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

• Personal Financial Advice from Blogs this Week – January 2 2009 ( Personal Finance Blog Articles of the Week Carnival of Financial Planning - January 3 2009 Edition Welcome to the January 3, 2009 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 [...])
• Vantagepoint 500 Stock Index mutual fund Class II Shares (VPSKX) rate a +9 Fund Authority Score (Here is some really good news for you. The Skilled Investor has published an article about lower cost S&P 500 index mutual funds that you can read, entitled: Low Cost S&P 500 Index Mutual Funds. The Standard & Poors 500 stock index is the most common equity index fund benchmark in the U.S. The S [...])
• Commodity Futures in Your Investment Portfolio ( Commodity futures in your investment portfolio - Is there really any future for individual investors? The Skilled Investor's previous article, "Be wary of the new investment asset classes," voiced skepticism about many supposedly new asset classes. This article delves into the financial science behind this skepticism, as it relates to one of these supposedly new asset [...])
• How unstable have stock market returns been over time? ( Common stock equity market returns have varied widely in the past. The common stock equity risk premium has averaged about 4.1% from 1872 to 2000. The equity risk premium is the equity market return less the risk free rate of return. The risk free rate of return includes both the inflation rate and the risk free [...])
• Publish your blog news articles on traditional media center and newspaper websites ( An easy way to publish and syndicate your best news articles on some of the big news and media websites Web content is more plentiful that grains of sand on the beach. However, really good and newsworthy web content is much more scarce. The cyberspace audience is discerning, but it takes time to attract them, and [...])
• Build Investment Asset Buffers to Protect Yourself from Market Volatility ( Build Investment Asset Buffers to Protect Yourself from Market Volatility You may be just as nervous as the next person is about investment risk. However, the coverage of your future expenses by your accumulated assets will determine whether you can actually manage, when risk really happens. A previous article, "The Solution - ONLY follow financial strategies that [...])
• Diversify fully within asset classes – Step 4 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." Diversification is genuinely an investment “free lunch,” and it is a key contributor to improved investment risk management. Diversification has become an axiom of personal investing, because the specific risks of businesses and other investment entities can be [...])
• American Funds – Income Fund of America – Class A Shares (AMECX) rate a +2 Fund Authority Score (Fund Authority Scores rate mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the most important economic factors that influence individual investors' net long term diversified investment fund performance. The Skilled Investor developed the Fund Authority Score system to provide individual investors with concise and objective summaries of mutual funds and ETFs for comparisons within investment [...])
• Screening Mutual Funds On-Line with Morningstar.com ( Screening mutual funds on-line with Morningstar.com Summary: In this article, The Skilled Investor discusses how to screen mutual funds on-line using our seven scientifically based mutual fund screening criteria. This article focuses on using the free mutual fund screener and database available at Morningstar.com. In a previous article, The Skilled Investor has discussed minimum requirements [...])
• Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund – Select Shares (SWPIX) achieve a +8 Fund Authority Score (Fund Authority Scores rate mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the most important economic factors that influence individual investors' net long term diversified investment fund performance. The Skilled Investor developed the Fund Authority Score system to provide individual investors with concise, objective, and realistic summaries of mutual funds and ETFs for comparisons within [...])
• Always Completely Diversify Your Investment Portfolio ( Complete portfolio diversification is always a better idea. On average, the securities markets will not pay you to hold any skewed subset of the overall market. Doing so is just a gamble that may or may not pay off. You should not expect to be paid any more for the added risk and anxiety. A previous article, [...])
• Lifetime Investment Assets of Renters with Reduced Investment Costs ( Lifetime investment assets of renters through investment cost improvements Improving on Fran and Fred's lifetime financial plan through lower investment costs Fran and Fred Frugal, both age 30, are a married working couple with $100,000 in combined annual earned income. They want to understand how valuable different personal finance strategies could be to their lifetime finances and [...])