Two popular investing authors, Larry Swedroe and Allan Roth have blogs over at Money Watch. (I highlighted a series from Allan’s blog two weeks ago.) These two gentlemen really know their stuff, so if you haven’t checked out their blogs before, I’d encourage you to do so.
The following are the latest from each of their blogs:
- Are You Paying Hidden Bond Fees? from Larry Swedroe
- It’s Not How Much You Pay in Costs, It’s Total Return That Matters from Allan Roth
My other favorites from this week:
Investing Articles
- Hiring a Financial Planner: The First Phone Call from Provident Plan
- Get the Best Roth IRA Rates from Amateur Asset Allocator
- What Are Series I Savings Bonds? from Five Cent Nickel
- Why Are You Running Your Company’s 401(k) Plan? from Wohlner Financial
Other Money-Related Articles
- Surrounding Yourself with Successful People from ShoeMoney
- 6 Things to Know About Your Student Loans from Money Under 30
- Marriage Tax Penalty and Unit of Taxation from The Finance Buff
- How to Find a Job, Even if You Have an Ugly Resume from Wealth Pilgrim
Blog Carnivals
- Carnival of Personal Finance from Canadian Finance Blog
- Best of Money Carnival from Gen Y Wealth
- Festival of Stocks hosted by Modern Graham
- Carnival of Financial Planning from The Skilled Investor
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Thanks for the link, Mike! I also highlighted one of your articles today – 11 tips for picking mutual funds. Good stuff!!
Hi Paul. You’re welcome. And thanks.
Blog posts like the one from Amateur Asset Allocator you link to frustrate the heck out of me. They are written on the faulty premise that people shouldn’t look for “IRA rates” or “Roth IRA rates” because there is no such thing. These posts usually confuse the concept of an ownership arrangement with the concept of accounts and use them interchangeably. While it is correct to say such arrangements don’t credit interest, it is not correct to say that IRA accounts that credit interest do not exist. The supporting argument is usually that you must purchase an interest bearing investment within the account (i.e. the account itself cannot pay interest) and that you can buy different yielding investments; however; this is simply not true of all types of accounts. You can go to a bank and open an interest bearing, FDIC insured IRA account or Roth IRA account with an APY or “rate.”
The reason this frustrates me so much is that when people look for such accounts with a search engine, the results are dominated by a bunch of SEO blog posts saying that there is no such thing and/or you’re misinformed for even asking.