Archive for August, 2006

Sogoinvest experience update

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

[This post continues from my earlier post on my Sogoinvest experience.] After having the Sogoinvest account opened for about one week, the following are my personal thoughts. Pluses The order fills seemed to be quite good. Out of the five trades I placed last week (all were limit orders), two came back with slightly better [...]

Are you clueless about your CLUE report?

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

A CLUE (Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange) report is the insurance equivalent of the credit history report. Information about your insurance history are collected by the firm ChoicePoint Asset Company and made available to insurance companies when you apply or renew your insurance, such as your auto insurance or homeowner insurance. This report could affect your [...]

The next wave of index investing (?)

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Prof. Jeremy Siegel, who is a Director of, and a Senior Strategy Adviser to, WisdomTree Investments, Inc., a company that develops fundamentally-weighted dividend indexes and products, argues in the article The Next Wave of Index Investing that while “capitalization-weighted indexes have been a great way to invest (in the past), increasing evidence suggests that capitalization-weighted [...]