20 Cents from January 2011

By 2 Cents on February 2nd, 2011 | Category: 20 Cents | 7 comments
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So the first month of 2011 is already over. How are those 2011 goals coming along? Are you still on track? I’ve had a couple of setbacks myself, but I’m not taking it lying down. I’m taking some corrective actions and I hope to be able to report that they worked!

Without further delay, here are a few of my favourite articles from January of 2011. This is a mere sampling of the great information out there. I highlight lots of other articles each day on Twitter. You can follow me @BalanceJunkie.

1. At Today’s Economy Blog, Kevin Press wrote about Muskoka Chairs and Unanswerable Questions. The article captured the retirement anxiety many of us feel at this time of year as financial services firms “pose virtually unanswerable questions about how much you need to save for retirement that leave people feeling like [...]

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20 Cents from October 2010

By 2 Cents on November 1st, 2010 | Category: 20 Cents | 5 comments

I hope everyone had fun on Halloween. (I’ll probably be living with a sugar hangover for the next couple of days.) There were too many great articles this month for me to include even a fraction of them here, so I tried to choose a selection that included some new sites that you might not be familiar with yet, as well as some continuing favourites.

As always, if you want to know more about what I’m reading, you can follow me on Twitter @BalanceJunkie. Enjoy this month’s collection!

1. Jackie from Money Crush had some sage Advice from Yoda as part of her 31 Days to a Better Bank Balance project. I wasn’t into Star Wars at all until my 3 boys came along, but now I’m very fluent in all things related to the saga. Yoda is without a doubt [...]

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Stocks and Bonds: Pros and Cons

By 2 Cents on July 26th, 2010 | Category: Investing | 5 comments

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

~ Mark Twain

Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance #268 hosted by Ultimate Money Blog. Thanks!

I was going to do a single article on the pros and cons of investing in different asset classes right now, but I decided that there was too much information there, so I’m going to break it up into 3 articles which I’ll post this week. Today, we’ll take a look at the two asset classes you probably hear the most about: stocks and bonds.

The idea of this series is not to provide recommendations about which asset allocation is correct, but to [...]

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