Moolanomy weekly roundup #11: “Investing” edition
By
Pinyo, on October 7, 2007
This week money lesson was about investment vehicles, so I think it’s appropriate to have an investing themed weekly roundup. Also, I wrote “The Weak Dollar is Killing Americans’ Wealth” for Consumerism Commentary last Thursday, please give it a read if you missed it.
Here are some excellent posts about investing this week:
- Brip Blap presents staying put in a rocky market. This is a great commentary on buy and hold, selling on panic, the recent Fed Rate Cut (as being a bad long-term move), the sub-prime meltdown, and the weakening dollar. Should I tell him that despite the gain, he actually has less money due to devaluation of the U.S. dollar?
- All Financial Matters presents Equity Harvesting: A Good Idea? Your primary residence is your home, don’t mess with it.
- Money and Such presents Advanced Portfolio Building. This article is an excellent write up on asset allocation and diversification. I am thinking about adding bonds to my portfolio and this article really helped.
- Quest For Four Pillars presents Recession Investing. Another excellent article that specifically discuss recession and investing. Although it’s impossible for a lay investor like me to predict a recession, one thing I am certain about is that my portfolio has been geared toward high performing stock market for the past few years. It is good to read a post like this, so that I am forced to think about making my portfolio more balanced.
- Get Rich Slowly presents One Man Who Beats the Market (and His Suggestions for Individual Investors). Perhaps this is a good example of what my portfolio ought to look like. Although I doubt I will increase Treasury securities to 30% as depicted in the post.
Now my favorite posts from the M-Network this week:
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday (and for some of you Monday also).
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Thanks for the link – I think I’ll just try to think of it as “less of a loss than it was” instead of a gain. Thanks for raining on my parade!
Thanks for the mention!
@Brip Blap – you’re welcome. Sorry about the rain.
@Lynnae – no problem.
Thanks so much for the mention and the link!