festival of investing - February 28, 2007
Welcome to the February 28, 2007 edition of festival of investing.
Paul Smith presents Tax changes cause concern for some shares posted at Investing using Fundamentals on the Aussie StockMarket, saying, “The article investigates how to find a profitable situation out of recent tax changes to investments in agricultural investments.”
FMF presents How to Identify Chart-Topping Mutual Funds in Advance posted at Free Money Finance, saying, “How to — you can’t!”
H.S. Ayoub presents Follow Along with Dr. Frost and Invest in Continucare posted at BioHealth Investor.
veryLegal presents Why You Should Not Dollar Cost Average posted at veryLegal, saying, “Think you know DCA? Think again! =). Great article that smashes the dollar cost averaging myth.”
Matthew Paulson presents Banking Reviews: The IGOBanking High-Yield Savings Account posted at Getting Green.
Rod Thomas presents The psychology of property investing posted at Prosperity from Property.
Rich presents Gay-friendly Investing posted at Queercents, saying, “Rich at Queercents writes about gay-friendly investing.”
Trent presents Analyzing the Auditor’s Statement: An Unqualified Opinion posted at Financial Education.
Murad Ali presents The Importance of Retirement Investment posted at The New Business World.
Leon Gettler presents Hedge funds should open their books to regulators - Sandy Weill posted at Sox First, saying, “Hedge funds should open their books to regulator says former Citigroup chief executive officer Sandy Weill. The system is rife with risk for investors and markets, he says.”
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Antique Antics posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.
Chuck Russell presents GM and Chrysler? XM Radio and Sirius Radio? posted at Car Buying Tips To Save You Money, saying, “I submitted this article because this is a merger worth noteing. If these 2 company’s do merge, this would be a good stock to have invested in.”
Alan presents Risk Taking - Living life to the fullest posted at Made to Be Great.
Silicon Valley Blogger presents Filthy Wal-Mart = Poor WMT Stock Performance? posted at The Digerati Life.
Ironman presents Visualizing the Worst Case Real Returns for the S&P 500 posted at Political Calculations, saying, “Political Calculations’ newest chart mapping the worst performance ever recorded by the S&P 500 for investment holding periods of 1 to 50 years, after inflation.”
Praveen presents Review of “The Rich Jerk” - Get It Free, Plus $1 posted at My Simple Trading System.
Ybother presents Top 10 Money Tips For Almost Everyone posted at TodaysTen.com: Daily Top Ten List to jumpstart your knowledge, saying, “10 tips for almost anyone. Motivates you to get interested in your money!”
Wenchypoo presents Social Security Alternatives posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket.
Trent presents Community Project: Public Domain Financial Library posted at Financial Education, saying, “Help us put together a great free resource.”
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