Investing

Vanguard vs Fidelity – Which is better?

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I am trying to open a ROTH IRA for my emergency funds (will write a separate post to defend myself on this ). Right now, I have my employer sponsored accounts – 401k, employee stock purchase plan in Fidelity and personal investment account in Vanguard. When I initially opened the Vanguard account 5 years ago, [...]

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Covered Calls

This post was written by Robert at The College Investor, a personal finance and investment blog for young adults. If you invest in stocks, you may want to consider writing covered calls as a way to generate income on your positions. A call is an option contract to buy a specified number of  shares at [...]

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20 Smart Personal Investment tips

As I mentioned in my last post, I attended a personal investment seminar  during the LA Financial planning day. I am interested in learning more about investments and scared about it at the same time. So I religiously took notes throughout the talk. Here are the 20 key steps to make smart personal investments.

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Mid Year Investment Review

This post is the final part of a mid year review and tune up series. The first post of this series was It’s Christmas time. The second post was on Planning for taxes. Everyone of us might have started the year with new dreams and goals.  Now that half a year has gone by, there [...]

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Commission-free Vanguard ETF trades for Vanguard Brokerage clients

Vanguard, a long term leader in providing low-cost index and actively managed funds, announced today that they will be offering commission-free Vanguard ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) trades for their brokerage clients.  This is probably coming as a response to the competition from Schwab who introduced their commission-free Exchange Traded Funds late last year and Fidelity [...]

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