Kevin On Investing

This is a quick reminder to those of you with CDs to monitor your CD maturity dates. I have an IRA CD maturing at a credit union in mid-May...

Toward the end of the last post in this series, Bond Basics: Part 6 , we saw that the change in the price of a bond, for a given change in ...

In Part 5 of this series on bond basics, I derived the formula to calculate the price of a one-year bond in terms of its yield. I started b...

Much of the discussion in this series on bond basics has been about the inverse relationship between bond yield and bond price: when one go...

I had planned to start digging into the mathematical formula that relates bond price and bond yield in this post, but first I want to discu...

In Part 2 of this series on bond basics I explained the relationship between bond price and bond yield: when one goes up, the other goes d...

In Part 1 of this series I described how a bond is basically a loan, or more precisely, the contract defining the terms of a loan, where y...

One of Warren Buffett's famous maxims is, "Never invest in a business you cannot understand." I would expand on this to say t...

In Part 1 of this series on calcluating required retirement savings rates, I stated this assumption: The remainder of your retirement li...

In the prior posts in this series I outlined a method for estimating how much you should be saving for retirement , discussed how to estima...

In Part 1 of this series I outlined a method for estimating how much you need to save to have a good shot at a financially secure retireme...

In Part 1 of this series I outlined how to estimate the savings rate required to ensure a financially secure retirement. The required savi...

In one of my early blog posts , written in December 2009 for recent college graduates , I wrote, " You must manage your spending so th...

Rates on several 5-year CDs I've been monitoring have fallen in recent weeks, but good CD ( Certificate of Deposit ) deals still are av...

You probably heard the news about the Brexit vote  results on Friday, June 24, in which a majority of United Kingdom voters voted to leave ...

Only a few days after I published a blog post on how to give advance instructions to Ally Bank to not renew a CD ( Advance Request to Not R...

If you are an email subscriber and tried to read the last blog post in email, you may have noticed that it was garbled. If so, this is beca...

As a follow up to my post about what to do with maturing CDs , I wanted to share that you can request in advance that your CDs at Ally Ba...

In the first two posts in this series, I compared the 5-year return of a 5-year direct CD to a 5-year Treasury security, and provided a fai...

In my previous blog post,  CD 5-Year Report Card: Part 1 , I compared the 5-year annualized return of a CD I bought about five years ago to...