Financial Planning

Any Site That Graphs Freddie Mac Bond Trades?

Is there any site that will show me a graph of actual trade prices for Freddie Mac bonds over the last six months? Yiel...

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posted by westes-usc

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Bond ETF at maturity

One attraction of individual bonds is that you can plan on the value at maturity. Bond mutual funds do not mature. I wo...

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posted by FranksPlace2

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cash - for IRA, college, mortage, etc

We have some "investments" that we need to fund, and was wondering what order makes the most sense. We have cash in som...

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posted by pschuman_no_spam_me

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CD's maturing and taxes

I have CD's at many banks and one is always maturing every other month . Should I just rely on the 1099 to know how muc...

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posted by nonsense

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Roth-icize Now?!

It may be the ripest of times to convert a traditional IRA to a Roth one. Depressed values now mean low conversion tax....

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posted by dumbstruc

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International Bank With No Mortgage, CDO, or Derivative Exposures?

I am searching for a relative for a large international bank that is very well capitalized and does not have any exposu...

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posted by westes-usc

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Strategy for Reducing Tax on Retirement Plan Withdrawals

I've been trying to figure out a way to withdraw funds from retirement accounts without paying tax at income rates. How...

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posted by spam

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investing in precious metals

What are the options for investing in precious metals? - Buying actual gold and silver. - Buying ETFs such as GLD. What...

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posted by ghanwani

19 comments posted 17yrs posted by ghanwani

Pre-Paid Legal Services--are they worth joining?

Back in 2003, when I was working as a full-time teacher, I joined a Pre-Paid Legal Service. You can call & get advice f...

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posted by sandyhb6

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Variable annuities not so bad?

In the past, Moshe Milevsky has been an outspoken critic of variable annuities. He's singing a different tune now. What...

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posted by not

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Munis: Sale of the Century?

Some analyst on CNBC had this to say today: _____________________ You really have to start to put some money to work,"...

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posted by jbradsha

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Emulating the Dow with individual stocks

If I have some amount of money, say $X, how can I compute how much of that needs to be invested in each of the individu...

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posted by ghanwani

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plan for higher income tax rates

As the article explains, the inexorable logic of "tax the rich" is to extend the definition of "rich" to lower and lowe...

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posted by beliavsky

8 comments posted 17yrs posted by beliavsky

Vanguard's misleading advertisement -- style momentum works

Vanguard has an advertisement that says "Simple truth: performance chasing is a losing investment strategy" Apparently...

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posted by beliavsky

2 comments posted 17yrs posted by beliavsky

How to avoid participating in bubbles

Over the last so many years, we have seen several bubbles, such as dotcom bubble, commodity bubble, housing bubble, etc...

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posted by ichudov

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