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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007It has been months since I last put together a calculator. My latest calculator, the Asset Allocation and Portfolio Performance Calculator, came to fruition after I put together my post about the Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns. The returns I talked about in that post were all individual index returns. Those are fine and [...]
Building Wealth on $1.67 Per Day!
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006How’s that for a catchy title? This post was inspired by the following comment I received from a reader:
Do You Know Your “R-Score?”
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Nationwide, the sponsor of the RetirAbility Check, is a current advertiser on AllFinancialMatters. Nationwide has developed a new software program that will allow people to get a sense of where they are in their ability to retire. The program is called RetirAbility Check. Although I did find the exercise relatively easy to go through, I [...]
JLP’s Question of the Day – Prepaying Mortgage
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006Here’s today’s Question of the Day: Should people prepay their mortgage (pay it off early)? Or, should they pay their regular payment and invest the amount they would have used to prepay? This is one topic that is heavily debated because at issue isn’t just the math, which depending on the mortgage interest rate, makes [...]
How to Convert an Interest Rate to an Annual Percentage Yield (APY)
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Have you ever wanted to know how to convert a stated interest rate to an Annual Percentage Yield (APY)? If so, read on because you’re in for some real excitement! First off, we need to understand what the Annual Percentage Yield (APY – from now on I’ll refer to it as “APY”) is. Say a [...]
Calculators You Might Find Useful
Saturday, September 9th, 2006Some of you may have already noticed that I added a new box to the right-hand sidebar with links to all the calculators I have created. I would love it if you would try them out and use them. Some of them are even useful. Here’s the list. Enjoy! Annual Gas Cost Calculator College Expense [...]
Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Let’s start with a sad fact: A recent survey by Hewitt Associates found that only 31% of workers ages 18 to 25 who are eligible for a 401(k) participate in their company’s plan. I found that fact in an older column by Sandra Block of the USA Today. The article doesn’t state whether or not [...]
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