• Lamenting the Market Plunge? Instead, Learn from Experience
• Understanding Your Investment Strategies
• Should you save for retirement or your kids' college education?
• It’s About Time: Corporate Responsibility Law Finally Makes Lawyers More Accountable
• The Internet and Its Impact on Investing in Collectibles
• A Gift For Giving
• Honey, I Shrank Our Investments -- Now What?

Lamenting the Market Plunge? Instead, Learn from Experience - Jonathan Clements
The longer the market turmoil drags on, the more nonsense you hear. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index has fallen more than 40% from its March 2000 peak. But folks aren't talking about the advantages presented by this historic market plunge. Instead, much of the chatter is about strategies that will limit further damage.
http://sunday.wsj.com/articles/SB1028986278116264995.html

Understanding Your Investment Strategies - Frank Fernandez
Investing without a strategy is like traveling without a map. It can be exhilarating, especially if you have time to spare. You may even end up where you’d hoped to be. But it’s more likely that you’ll find yourself somewhere entirely different
http://www.siainvestor.org/trips/invstrat/intro.htm

Should you save for retirement or your kids' college education? - Diane Harris
If you are among the millions of parents torn between saving for your children's college education and your own retirement, take note: almost unanimously, financial advisers urge you to put retirement first.
http://www.mygeneration.org/departments/2002/business/0905_a.html

It’s About Time: Corporate Responsibility Law Finally Makes Lawyers More Accountable
CEOs, accountants, bankers, analysts, and even consultants have suffered during the recent spate of corporate scandals, lawyers so far have escaped blame, let alone indictment. But that may change...
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?catid=11&articleid=604&homepage=yes

The Internet and Its Impact on Investing in Collectibles
There are many positive reasons to invest in art and other collectibles, but in the past investors have faced high transaction costs. The Internet, however, has introduced the possibility of reducing these costs for many collectibles, and this change may migrate even to very expensive areas.
http://www.aaii.com/promo/20020812/mop.shtml

A Gift For Giving - Reshma Memon Yaqub
It's a big world of charity out there awaiting your year-end, tax-deductible contributions-perhaps too big. The IRS recognizes more than 819,000 charities, with 45,000 new ones added in just the past year alone. How to choose? Which of the noble-seeming goals are indeed worthwhile, and which charities work toward them with the skill, innovation, effectiveness, and strategic insight that you'd expect from a for-profit company you would consider investing in or working for? Which charities, in short, are deserving of your support?
http://www.worth.com/content_articles/display/articles.cfm?id=%298%2F%2A%21GJ%5F%2B%21T3%2C%0A

Honey, I Shrank Our Investments -- Now What? - By Ginita Wall CPA, CFP
Uh oh, the stock market slid again. So what else is new? Even patient optimists have gotten fed up with the market, which is exactly why it's going down. http://www.wife.org/columnists/wall/wall.006.htm

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