While Zecco is rolling out the new Zecco Trading Center, they’ve extended their popular Refer-a-Friend offer. If you share, you get rewarded: $100 for you and $100 for your friends when they open a new Zecco Trading account and fund with $10,000. There’s no limit to the number of friends you can refer. The offer [...]
The IRS just announced cost of living adjustments (COLA) affecting dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement items for the 2012 tax year. Many of the pension plan limitations change for 2012 because the increase in the COLA index met the statutory thresholds needed. Some limitations will remain unchanged. Here are some of the [...]
On Friday, 10/21/2011, Bay Area-based P2P company Prosper will be running a one-day promotion offering to make borrowers’ 2nd payment, up to $250.* If you apply for a new loan before midnight on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, Prosper will make your second payment for you. To be eligible for the offer, you cannot have posted [...]
No, I’m not talkin’ about a revolution here. Or occupying Wall Street. This is personal. This October, around the country, Kiplinger is hosting Financial Planning Days where certified planners are giving FREE, no-strings-attached guidance–with no pushy sales tactics. Watch the Financial Planning Days video: Each local Financial Planning Day features experts from the Financial Planning [...]
The Universe Called ETFs New to ETFs? So am I. So instead of flailing around, trying to select from the more than 1,000-plus ETFs currently available (!), I turned to the MarketRiders service to help me separate the wheat from the chaff–and whittle the number of ETFs to consider down to a reasonable number (nine, [...]
Have you gotten thrown around in the market–again? Many of us can say “yes” to that, especially recently. If you finally have the resolve to quit “playing the markets” and get serious with your money, you should think about this style of investing–used by major endowments and the super-wealthy. [Quick Primer on Random Walk theory: [...]
Now you can trade stocks while you are chatting and catching up with your Facebook friends. Wall Street by Zecco has just been introduced as a way to get real-time stock quotes (free) and direct access to stock trading right from Facebook. Bay Area-based Zecco has so far proved itself as being an online investing [...]
Watching gas prices go up and up at the gas station? If you have been looking for ways to profit personally from this rise, consider the MarketRiders Energy Hedge Fund: it includes over 300 ETFs that are impacted by the price of oil and gas including the huge oil and gas companies, exploration and production [...]
Loans of up to $35,000 are now available through Lending Club—previously, only loans up to $25,000 were allowed. The higher loan max makes it easier for borrowers funding large projects, like home improvements, via low-interest, fixed rate loans through Lending Club. According to LC CEO Renaud Laplanche, “The increase in maximum loan size was prompted [...]
