Month: January 2010

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

Retirement Withdrawal Management
in Personal Finance, Retirement Planning

Retirement finance has an accumulation stage and a decumulation stage. Accumulation gestates, hatches, and cooks your retirement nest egg; decumulation allows you to eat it. Accumulation commands the lion’s share of attention in popular finance, but decumulation, or distribution, is equally important. Understanding how to disburse wealth is just as important as understanding how to
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Interview with Mark from Options for Rookies
in Investments

I requested Mark from Options for Rookies for an interview while I am away, and he very gracefully accepted. In this interview Mark explains how options can be used as insurance for your portfolio. If you have any questions, please leave a comment here, or at Mark’s blog. As far as I can tell, Mark
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Reliance Liquid Exchange Traded Fund NFO
in ETF

The Reliance Liquid ETF will be the second liquid ETF to be launched on the NSE. The Liquid BeES being the first one. This is an ETF that will invest in a portfolio of short term government securities, money market instruments, and other debt securities of short and medium term maturities. The minimum application amount
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How to enable internet on iPhone in India with Airtel
in Personal Technology

One of the things I wanted to do during my vacation here was to enable internet on my iPhone. I got a lot of conflicting information about this, and that delayed the process, but otherwise, it was a pretty simple thing to get done. Before I describe how I did it, let me state that
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Why the banks are not lending
in Economy

The following is a guest post by The Weakonomist from Weakonomics.com Back in 2007, banks were starting to realize that the loans they were making and selling were possibly going to become a problem. As borrowers started to default into the beginning of 2008, banks began to evaluate their portfolios and project losses. Things didn’t look
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