Financial Planning

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P/E

The advice thread has gotten long and tedious. I think there are some who might be confused as to how a P/E is determin...
23 comments posted 17yrs
posted by erichktn
23 comments posted 17yrs posted by erichktn

FDIC limit

anyone hear any talk about making the $250k FDIC limit permanent, or otherwise increasing from the original $100k after...
2 comments posted 17yrs
posted by rowdy'sboss
2 comments posted 17yrs posted by rowdy'sboss

Professor a Victim of Madoff

I have been reading Fooled by Ponzi (and Madoff): How Bernard Madoff Made Off with My Money by Stephen Greenspan. See h...
4 comments posted 17yrs
posted by k.norak
4 comments posted 17yrs posted by k.norak

Schwab Institutional transaction costs

My financial planner has been using Schwab Institutional to hold my accounts and has been using a lot Dimension Fund Ad...
5 comments posted 17yrs
posted by WalterS
5 comments posted 17yrs posted by WalterS

Goodbye, 2008

I'm curious about how people here have fared through the past year?? Just in general or percentage terms. Any notable s...
19 comments posted 17yrs
posted by GeorgeCFL
19 comments posted 17yrs posted by GeorgeCFL

StockCharts.com

Any opinions here about Stockcharts.com? Is it it a worth subscribing to? Are there better/cheaper options? Thanks
15 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Joe
15 comments posted 17yrs posted by Joe

Advice?

To all Gurus on this list. Do you think US stock markets are hovering around the bottom? Or do you think the worst is y...
119 comments posted 17yrs
posted by ccalls0001
119 comments posted 17yrs posted by ccalls0001

How much to withdraw from retirement account?

My mother has to decide what percent she wants to withdraw from her retirement trust by the end of the month. The perce...
9 comments posted 17yrs
posted by ahorsefly
9 comments posted 17yrs posted by ahorsefly

Early retirement & penalty for earning wages?

I've been trying to rapidly catch up on retirement info for various reasons lately. It was my impression that of one re...
8 comments posted 17yrs
posted by scott.me.usenet
8 comments posted 17yrs posted by scott.me.usenet

DIY Resources

Read with interest an earlier thread discussing the relative merits of DIY vs. finding a money manager to help with fin...
20 comments posted 17yrs
posted by jbradsha
20 comments posted 17yrs posted by jbradsha

401(a) vs 403(b) vs 457 (b)

I have 2 questions: 1) At my work we have option to invest in all three of above (401(a), 403(b), and 457 (b)) retireme...
2 comments posted 17yrs
posted by sanjaynewsgroup
2 comments posted 17yrs posted by sanjaynewsgroup

Mortgage or HELOC and Refinancing

A few years ago I refinanced my mortgage and I ended up with a HELOC for the same value as my mortgage balance, about w...
2 comments posted 17yrs
posted by evandro
2 comments posted 17yrs posted by evandro

Bank Counseling for Consumers?

Can anyone share the latest resources, approaches or solution-oriented stories for those who are upside-down on their h...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by honda.lioness
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by honda.lioness

Portrait of a White Elephant

Taxpayer has a lovely oil portrait of a White Elephant. Seeing that a local museum is going to be putting on an exhibit...
2 comments posted 17yrs
posted by rowdy'sboss
2 comments posted 17yrs posted by rowdy'sboss