Investing
Target-Date Retirement Funds - Driving Into Retirement on Cruise Control
Target-Date Retirement Funds gradually change from a more aggressive, risky portfolio to a more conservative, safe portfolio as you get closer to retirement. They’re meant to take the worry out of retirement investing, but remember, you also give up a certain amount of control. These funds have become popular in the last […]
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29May2008 | Lisa | 3 comments | Continued
Socially Responsible Investing: Part 2- Mutual Funds: Know What You Own
Calvert Group is an investment company that has specialized in socially responsible investing (SRI) since its inception over 30 years ago. They also provide a free, on-line “Know What You Own” screening software for over 1000 mutual funds.
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5Mar2008 | Lisa | 1 comment | Continued
Stock Market Investing Tips 101: #8- A Legendary Stock Watch Worksheet
In the first 7 articles of this series, I covered basic definitions of investing, and free internet resources for stock analysis. If any of the information in this post feels unfamiliar to you, I encourage you to review these previous entries.
In this article I present a classic stock analysis technique. I outline Jason Kelly’s Stocks […]
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27Feb2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Socially Responsible Investing: Part I- Where Do I Begin?
I’ve been thinking about converting at least part of my 401k to socially responsible investments (SRI) for a while. But where do I begin? How do I go about finding the best investments for me? Can I also do it with my very small non-401k portfolio?
In this series, I hope to answer these […]
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22Feb2008 | Lisa | 2 comments | Continued
Stock Market Investing Tips 101- # 7: Free Research Tools for Analyzing Stocks
In previous 101 posts, we have begun to familiarize ourselves with some of the key terms of stock analysis.
Our next goal is to become acquainted with on-line research tools. Because this is a frugal blog, I’m listing only completely free web sites here. Chapter 5 of Jason Kelly’s Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market […]
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18Feb2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Stock Market Investing Tips 101: # 6- What Makes a Good Stock
As I continue my studies about stock market investing, I wanted to share with you some common indicators analysts use when evaluating stocks. These three terms were originally introduced in lessons #4 and #5.
A high EPS is good. As you recall, earnings per share is a company’s total actual earnings in the last year (profits […]
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12Feb2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
My 401k Has Fallen and It Can’t Get Up
I just calculated that my 401K has fallen 13% since it’s highest point in November of last year. Which has made my net worth drop 5.5%.
It’s melting….!!!
Is there anything I can do other than to wait it out? Do I cut my losses? Move what’s left into less risky funds? Ride it out, and keep […]
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9Feb2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Stock Market Investing Tips 101: The Series. # 5: "What’d They Say?" Continued
Have all you wanna be investors like me been hanging in there on this series? (If you’re reading this for the first time, you may want to go back and review Tips 1-4). But for now, more of our short version “must know” glossary of terms.
To summarize what we have covered so far, here […]
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5Feb2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Stock Market Investing Tips 101: The Series # 4: "What’d They Say?"
In Stock Market Investing Tips #2 and #3, we learned that value investing, more for the individual investor, mainly focuses on fundamental analysis, while growth investing focuses more on technical analysis. If you are not familiar with these terms, you may want to go back to these posts before proceeding.
In today’s blog, as well as […]
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1Feb2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Stock Market Investing Tips 101: The Series # 3: Fundamental Analysis vs Technical Analysis
In his latest book “The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing“, Jason Kelly writes:
There are two ways to evaluate stock. The first way is using fundamental analysis, which examines information about
the company’s health and potential to succeed. You use fundamental
information to learn about a company. The second way is
using technical analysis, which examines the […]
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30Jan2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Stock Market Investing Tips 101: The Series #2: Value vs Growth Investing
What I am doing right now is learning the stock market lingo. And it is another language, and there is a lot of it! I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. I am thinking that organizing it in writing should help, and also provide an indexed series of references to refer back to later on. I’ll […]
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28Jan2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Stock Market Investing Tips 101: The Series #1 Creating a POA
To all of you novice investors out there with little money but a brimming curiosity for the stock market: I am starting a new hobby: Stock Investing. To that end, I will be posting a series of blogs over the coming weeks describing my low risk steps as a small investor, what I have learned, […]
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23Jan2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
Want to try the Stock Market for Free? Sharebuilder
You Play, You Pay. That is how my life usually works.
But here are two ways you can play the stock market for free:
1) Sharebuilder (recently purchased by Ing) is offering a new $50 promotion to anyone opening an account and doing a trade. Trades are only $4 each (Don’t do a real time trade.). Use […]
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15Jan2008 | Lisa | 2 comments | Continued
Green Stocks for 2008: Link to Article from CNN Money
I found this link interesting:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/08/news/companies/where_renewable_moneyis/index.htm?section=money_topstories
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12Jan2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued


