Short Takes: Emotional Investing, “the Grid”, and more
1. Jason Zweig at the Wall Street Journal has some ideas to allow you to get a feeling of control over your investments. Investors often make big mistakes when their react emotionally. Zweig’s suggestions may help investors deal with their emotional side.
2. Preet explains how financial advisor behaviour is driven by a compensation grid.
3. Potato tells us that Petro Canada Mobility is jacking up its rates for cell phone air time. In addition to increasing the cost of air time, they are increasing the minimum deposit from $20 every 6 months to $25 every 4 months, an 87.5% increase. I have a cheap Petro Canada cell phone mainly because I use it so little that the minimum deposit is relevant to me. Thanks for the warning, Potato. I’ll be getting rid of this phone if I can find a better deal.
4. The Big Cajun Man dug into his archives for the story of how he made allowances for his kids work for his family.
2. Preet explains how financial advisor behaviour is driven by a compensation grid.
3. Potato tells us that Petro Canada Mobility is jacking up its rates for cell phone air time. In addition to increasing the cost of air time, they are increasing the minimum deposit from $20 every 6 months to $25 every 4 months, an 87.5% increase. I have a cheap Petro Canada cell phone mainly because I use it so little that the minimum deposit is relevant to me. Thanks for the warning, Potato. I’ll be getting rid of this phone if I can find a better deal.
4. The Big Cajun Man dug into his archives for the story of how he made allowances for his kids work for his family.
Thanks for the link! Unfortunately my IP has changed again.
ReplyDeleteThe permalink is http://www.holypotato.com/?p=665
Thanks for the mention
ReplyDeletePotato: I've fixed the link in my post. For some reason, when I direct my browser to your site, it turns the "nice" holypotato URL into the IP address in the location bar at the top of my (Firefox) browser. I also still can't navigate to your site from Google Reader because it has "/blog/blog" instead of "/blog" in the URL.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link! Have a good weekend.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link Michael - I'm envious of your morning commute!
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