Last week, a coworker in her mid-40’s asked me if I knew anything about mutual funds. While I know the basics of mutual fund investing, and I know specific stats on the mutual funds I own, I can’t say that I’m anywhere near an expert. Still, I asked her what she wanted to know.
I knew [...]
There was an interesting discussion about money and gender on the Today show yesterday. The experts started out by stating that it costs more to be a woman – dry cleaning, shampoos, cosmetics, etc.
I’m not sure that I agree. I think on average, this is correct. I look at my male coworkers and I’m sure [...]
Remember when I posted that I was going to start investing in stocks?
Well I did it. I just didn’t mean to.
I did a bunch of research on stocks and picked out one to start with (I decided to do the investing in chunks – choose one stock, buy it, do more research, choose another stock, [...]
The other day, J. Money posted about how he’s planning to start buying stocks again. I commented that buying stocks scared me a bit, but it got me to thinking. I’m not in a position to start heavily investing in the stock market, but I think it might be a good idea to take a [...]
Well, I did it. I set up my automatic contributions to my Roth IRA for 2009. I set it to max out the contribution by using monthly investments.
I’ve been putting it off because the market has been so tough to watch. It’s hard to look at how much my investment has lost and still [...]