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The Carnival of Personal Finance #28

December 26th, 2005 | by mbhunter |

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Welcome to the 28th Carnival of Personal Finance! Great articles this week, so let’s get started!

Did you score a year-end bonus? Free Money Finance has some great ways to put it to good use.

Restaurant dining can hit your wallet pretty hard, but not if you do it the smart way. JustAnotherBlogger from Just Another Money Blog has a method to eat out for the price of the tip this holiday season.

Investing in individual stocks is a bit scary the first time you do it. Jeremy at Financial Revolution talks about his experiences with dividend reinvestment plans

Hans Mast of The (not so) Daily Me gives an update on the performance of his mutual funds. I suspect that he has a larger nest egg at 17 than a lot of people who are nearing retirement age.

The fine print giveth, and the fine print taketh away. Especially with rental car coverage from a credit card, as Multiple Mentality found out the hard way. We’ll all look a little more carefully now. Thanks MM!

In most circumstances, I think that paying off a mortgage early is a great idea if you can’t do a whole lot better with the money elsewhere. Seattle Simplicity thinks so, too.

“This is perhaps the most realistic-looking phishing spam that I’ve ever received. If only they had better timing… After all, who’s looking for information on tax returns at this time of year? I’d look for this one to become much more common as we move into tax season,” says nickel of the financially personable Five Cent Nickel.

Yaro of Entrepreneur’s Journey undid his corporate mindset and realized that a personal touch in business works better to brand a small business than than the biggest of appearances.

Technical indicators can never predict exactly what’s going to happen in a market. (At least none that have been found yet!) Azouz of Trading Systems points this out with an example that uses an advance/decline indicator.

Personal finance bloggers have been known to read these things called “books.” (In some circles books are a dying breed, believe it or not!) Blueprint for Financial Prosperity compiled a list of some of our faves.

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere — Flexo of Consumerism Commentary, the originator of this fantabulous blog carnival, comments on a Fortune magazine housing bubble article, offering more food for cogitation as well.

People are living longer, so life insurance premiums should go down, right? Not so fast, says InsureBlog.

Cha-ching! Sound Money Tips has a great deal for opening a brokerage account. How does a hundred bucks grab ya?

Early Riser does some number crunching on how to optimize contributions to an employee stock purchase plan.

Five tips make for great year-end advice. Thanks, Sitting Pretty!

Being able to calculate a company’s return on its invested capital is a key tool for recognizing the companies that are giving investors the biggest bang for their bucks. Political Calculations provides the tool to do the math!

A very detailed article, one in a series, on some of the ins and outs of long term care insurance provided by Search Light Crusade. More than your money’s worth on this one for sure!

IPOs have made some people a bundle of money, but companies going private can do the same, too! Financial Revolution talks about several of these opportunities.

Not the art of motorcycle maintenance, but instead the Art of Spending — authored by Jeffrey Strain of Personal Finance Advice.

New and innovative exchange traded funds for various types of sector investing, provided cheerfully by Canadian Capitalist.

Two thousand five was quite a year in personal finance. Million Dollar Goal highlights some noteworthy money matters of this past year.

Neo’s Nest Egg advises us on contributing to 401(k)s and employee stock purchase plans. Good discussion in the comments as well.

And as one final post, yours truly talks about materialism this time of year.

That’s it for this carnival! Thanks for reading! It was a lot of fun reading everyone’s posts, and thanks for submitting your fine work. Next week, The Real Returns hosts!

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