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Consumer advocates have long denounced annuities for their high commissions, complex terms and high early surrender charges. Recently many have also warned about their safety as many insurance...
This Kiplinger article has non-stock investments which are claimed to provide respectable yields with less risk than stocks. Some that were mentioned include blue-chip IOUs, REIT preferreds and...
A division of Cantor Fitzgerald, Cantor Entertainment, recently filed for regulatory approval with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for a commodities futures market called the...
Here's a good review of the new LendingClub which has finished their SEC filing and is one of the only P2P lenders currently operating (everyone else is either shut down or is in an SEC quiet...
Money market funds invested in Treasuries will provide a negative return to investors if the Fed cuts rates next week, as its widely expected to do. This will be the first time this has ever...
Harvard today announced that its endowment had dropped by 22% or $8 billion. The loss is greater than the total endowments of all but 4 universities. This marks the popping of one of the last...
I was talking to some friends living in the Washington DC metro area, who told me that they are planning to rent out their place during the week of President-Elect’s Obama’s inauguration. I had...
The $40 billion Reserve Primary Money Market Fund that broke the buck is liquidating and its investors are slowly getting their money back. To date, about 30% of invested money has been returned....
There's an interesting Bloomberg article from John M. Berry that argues that the bailout will actually generate a profit from the government. He calls it a massive carry trade.
What's a carry...
More turbulence in the money market fund world as fallout from the Lehman collapse continues. Putnam closed its $12.3 billion Putnam Prime Money Market Fund while Dryfus and Columbia (a division...
One of the largest money market funds has frozen redemptions for seven days as the net asset value of its shares falls below $1.
THIS IS A MONEY MARKET FUND, NOT A MONEY MARKET ACCOUNT. MONEY...
Here are some of my real life tips that can hopefully be beneficial to you when looking for your next car. Some may be unconventional, but they all work!
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