An Annuity Primer at The Personal Finance Weblog

The SEC has a a quick primer on annuities. As the boomer generation focuses more attention on income streams this product will be even more prevalent. [...] Read More


Quick Primer on the Roth IRA vs a Traditional IRA at The Personal Finance Weblog

If you'd like your retirement years to be as happy as those of the nice ladies pictured at left, it pays to get your story straight on retirement vehicles. One area where confusion often reigns is understanding the difference between a Roth IRA and a traditional IRA, and knowing which is better. Here is a quick primer, and then a little extended info to round it out. Here's a handy FAQ [...] Read More


The Annuity Debate at The Personal Finance Weblog

Annuities sometimes seem like "The Three Faces of Eve." You get people who love 'em, people who hate 'em and some just don't know. I want to direct you to an article in a trade journal that confronts this "multiple personality" issue of annuities. It's written by Harold Evensky who is a noted thought leader in the financial planning community. Mr. Evensky walks through his conversion from annuity basher to, when appropriate, [...] Read More


Bootstrapper's Primer: Starting with nothing at BootStrapMe

As we've explained in previous posts, starting with nothing or with whatever you have is part of the bootstrapping approach to entrepreneurship. Here, from Inc.com, are three bootstrappers who went above and beyond to build their start-ups. 1. Allen Shatto and his wife sold clover seed, beef and custom made crafts to raise money for the start-up phase of Shatto's chemical engineering consultant firm. In the end, the $3,000 they made [...] Read More


A shiny face? at Are you a beauty?

If you sweating in this hot and humid weather, or if you're having the T-zone shining problems all year long, you might consider getting yourself a matifying primer. Nothing I hate so much as the feeling of makeup sunk into my skin or slipped away from the heat and the sun. Although I tend to wear as little makeup as possible during summer (concealer, gloss and mascara is just about it), [...] Read More