Carnival of Personal Finance #111 is up at Plonkee Money. My entry in the carnival is Personal Rate of Return: Dollar Weighted Or Time Weighted. After a quick glance, the following articles in this carnival are my favorites:
* Choosing a 529 Plan at Lazy Man and Money. The 529 plan field is insane. Every state has its own [...]
Two readers commented about avoiding the worst days on my post about the meaningless stats on missing the best days. The stock market had some bad days since then. I think some might be interested in reading about avoiding the worst days.
First I want to emphasize that the whole point of my previous post was [...]
Private equity buyouts are in vogue these days. It feels like almost every week there is an announcement that another company is bought by private equity firms. What’s going on? What makes them so prevalent and how will these buyout end up? I know there was a wave of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) in the 1980s. I [...]
The stock market had a good year this year. Despite the 2% drop yesterday, the S&P 500 index is up 7.5% since January. When I looked at all the Vanguard index funds, everything is up, except REITs. REITs are Real Estate Investment Trusts, which invest in commercial real estate like office buildings, shopping malls and what [...]
