Pin Money Club

“Oops, I did it again”
 I was recently talking with a married friend whose husband works for a well-known technology company. As I told her about Pin Money Club, she was quick to assure me that she and her husband were financially set because they had most of their savings tied up in his employer’s stock -both in their 401(k) plan and […]

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Google, redux…
..A lot of my friends and family have asked me if there is now a buying opportunity in Google’s stock. That’s because Google is now trading ($526 as of this posting) well below the high it reached of over $700 late last year. Again, I don’t make specific investment recommendations, but I do have […]

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Are you the meat in your own financial club sandwich?
I am a card-carrying member of the sandwich generation. The “sandwich” generation is a term that was coined to refer to those Americans who are caught between competing and often overwhelming financial needs such as saving for retirement, funding college educations, and planning for long-term care […]

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In Jonathan Clement’s Wall Street Journal column yesterday he describes research studies (supported by this author’s own anecdotal evidence) that show women invest more conservatively and turn over their investments less frequently. In one sweeping study, researchers show that men’s overconfidence (surprise, surprise) hurts their stock performance by 2.65% each year, while women only hurt their result […]

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I become a grownup…
In many ways, I am the poster child for Pin Money Club; I just made my first will after a mere 48 years on this earth. But I’m in good company, over half of all adult Americans also do not have a will. I suspect that the idea of our own mortality […]

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