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Rolled Over Into a Vanguard IRA

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Photo Credit: Strevo Ok, so we finally mailed the paperwork to rollover my husband’s 401(k) into a Vanguard Roth IRA. The actual process took around total of 30 minutes. Sending out the paperwork? Over 2 weeks. Here’s how we did it: Organized [...]

July 2008: Progress Update

Photo Credit: ivanx Half the year has past I feel like I want to stray off my financial course. Being semi-responsible for a ‘long’ time is making want to take the money I sock away and just spend it. Has anybody else felt this way? Let me first review my goals for this year: Income: The goal is [...]

Rolling Over 401(k)s

Photo Credit: Zzzack We’re doing alright preparing for this move. I’m dead tired, but once this is done, I’ll be able to rest easy. Something that I’m keeping in the back of mind for now is the plan for our retirement funds. We both have 401(k)s with our employers. My 401(k) is considerably less than [...]

I enrolled in my company’s 401(k)

  Photo Credit: David Dennis I’m excited! My one year anniversary was a bit more than month ago, so I can enroll in my company’s 401(k) program. I’ve been bugging Human Resources to try and get my benefits. I wasn’t pushing for the health insurance since my husband’s plan is cheaper and has better coverage. When we did our [...]

What’s the Difference Between Loaded and No Load Funds?

Investing is a wonderful way to grow your money, but the terminology with it can scare some people. Just by taking 5 minutes, you can learn something. Today I’m going to look into loaded and no load mutual funds. Photo Credit: theLastMinute What is a loaded fund? It’s basically a mutual fund with an extra sales cost. If [...]