Happy Friday! Thank you to everybody who participated in the comments this week. There’s been a lot of thought-provoking conversation on each of this week’s posts. 
Just a handful of articles (and one short video) for this week’s roundup:
Investing Articles
- You Need to Understand Compound Interest from frequent commenter Rick Francis’s new blog: Pondering Money
- Roth Mania from Joe Taxpayer
- The 5 Stages of Investing Enlightenment from Free Money Finance
- Where Are the Low-Cost Commodity Mutual Funds? from Amateur Asset Allocator
Other Personal Finance Articles
- What Comic Book Characters Taught Me About Personal Finance from Green Panda Treehouse
- How to Use a Credit Card for Protection guest post by MLR at Moolanomy
- Do You Find Frugality Embarrassing? from MoneyNing
- What Is Your Definition of Self-Worth? from Wealth Pilgrim (This short video is probably my favorite post from this week. Definitely worth 3 minutes.)
Blog Carnivals
- Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by All Financial Matters
- Economy and Your Finances hosted by One Mint
- Festival of Stocks hosted by TIPBlog
- Carnival of Financial Planning hosted by The Intelligent Speculator
Enjoy your weekends. I look forward to speaking with you on Monday.
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Thank you to everybody who participated in the comments this week. There’s been a lot of thought-provoking conversation on each of this week’s posts.
Thanks to you for the role you play in making it possible, Mike.
Rob
Mike,
You put a lot of work into this blog and it really shows. Now that I’m blogging I can really appreciate just how much work it is! Thanks for the link!
-Rick
I am a new reader to your blog and a newcomer to passive investing. Just trying to get my portfolio together now…… must admit I am nervous about 15% or so in REIT funds right now……. I know they have been coming up, but aren’t there some real problems for commercial real estate ahead? I was thinking of the Vanguard REIT ETF. Will someone please reassure me!! I know this is the point of passive investing, but this is hard!
Valerie:
For what it’s worth, many advisors would not actually recommend 15% in REITs. (I don’t hold any REITs other than what’s included in my Total Stock Market Fund.) On the other hand, some experts do recommend significant REIT holdings.
My opinion: If you’re not comfortable with a 15% REIT allocation, don’t do it.
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