I’ve spent a lot of time in the past week working with the Morningstar Premium Fund Screener, a tool used to search for mutual funds based on filtering criteria. Think of a screener as both a search engine and a pair of blinders. Not only will it help you discover new funds but it will also keep...

Just wanted to let you know that this week's carnivals are up. Read and Enjoy! Carnival of Investing at Free Money Finance Carnival of Personal Finance at AllThingsFinancial

In my last article, I discussed starting my portfolio, and a strategy for allocating assets efficiently while keeping the number of accounts and fees manageable. As I stated in that article I think it's very important for those of us who want to eventually become more involved with individual stock...

A week or so ago I wrote an article about the Money Market. As I mentioned then I'll be in an out of it for awhile. After looking back at that article I've realized that even though I posted something, it wasn't of any value, and was confusing at best. Rather than edit the original article and...

As part of my forthcoming portfolio strategy, I was trying to find information on the best S&P 500 Index funds. As you may or may not be aware, Vanguard created the first S&P 500 index fund in the 1970's. An S&P 500 index fund aims at tracking the performance of the S&P 500, regarded as one of the...

I woke up this morning wanting to answer one question more than any other. Why is the yield on a 2-year bond (4.37%) higher than the 10-year yield of 4.35%? [1] After some research, I have to admit I'm still a little lost. Understanding how our economy runs is not my strong suit (you'd be better...

If you have less than $50,000 to invest in securities you kinda get screwed. All of us here at InvestorGeeks are just starting out, in our Mid-20s and have less than $50k in investments. Now I love to learn about investing, but I’m nobody’s fool, and so I want to build a foundation of safe...

I've become very interested recently in fellow investment blogger Phil Town's site, and so I've been reading it from start to finish. After reading much of his site, I've come to enjoy his style of writing and investing. Ever the skeptic though, I wanted to make sure he's not just some shill on the...

So. I've been out of it for awhile, but I'm back now, and I'll be making appearances here as I can. At the moment I have little or no free time, between work and planning my upcoming wedding. Which reminds me I still need a guest list. So without any further non-sense let's get into this, and I'll...

Just wanted to make everyone aware that TT over at Retire at 30 has started a Carnival of Investing. For those unaware, blog carnivals are a group of blogs that get together and each week one of the members summarizes the week's best posts for readers. There's more information about this carnival...