2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

February 3, 2010

2009 Investment Performance Review (+34.31%)

Since we have been paying close attention to our investments via monthly reports on this blog, its pretty easy to do a quick analysis of our annual performance. These year end results are awesome - wish I could see this...
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February 10, 2010

January 2010 Net Worth Update (-$2,272)

Assets Dec-09 Jan-10 Change % Cash & Savings $ 16,327.90 $ 17,204.40 $ 876.50 5.37% Taxable Brokerage Accts $ 112,411.10 $ 109,096.94 $ (3,314.16) -2.95% Roth IRAs $ 49,835.89 $ 50,856.92 $ 1,021.03 2.05% Pre-tax Retirement Accts $ 194,639.68...
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February 15, 2010

Investment Performance January 2010 (-2.34%)

This is an ongoing monthly update on how our equity investments are performing. Please see this background on the investment tool I developed and how I am using it to track our performance against a benchmark to measure our progress...
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February 18, 2010

Focused on Debt Reduction

Things are pretty boring financially speaking for us these days. We are plugging along with our plans to pay down an additional portion of our debt load to offset our increased living expenses and decreased income from my wife staying...
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February 23, 2010

Withdraw Free Money From Upromise Account

Have a Upromise account? I found out its pretty easy to get the money out of your UPromise account without contributing it to a college fund. I signed up for one back in 2006 since its free and only requires...
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February 26, 2010

Thoughts on Improving Cash Flow

I spend a lot of idle time thinking about how we can get our personal finances back to the glory days of 2008 for us. Back when we didn't have a larger home, a baby, 2 incomes and all the...
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