Carnival of Personal Finance, 2nd Anniversary Edition

By Harry Sit

I haven’t submitted my posts to the Carnival of Personal Finance for a while because I have been very busy with work lately. But I had to participate in the 2nd Anniversary Edition because it’s so special. Bloggers were asked to submit their best articles in the last two years. As a result, this edition of the carnival is really the cream of the crop of personal finance blogging. The host JD at Get Rich Slowly did a fantastic job. It’s worth bookmarking.

For this special edition, I submitted Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) Is A Fantastic Deal. I wrote it when I first started blogging last year. If the employees in my company are representative of the population, only 50% of employees who are eligible actually participate in the ESPP. It follows that even fewer employees maximize their contributions to the ESPP. I showed in my post that the return on ESPP purchase approaches 90% annualized even if the stock went down. Every employee should take full advantage of it if they are able to sell the shares right away.

Every post in this “greatest hits” carnival is a gem, except I’m not a fan of lists like “10 ways”, “7 mistakes” etc. I’d rather read an article about one subject and dive really deep into that one subject. That’s just me though. I particularly liked these posts:

Enjoy!

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Posted on June 19, 2007 under News.

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  1. mapgirl on June 19, 2007
     

    Thanks so much for the link!

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