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 personal [...]

Posted June 4, 2009 in Roundups by Madison | 1 Comment

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 the time [...]

Posted June 3, 2009 in Investing by Madison | 5 Comments

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 [...]

Posted June 1, 2009 in Insurance by Madison | 1 Comment