The Impact of Fees on Your Investment

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After reading a post on Bucking the Trend’s (now defunct) site entitled, How Vanguard Will Save Me $2,700 and the outstanding must-read Stock Series by JL Collins, I realized I needed to learn more about low-cost index fund investing. I picked up The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Vanguard founder John Bogle and…

Save at Least 20% of your Income to Live Within your Means

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In our opinion, if you aren’t saving 10% of your income for retirement and at least another 10% of your income for savings/emergency fund/college/investing/etc., then your financial life is out of balance and you are definitely living beyond your means. Most people start with their take-home pay, deduct out all their various monthly expenses and…

Lending Club for Fun and Profit

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We recently started exploring the industry known as Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending, and the more we learn about it the more excited we become by the industry as a whole, and specifically by the market leader Lending Club. It’s still early on, but we’re earning over a 15% annualized return on our money so far, with…