Stock Picks Update – H1 2010

July 4th, 2010 by 1stmilliondollar No comments »

We have just passed the first half of 2010. Yeah, time flies so fast.

It’s time to update our stock picks. So far, we are behind S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index. It’s been proven that it’s not easy to beat the index.

  • ASIA: –28.87%
  • CAGC: –23.12%
  • ITC: +0.5%
  • PEGA: –8.68%
  • Total: –15.04%

Here is the return of our benchmark:

  • S&P 500: –8.30%
  • Nasdaq: –7.82%

There have been also a stock picks competition among Canadian bloggers. Here is the result for first half of 2010.

Just for Fun – Amazing Animated Optical Illusions

July 4th, 2010 by 1stmilliondollar No comments »

It’s Sunday… it means it’s time for “Just for Fun”. Every Sunday, we publish a posting not related to finance or investment. Once again, apology for lack of update recently. We have been very busy looking for a house in the last couple of weeks.

Our “Just for Fun” this week is an amazing animated optical illusions. It is done only using pen and paper. No high technology is involved here.

Week in Review – June 24 – July 3

July 3rd, 2010 by 1stmilliondollar 2 comments »

First of all, apology for not updating our blog regularly. We have been very busy looking for a house in the last couple of weeks. We have viewed about 15 houses or so. Although we have not put an offer yet, but we are getting very close. Hopefully, we can put an offer soon.

Every weekend, we write a posting that summarizes interesting things happening in the blogosphere. It’s called “Week in Review” section. Here is the list of what’s happening this week. Sorry that we missed last week’s “Week in Review” because we went out of country.

Vanguard released a tutorial video about 5 lessons every investors should know. This one is actually from the previous week, but we included here because it is very interesting.

Invest with an Edge discussed one of the important aspects of investing, i.e. asset allocation. How should we allocate our asset.

Million Dollar Journey had a list of formulas that every landlord should know. Do you know capitalization rate, cash on cash return and return on investment?

The Intelligent Investor had suggestion on how to build fixed income portfolio with ETFs. It might be a good idea to have a significant amount of fixed income in our portfolio these days because the stock market is predicted to go lower.

The Financial Blogger were asking whether 55 years old is too late for retirement planning?

WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com started an experiment, called WikiLoonie, an Wiki experiment for Canadian investors.

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