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Reader Mailbag: A Bit of Auden

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“You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.” - W.H. Auden, Horae Canonicae I’m a 30 yr old professional and have saved up about $40k from living within my means sitting in my savings account (I know, I could put it to better use). I contribute about 10-15% in 401k off… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - June 3, 2010 at 11:20 am

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Fidelity Cuts 529 Plan Fees, Changes Age-Based Asset Allocations

On December 1st, Fidelity Investments made significant reductions to the management fees on the 529 college savings plans that they manage. From this AP article: Fees on indexed plans will be cut in half, while fees on actively managed and advisor-sold plans will be cut by a third, the firm said. Fidelity manages plans sold in Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The changes mean a family with $50,000 in an indexed portfolio might now pay $125 a year in fees, instead of $250, assuming the amount in the plan remained unchanged. [...] Fidelity, which is based… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - December 3, 2009 at 10:20 am

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Accelerating Your Mortgage Payoff = Debt Free Euphoria

Becoming financial debt totally free can be a euphoric feeling that brings on a freer, less complicated way of life. Becoming financial debt totally free can be very difficult to achieve completely, particularly in this credit score large world we live in. You want it? You got it-just signal here. Appear around your house at all the issues you have bought more than the previous three many years. Flat panel Television, new smart phone, tons of footwear (tons), shiny automobile and a few sunny weekends in Bermuda. Wow, I bet you truly did not need all that stuff and probably… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - November 12, 2009 at 12:20 am

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Why My Net Worth Is Now Negative Again

That’s most most lirly shocking. “WHAT DID TRENT DO?” I can presently sense the regular batch of critics in the feedback cracking their knuckles a lot much more than this one. Really, the alter is pretty easy. I produced the option to stop counting the worth of my home as an asset in my net truly worth calculations. I also did the precise exact same with our automobiles. Let’s back once more up a bit. I’m a big believer that calculating your net truly worth - which is your complete home minus your complete debts - is the best way… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - August 16, 2009 at 11:20 am

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Rule #7: Watch Your Progress – But Make It Fun.

A reader asked me if I could eas into a handful of rules. Correct following some cautious believed, I arrived up with a checklist of fourteen fundamental “rules” that summarize my cash and existence philosophy. I’ll be presenting these as a weekly sequence. 1 of the preliminary issues I did when I started turning my financial scenario about is to begin keeping track of my net truly worth more than time. Each and every week (and later on on every and and each and month), I calculated the worth of all of my home, all my debts, and the distinction… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - July 31, 2009 at 1:20 pm

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Financial Freedom Equals Cashflow Leveraged Wealth

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - July 30, 2009 at 10:20 am

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