The following is a guest post by Charles from CreditDonkey. If you are interested in becoming financially secure and living a life free from excessive debt and financial stress, then you will be interested in learning 3 ways that you can invest your time, money, and energy wisely to attain such a lifestyle. Let’s talk about [...]
14 Comments Guest on Mar 17th 2011
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Helping Japan: What Canadians Can Do
What originally was a bad situation in Japan early Friday morning became a lot worse when a wall of seawater spread inland, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Japan is located on the ring of fire so while they are somewhat prepared for earthquakes and tsunamis, they are not immune and the damages are probably [...]
17 Comments Kevin on Mar 15th 2011
The picture above pretty much reflects what happened in the markets recently. A hard landing, but no blood in the streets (atm). BREAKING NEWS: Just read about this: At least 50 killed; tsunamis feared as massive quake hits Japan. I don’t know too much about the situation since I just read about it, but it’s [...]
11 Comments Kevin on Mar 11th 2011
