Calling all blogger submissions to the April 19, 2007 Carnival of Financial Planning

THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog will host the new Carnival of Financial Planning on Thursday, April 19, 2007. Bloggers, please make your submissions by Tuesday, March 17 at 11PM PDT.

The Carnival of Financial Planning highlights bloggers’ best articles on personal financial planning for individuals and families. This weekly Blog Carnival focuses on efficient and sustainable personal financial planning practices that can lead to lifetime financial security. The Carnival of Financial Planning invites the submission of articles that help readers to improve their lifetime financial planning decision-making.

For more information, you can find the The Carnival of Financial Planning home page here.

Submit your best financial planning blog article here. The Skilled Investor highly recommends that you include a couple of sentences that describe your submission in the “Remarks” section of the submission form. Through your brief summary remarks, you will develop reader interest in your article.

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Personal Financial Planning

• Carnival of Financial Planning – November 1, 2007 Edition (The Carnival of Financial Planning takes a long-term view of personal financial planning for individuals and families. We focus on efficient and sustainable personal financial planning practices that can lead to lifetime financial security. This edition is arranged by subject heading, so that you can browse efficiently. Enjoy! The Skilled Investor Budgeting Kevin Fleming presents Why I Switched From [...])
• Develop Your Own Personal Financial Planning Skills – Step 1 of 10 Financial Planning Steps in the Right Direction (You are completely responsible for your financial and investment success or failure. Delegating investment decisions to industry advisers largely on naive faith and hope without adequate personal knowledge, attention, and control can be very risky to your personal and family welfare. The only practical solution is for you to increase your personal investment knowledge and [...])
• Do Not Get Fooled by Superior Historical Investment Performance ( Evaluate the historical investment performance of mutual funds and ETFs, BUT ONLY AFTER using other screening criteria Choosing only from among mutual funds and ETFs that have performed very well in the past can lead to significant selection mistakes and inferior personal portfolio returns Previous superior or average fund performance simply does not predict similar fund performance [...])
• Carnival of Financial Planning – January 10 2008 Edition (Welcome to the January 10, 2008 edition of the Carnival of Financial Planning. The Carnival of Financial Planning takes a long-term view of personal financial planning for individuals and families. We focus on efficient and sustainable personal financial planning practices that can lead to lifetime financial security. This edition is arranged by subject heading, so that [...])
• The most effective strategy to increase your mutual fund and ETF investment returns ( What is the most effective strategy you have to increase your long-term mutual fund and ETF investment returns? Just reduce your investment fees to rock bottom and buy directly to eliminate all sales loads. This strategy is both simple and entirely within your control. You do not have to be smarter than all those other smart [...])
• The Never Do List – Avoid Financial Advisor Frauds and Scams ( Part 2 of the The Never-Do List - 22 Good Ways to Avoid Financial Advisor and Investment Counselor Frauds and Scams This article discusses things that you should “never do” with a financial planner or investment advisor, and it covers fees, payments, and proprietary investments. You should never do certain things with a financial planning or investment [...])
• Set a Minimum Portfolio Size Threshold for Mutual Funds and ETFs ( Choose mutual funds and ETFs with a minimum economical portfolio size If you are going to invest in actively managed funds, then you should want them to have a sufficiently large asset base to fund the necessary research. If an active fund is too small, then fund management quality can suffer or fees could grow. Index funds [...])
• Benefits of Traditional IRA Contributions for Renters ( Introduction In a series of articles, The Skilled Investor compares different lifetime financial planning projections for Fran and Fred Frugal to illustrate the relative value of adopting different financial planning strategies. Fran and Fred, both age 30, are a married working couple with $100,000 in combined annual earned income. (See the "Fran and Fred's Baseline Lifetime [...])
• Set your personal savings and other financial goals – Step 2 of 10 Financial Planning Steps in the Right Direction (CLICK HERE TO READ THE SKILLED INVESTOR's OTHER ARTICLES ABOUT THESE "10 FINANCIAL PLANNING STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION." The single most significant financial lever that individuals control directly is their management of personal expenditures. The second is their lifetime effort to obtain sufficient income. Most people simply do not save enough of their current income [...])
• 2006 and 2007 Personal Income Tax Rates for the 50 States and DC ( 2006 and 2007 personal income tax rates for the 50 states and D.C. The Skilled Investor has made available for downloading a spreadsheet that contains graduated personal income tax rates and other personal income tax rate information for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. If you want to know about specific U.S. state personal graduated [...])
• Roth IRA Contributions Versus Traditional IRA Contributions for Renters ( Introduction: Roth IRA Contributions versus Traditional IRA Contributions for Renters In a series of articles, The Skilled Investor compares different lifetime financial planning projections for Fran and Fred Frugal to illustrate the relative value of adopting different financial planning strategies. Fran and Fred, both ages 30, are a married working couple with $100,000 in combined annual [...])
• Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund (VGTSX) lands a +9 Fund Authority Score (The Vanguard Total International Stock Index mutual fund is a low cost alternative for broad, passive index investing internationally. This fund is a composite of three other Vanguard international funds: the Vanguard European Stock Index Fund (55.7%), the Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund (24.1%), and the Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund (20.2%). The percentages [...])