indexfundfan @ indextown

Tfb’s recent post “A Business That Punishes Its Largest Customers” prompted me to write this post to relate my experience with a magazine subscription. I have been a subscriber of PC World for a few years. It came up for renewal last month but I didn’t renew it immediately because I thought the renewal price [...]

Over the weekend, I spent some time to upgrade the hard disk drive in my notebook computer to one with a larger capacity. This hard disk is the system disk, containing the Windows XP operating system installation. In previous upgrades that involved the system disk, I would do a complete new installation of the operating [...]

After five months of negative or zero returns, the equity markets rebounded in April. My portfolio of 70% equity / 30% fixed income gained 4.61%, ahead of the target benchmark’s 4.01%. With this gain, the portfolio is up 0.69% year-to-date. (The target benchmark is a 50:50 split between the Vanguard LifeStrategy Moderate Growth fund and [...]