Archive for June, 2009


Loose Ends, Retirement, and More

Posted by Madison on June 4th, 2009

Each week I use the Thursday post to talk about personal finance tidbits that are interesting, but don’t necessarily need an entire article devoted to them. As you’ve noticed, it’s also where I post announcements and highlight personal finance articles around the web. Because most of the tidbits are about things going on in my [...]

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Readers Share Lending Club Returns

Posted by Madison on June 3rd, 2009

I recently asked How is your Lending Club Account Doing? after seeing my net annualized return on investment at 8.44%. I enjoyed reading readers’ responses about their portfolios at Lending Club and wanted to share them. It’s fun to see how everyone stacks up. What I find particularly interesting is that many readers are taking [...]

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Shopping Insurance and Landing at Allstate

Posted by Madison on June 1st, 2009

I mentioned that we switched our insurance to Allstate earlier this month. Since I used to work in the insurance industry, I actually didn’t shop our rates very often. Because of the state filings, I knew that we had some of the best coverage and premiums around. Everything changed when we decided to enter the [...]

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