Archive for October, 2011
Next Entries »From Career Builder: 12 High Paying Bachelor’s Degrees
Monday, October 3rd, 2011Found this on MSN (For descriptions of the career, visit the article). One thing I’m not sure about is why they go the “flavorist” route as a career for someone with a chemical engineering background. My wife’s company pays a lot more than that for starting chemical engineers. Anyway, the list is interesting and is [...]
Do You Know What Your 401(k)’s Personal Rate of Return is for 2011?
Monday, October 3rd, 2011I just logged on to my wife’s 401(k) account. The balance is roughly $60,000 less than it was at the peak early this year (and this includes several thousand dollars of contributions). OUCH. Fidelity calculates a personal rate of return, which is the return adjusted for the timing of contributions. Our personal rate of return [...]
Year to Date Total Returns for S&P and Other Benchmarks (September 2011)
Saturday, October 1st, 2011Wow! What a nasty quarter. The first graphic shows the total returns for the asset classes I follow here at AFM. It wasn’t pretty: September also market the 5th straight month of losses for 7 of the 10 asset classes. Please click on the below graphic to download a handy PDF version of the graphic.
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