Monthly Archives: August, 2008

Decision Made – I Am Moving All Of Our Accounts To Vanguard

Yesterday, I mentioned that I was thinking about moving all of our retirement and education savings accounts to one brokerage, Vanguard.  Spurred on by this comment from reader Matt, I did a little more research, and I have decided to make the move. Vanguard offers enhanced services for customers who qualify.  Qualification for these services [...]

Stuck Trying To Decide What To Do About My Retirement And Education Savings Accounts

I’ve spent the last few hours trying to decide what to do with our retirement and education savings accounts.  As it stands, my wife and I have our Roth IRAs with one brokerage, my daughter’s ESA is with a second brokerage, and my SEP-IRA is with a third.  I’d love to move them all to [...]

Sites That Help You Find Personal Finance Blogs And Connect With Personal Finance Bloggers

Here are a few sites that can help you (and me) keep up with the ever expanding pf-blogging community. PFBlogs.Org – If you are looking for personal finance blogs, start with PFBlogs.Org.  As I type this, PFBlogs is tracking and aggregating over 1100 blogs.  When a personal finance blogger posts new content, PFBlogs will let [...]

How Free Spirits And Money Nerds Can Help Each Other Out

Chances are, if you are reading this article, you are the money nerd in your family.  You spend hours thinking about how to fund your retirement.  You balance your checkbook – to the penny.  You create a detailed, down-to-the-last-dollar budget.  You work hard to save money and you are focused on the future. In my [...]