Are you college prepared?

I know the theme of this blog, is investing for high school, college and young professionals but I wanted to include an article that I came across today with useful college information. Your college choice maybe one of the biggest decisions of your life, and this decision should not be taken lightly. College can open many career doors and lay the foundation for a successful financial future.

http://www.knowhow2go.org/

Personal Finance Software from Quicken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5zzeuhrwUM

Article from Motley Fool

This article contains a lot of common sense advice, but I like some of the points they make. Blue chip stocks are important because they creat a "buffer" for your investments. I would balance blue chips with one or two speculative stocks and then add in some bonds or etf's to help diversify your portfolio.

http://www.fool.com/personal-finance/retirement/2008/05/28/want-to-retire-rich.aspx

Financial Planning websites, reviewed by forbes.com

The link below includes several online financial planning sites reviewed by http://www.forbes.com/ . Please feel free to check out the link. The best approach is probably to review the sites in person and then get familiar with one or two that will help you reach your individual financial planning goals. I personally like yahoo finance, marketwatch, and sharebuilder for my online resources, but forbes.com does a really nice job of uncovering a lot of other resources.

http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/category.jhtml?id=62

Young investment advice

Check out this article. Some good insight on both online and paper investment tools. I would echo what this guy is saying regarding taking advantage of your companies 401k and setting aside a set amount each week/month.

http://www.youngmoney.com/investing/young_investors/060118

Microsoft Video

Recent interview with Bill Gates, featured on http://www.marketwatch.com/ , another good site to checkout updates on the financial world.

http://www.marketwatch.com/tvradio/bcPlayer.asp?bcpid=203719194&bclid=86272812&bctid=1576205457

Article on Renting Vs. Buying

This is a pretty interesting article on renting vs. buying. Like everything else it comes down to what your own financial situation is. Please as always feel free to post comments.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/business/28leonhardt.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1211990585-5SrPTKvrvVOiDZvkgZz/6Q

Financial Report Card Article

Hello All,

I came across this link today. I thought it would be useful to add the link to our blog. Hopefully you find this "free financial report card" useful and informative.


http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/RetirementandWills/PlayingCatchUp/YourFreeFinancialReportCard.aspx

Financial Terminology

I have compiled a few websites that do a good job providing definitions of commonly used financial terms:

http://www.sharebuilder.com/sharebuilder/Plan/article_LPOVR001.aspx

http://www.investorwords.com/

http://www.investopedia.com/dictionary/

http://biz.yahoo.com/f/g/

http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosa.htm

http://money.cnn.com/services/glossary/a.html

Introduction to the blog!

May 27th, 2008


I am a 25 year old male living in Stamford, CT. My goal with this blog is to reach as many young investors as possible. It is easy for 40-55 year old people to be bombarded with mail from financial advisors or to see various commercials on TV. This Blog however will focus on giving the 18-30 year old investor the tools and advice necessary to start building a healthy financial future. Rising education costs, and a competitive job market make saving for the future a very big must... Given that this is the first blog post on the site we have not had a chance to add a lot fo contect but there will be a lot of new information being added to the blog daily. Hopefully we will start to build a loyal reader base. As always please feel free to post any comments or interesting thoughts.