Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Hope Your 401K is in Fixed Income

Three months I mentioned in the post Mr. Financial Planner - Go Home and Get Your Shine Box! how 100% of my company-managed 401K was in the Fixed Income fund.
The statement lists the returns for all the investment options I had at my disposal. My Cash Fixed Fund earned just a 0.97% return. But [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Mr. Financial Planner - Go Home and Get Your Shine Box!

Last September when I restarted my 401K plan at my company I put 100% of my investment in the Cash Fixed Fund account. This sparked a conversion with a financial planner, who felt he could show me the errors of my way. He didn’t know who he was taking to. After [...]