Posts filed under Investing

01.09.2009

Free Book: 2009 Action Plan for Your Money

The other day I was browsing some deal sites and found out about a free financial book download coming this week. It’s Suze Orman’s new book, "2009 Action Plan: Keeping Your Money Safe & Sound", offered by Oprah. Along with the free book, Suze offered some advice on the Oprah show as part of the [...]

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12.24.2008

The Most Important Part of the Portfolio

This past weekend, I chatted with two friends who took a financial economics class with me at Cal for one of our upper division electives. We spent a short amount of time reminiscing about our Econ days and studying together for Econ exams. From that financial economics class (Econ 136), the two practical terms I [...]

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11.24.2008

The Emotional Investor

I was recently talking to a financial advisor at Charles Schwab with a relative and he showed us the emotional stages of an investor: Image: Charles Schwab He mentioned that currently, the majority of investors fall in between the panic stage (where small investors dump their holdings) and the capitulation stage (where large investors e.g. [...]

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