Carnival of Investing - Issue #1

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the first-ever Carnival of Investing. We had some great submissions from across the blogosphere offering advice and insight into a wide breadth of investing topics. The purpose of this carnival is to gather the best the web has to offer on investing and to hopefully expose you to some bloggers you didn't already know about. Without further ado, let the carnival begin:


We had 4 entries about getting started in investing:

• Abnormal Returns writes about why "I don't know" are Three powerful Words for any investor, especially beginners.
• All Things Financial asks the question: What the heck is Asset Allocation?
• Free Money Finance offers this tip for Stress Free Investing (part 1 of 4) - Think Long Term. He references this article by Kiplinger's.
• Retire at 30 (aka me) lists resources where you can get learn the basics of investing at no cost in A Free Investing Education.

Asset Allocation:

• Investing Guide's Loi Tran discusses the Standard deviations of different asset classes.
• All Things Financial asks the question: What the heck is Asset Allocation?

Index Funds:

• Dan Melson atSearchlight Crusade argues in Debunking the Fallacy of Index Funds that Index Funds aren't as fabulous as their backers would have you believe.
• Trader Mike on the other hand argues that you can Beat the S&P 500 by Investing in the S&P 500 by investing in an equally weighted option instead of the regular market weighted index.

Bonds:

• Jonathan at My Money Blog discusses how he has created a 4 week T-Bill Ladder for his emergency fund, effectively getting him a 4.5% APY.
• Jeffery Strain at Personal Financial Advice discusses why now might not be the best time to purchase I-Bonds.

Decisions:

• Early Riser ponders what to do with a pile of cash he is sitting on after exercising his employee stock options. He weights Municipal Bonds vs. Working Interest in an oil or gas well.

Economic Indicators:

• Tom Hanna gives us a list of the economic indicators being released this week.

In terms of Levity:

• TripleWitchingFriday (not sure what that means) brings us what are alleged to be cameraphone pictures of the Melee that broke out after a typo on a trade lost Mizuho $335 Million. Somehow, the last frame makes me think these might be false... but humorous none the less.

Thanks to everyone who submitted articles for the inaugural edition. Next week will be hosted by AllThingsFinancial. You can find the submit form here and guidelines are always available here.