Analyzing Wealth

I was exchanging emails with a former coworker yesterday, and we have had mutual frustration with my employer. Not that this is rare; I thin...

Ah yes. All fund companies have something to offer you that nobody else has-- funds that will beat the market! Or so they will tell you. You...

I'm a big fan of the Net Worth metric. I think it paints a nice picture of what position you are in financially, and gives you an easy w...

I've danced around it a bit, partly because I knew I had more changes to make, but I think it's time to go ahead and post my allocat...

Conventional wisdom says everyone needs some bonds. If you don't need them for income, you need them for a diversifier, to balance out ...

JLP at AllFinancialMatters has a disagreement with some arguments on the virtues of paying off a mortgage early . I agree with JLP, and it c...

I try to catch up on all the blogs first thing Monday morning when I can. My Money Blog reveals some misinformation (or at least misleading ...

Think about dividing your expenses in this manner: 1) Necessities. Housing, food, gas, clothes, etc. 2) Personal and financial betterment. T...

I currently drive a Honda Pilot. It's a good value, as SUVs go, and I got a decent deal on it when I bought it new in the Fall of 2005. ...

A few great personal finance blog posts from the last couple of days: Trent at The Simple Dollar talks about the all-important tradeoff bet...

So I'm impatient! I keep telling myself to wait a full month before updating my net worth, but it's fun to update, so I haven't ...

After giving the matter a lot of thought, I made some changes in my accounts that "fix" my allocation problem without forcing me t...

The last couple of weeks I have been giving asset allocation a lot of thought. Everyone has their own ideas about this topic, and I'm st...

This has been a hot topic around the blogosphere lately. The most recent entry I read is from Consumerism Commentary: Renting Makes You Rich...

Starbucks, why must you tempt me? Some mornings I just wake up and need a chai latte from Starbucks.A Chai and a blueberry muffin make a te...

Jim over at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity published a devil's advocate piece on adjustible rate mortgages . It was written by Coli...

A bit about my situation: Debt: I have a mortgage and an auto loan, and that's all at present. The auto loan should be paid off by the e...

I am a 27 year-old statistician with an interest in personal finance and an obsession for research and analysis. I've been out of grad s...