Jan 5th, 2008
January 5, 2008 Link Payday
The fifth and the twentieth of each month are paydays for many people (my part-time job pays me on those days), so every fifth and twentieth of the month I put together a few links of interest in the personal finance online world. Here’s your first link payday for 2008:
Mrs. Micah asks personal finance bloggers if they would think about becoming a certified financial planner. Personally, I have a real aversion to financial planners, so I’m not very interested:
JLP at All Financial Matters highlights a Larry Swedroe newsletter article questioning if when an active mutual fund manager beats the market, is it luck? I’m not sure it is, but as we’ve discussed before, it’s certainly difficult to beat the index.
Tricia at Blogging Away Debt highlights a story on a McDonald’s worker finding a check for $185,000–who returned it to its rightful owner. Talk about doing the right thing!
Nickel at Five Cent Nickel tries to help a reader figure out the impact of marriage on Roth IRA limits. As a single guy who doesn’t make enough to disqualify himself from a Roth IRA, I’ve not researched this much, but it could surely be a big deal for lots of others.
Finally, Trent over at The Simple Dollar, never one to fail to inspire lots of discussion, had quite a few interesting, thought provoking posts recently, but in particular, I liked his discussion on whether or not a personal finance writer for the New York Times failed to walk her own talk when she bought a home on the spur of the moment, raising the bigger question of whether or not a personal financial writer ought to be expected to follow their own message. Personally, I think I always need to walk my own talk, but there are clearly those who don’t see things the same way I do (which is fine with me, we’re all different).
Perhaps a better question, then, would be whether you want to be the good CFP and stand between trusting people and bad advisers…
Thanks for mentioning it.