Month: September 2009
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Retirement Planning Calculator: Some more thoughts
in Opinion
Last week I wrote about the things to keep in mind while using a retirement planning calculator, and since then I have a few more thoughts on some of the variables that go in there. A retirement planning calculator will normally give you two rate of returns to input. One is the rate of return
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Follow the money: Washington to Wall Street
in Opinion
The following is a guest post by Taipan Publishing. It is written by Adam Lass, who is the Senior Editor of Wave Strengths Options Weekly. All views expressed are his own, and this is not a buy recommendation from One Mint. This American company has gained 777% the old-fashioned way: selling junk in backroom deals.
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Warren Buffet’s Op Ed in NYT
in Investments, Opinion
About a year ago, Warren Buffet wrote an Op-Ed in the NYT: Buy American. I am. I was reminded of this today when a friend mentioned that in that article Mr. Buffet had said that the market will move up, perhaps significantly, long before sentiment or the economy turns up. And that’s happened now. When
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Oil India IPO Allotment and Thinksoft IPO Subscription
in IPO/NFO
A quick post on one useful fact and one interesting one related to the Indian IPO market. The useful fact is that Oil India IPO allotment has already been done, and you can find the allotment details here. The shares will list on 30th September. The thing that I found interesting was that looking through
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Economy and Your Finances Carnival 27th September
in Articles
Image by KP Tyson Welcome to the September 27, 2009 edition of this carnival. I hope you are having a good Sunday, and here are some great posts to make it better. Debt SpendOnLife.com presents Credit Recipes: Cooking up Credit Score Greatness posted at SpendOnLife. Tom Tessin presents How to Get Out of Debt Fast
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Interesting Reads 26 Sep 2009
in Links
Here is a video of Buffet praising a Chinese suit company I found this week. I thought this was pretty interesting because it looks like Buffet doesn’t wear any other suits these days, so their suits must be really good or at least really good value for money.
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Rediff Money Portfolio
in Investments
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Moneycontrol portfolio tool. Abhishek, who is a regular reader, and has interacted with me in the past, left a comment recommending the Rediff portfolio tool. So, I checked it out, and was not disappointed with what I saw. It is easy to use and you can
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Retirement planning calculator facts
in Articles
After my post on retirement yesterday, I got a little more interested in the subject, and did a bit of research on how you could plan your retirement. This is the first time I have thought about the subject, and I think age is a large part of that. To me, the first thing to
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Traits of early retirees
in Opinion, Thrift
Image by Glenneroo My Wealth Builder had a very interesting post about his observations on people in the Early Retirement Forum. It is a forum for people who have either retired early or plan to do so. He picked up the following things while going through some threads there: Members show above average understanding of
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Crazy oversubscription numbers
in IPO/NFO, World
At first I thought it was not reading it right, but I was: Sinopharm Group Company, which is China’s largest drug distributor company, recently came out with an IPO, and the issue got oversubscribed 570 times its Hong Kong part! It attracted about 884 billion dollars (Hong Kong not Zimbabwe), and raised its maximum of
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