Parchayi.com – Personal Finance Simplified

I have read/heard several bad reviews of investing based on Jim Cramer’s recommendations in Mad Money. This reminded me of Seinfeld and following Kramer’s advice – which he had plenty to offer. Anyway, so I was hunting for sites that follow Cramer’s picks and came across this – Cramerwatch.org – Cramer vs. Leonard [...]

I saw the movie ‘Thank You For Smoking’ and realized that ATF = Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms companies – the root of all evil – are possibly good investments to consider. Personally, I wouldn’t invest in Tobacco and Firearms companies directly (can’t really do much about the holdings of my funds) but Alcohol [...]

A friend of mine who graduated with me was refused an interview at a DC company because his GPA was less than 3.5 and he used the term ‘GPA whore’ for the company. Thus leads to the birth of my new term – ‘Credit Score Whoring’ TM (CSW) – trying to artificially raise your FICO [...]

A google search for ‘financial blog’ got me thousands of blogs, a lot of which tell one persons story of how they will reach their financial goals (reaching a target net worth, getting out of debt etc.). Some of these people actually list out all their holdings in all their accounts (e.g. Neville’s Financial Blog, [...]

Yahoo Inc. launched a new personal finance portal today as a part of Yahoo! Finance. Yahoo has gotten into the bad habit of launching new interfaces as part of old sites that are not completely integrated. The personal finance portal is much better in that respect as compared to the half-assed effort by Yahoo! Movies [...]

A few days ago, I opened a position in INP (Barclays Bank Zero Cpn ETN(ITR) – see my previous post on INP) increasing Parchayi and my investment in India to 16% of our total investments.
A breakdown of our portfolio (including all stocks and mutual funds) shows 98% investment in stocks, 2% in bonds (via some [...]

If you have seen the ads for Real California Cheese, you know what I am talking about. The first thing that came to my mind after hearing about freezing temperatures and ruined crops in CA is unhappy cows and I had to post about it even though this doesn’t have much to with personal finance, [...]

A recent newsgroup post that I found led me to this businessweek article – The Best E-Broker For You. Their slideshow compares several online brokerages, some of which I didn’t know existed. Here are two more cheap options other than SoGo that I mentioned in the previous post:
Firsttrade – $6.95 per trade market and limit
TradeKing [...]

I just saw an ad for these guys on this blog and I had to check them out – !
Now Scottrade is being given a run for its money and if SoGo succeeds, hopefully we will see all around fee slashing and maybe, just maybe the days of free trading will be back.

Over at Yahoo Finance today, I found this article – Negotiate a Lower Credit-Card Rate from the Wall Street Journal. The artice goes on to say that credit card companies will lower your interest rate if you ask for a lower rate. Most of my credit cards are low fixed rate cards, plus I haven’t [...]