Back in December 2013 and January 2014, I bought 5-year CDs from Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed). Those CDs paid 3% APY when other 5-year CDs were paying a little over 2%. The yield on a bond ...
What To Do With A Maturing CD
Back in October 2015, I bought into a CD special from Northwest Federal Credit Union. It was a 3-year CD at 3%, which was a very good rate at that time. That CD is maturing next month. Another reader ...
MassMutual Whole Life Legacy 10 Pay With LISR Review
Over the Thanksgiving holidays a friend asked me whether he should buy whole life insurance. He said an acquaintance had been pitching him this whole life insurance policy as a better way to invest in ...
Transfer IRA From Mutual Fund To Credit Union For CDs
Ever since I bought the 3-year 3% add-on CD from Northwest Federal Credit Union in October 2015, I was hoping a similar deal would pop up. But no, there hasn't been any. After the Fed raised the ...
Bonds Had Good Returns: Wrong In CDs?
Both stocks and bonds did well in the first half of 2014, especially bonds. Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund returned 3.9% in six months ended on June 30 whereas Vanguard Total Stock Market Index ...
2013: Great For Investments, Bad For Investing
This will be the last post in 2013. So far this year this blog published 134 articles and received 1,250 comments (350 of which were my replies to readers' comments). I didn't track the total hours I ...