Archive for “October 2006”

Writing Down Your Financial Goals

Written by The Dividend Guy on October 21, 2006 1 Comment »

J.D. over at Get Rich Slowly wrote an interesting piece about setting up financial goals. In it he covers long, intermediate, and short term goals.

He quotes:
Many people make poor financial decisions because they don’t have long-term personal goals. If you don’t understand that buying a new cell phone or playing a game […]

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25 Rules to Grow Rich By

Written by The Dividend Guy on October 19, 2006 7 Comments »

Money Magazine has recently published a list of 25 things that they claim will make you rich. Although I think that this title is total fluff - stuff that catches a readers attention to get them to buy the magazine - as it covers things like never hiring a roofer who is going door-to-door. […]

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Are You An Investor or a Gambler?

Written by The Dividend Guy on October 16, 2006 2 Comments »

There was a really interesting article in this months issue of Moneysense about deciding if you are a gambler or an investor. I have never seen clear cut criteria on this so it was very interesting to see. The author, Duncan Hood, provided a list of 11 traits that a clinical psychologist in […]

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Doing Some Thinkin’ About Risk

Written by The Dividend Guy on October 15, 2006 Be the First to Comment »

I have been watching some MoneyTalk on ROB TV lately (you Canadians will know what this is). Although I find this show can be a bit biased towards mutual funds as the guests often come from the fund companies and are trying to convince us that we are all pretty much idiots and need […]

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