Carnival of Financial Planning - March 29 2008 Edition

Welcome to the March 29, 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 you can browse efficiently.

Enjoy!

The Skilled Investor

Budgeting

Bryce presents Working Budget posted at Save and Conquer, saying, “In these uncertain economic times it is important to have a good understanding of where your money goes and to have a budget.”

poetloverrebelspy presents Baring My Budget: Malta « Less Than a Shoestring posted at Less Than a Shoestring, saying, “A three-night vacation to Malta cost me just 50 euros, including flights. Find out how to travel for less in this post.”

Estate Planning

Lin Burress presents Taking Care of Aging Parents as a Family posted at Telling It Like It Is.

Rio Rivas presents 5 Easy Steps to Improve your estate planning posted at Get Financially Fit!, saying, “essentials to make your estate plan current”

Financial Planning

Charles H. Green presents Great Moments in Self-Regulation: Financial Planners and CFP Board posted at Trust Matters, saying, “Financial planners self regulate. But when they won’t even tell you what they’ve done about a member who was convicted in court, does that self-regulation matter?”

KCLau presents Financial Security: How you feel it? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Article on acquiring financial security and how to increase or protect finances.”

Enoch Ko presents Why do you want to become wealthy? posted at Enoch Ko’s Blog, saying, “Understanding “why” you want to become wealthy is an important first step to becoming wealthy.”

Barb A. Ryan presents Your Family Financial Planning posted at Pasadena Financial Planner.

The Investor presents Four quick sanity checks to stop the credit crisis killing your finances posted at Monevator.com, saying, “The economic news does not look good. But rather than putting on The Smiths, pouring myself a large gin and tonic, and turning to Sylvia Plath, I thought it’d be more useful to assemble a checklist for anyone looking to survive the credit crunch.”

Financing a Home

Bret Frohlich presents Top 10 Reasons to Buy a House posted at Bret Frohlich.com, saying, “If you think it’s expensive to buy a house, consider the alternative, which is renting indefinitely. Now is a great time to buy your first home and here are the Top 10 reasons you should do it soon.”

Alex M presents Here You May Compare House Short-term And long-term Rent posted at Real estate: where? how much?.

Robert Phillips presents Negotiation Tactics for Dealing with Home Sellers posted at REAL ESTATE INVESTING.

Investing

Aussie Investor presents Stock Market Investing For Beginners: Beginner Stock Market Investing Using Return On Equity posted at Stock Market Investing For Beginners, saying, “Beginners to stock market investing need to undertand return on equity ratios. Consider it the companion to value investing ratios like price to earnings. But unlike P/E ratios, return on equity can be used to uncover stocks which have top quality businesses behind them.”

Frank Vertin presents Buy an S&P 500 Index Fund with Low Costs posted at NO LOAD INDEX FUND.

Praveen presents My Simple Trading System: Scripts for Compounding Interest posted at My Simple Trading System.

Larry Russell presents 7 Ways to Pick the Best Noload Mutual Funds and ETFs posted at Best No Load Funds.

Managing Debt

Lisa Spinelli presents Credit Card Companies- Falcons Searching for Prey | Greener Pastures: Personal Finance posted at Greener Pastures: Personal Finance, saying, “They got me. And there’s nothing I can do about it. I read the fine print, but not the implied fine print….”

Retirement Planning

Jacob presents Choosing a retirement plan for extremely early retirement posted at Early Retirement Extreme, saying, “This post describes how I use tax deductions and retirement plans to minimize taxes in a high income, low spending, that is, high savings situation.”

Savings

WBL presents 10 Tips On How To Negotiate posted at Wealth Building Lessons, saying, “Save your money by learning how to negotiate.”

Dividends4Life presents Do you Have The Frugal Gene posted at Dividends4Life, saying, “‘ve noticed that many people have to work at being frugal. On the surface, this struck me as odd since I am naturally frugal (my wife says cheap). Sometimes I have to remind myself it may be me that has the defective “frugal” gene.”

Richard M. Rothschild presents The Best Mutual Funds Have NO Sales Loads and NO 12b-1 Fees posted at Best No Load Funds.

Miscellaneous

Dorian Wales presents The Personal Financier: How to Make Sure this is your Dream Home: 7 Practical Tips posted at Personal Financier.

Dax Desai presents Buying a Foreclosure Property posted at Dax Desai, saying, “My Foreclosure Buying Experience as well as a FAQ: The Guide to a Successful Foreclosure Offer”

FMF presents My Take on Robert Kiyosaki and His New Book posted at Free Money Finance, saying, “Everything RK writes isn’t crap.”

Louise Manning presents Setting objectives posted at The Human Imprint.

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