Archives for August 2005

What Cars do PF/Money Bloggers Drive?

Here we are, all trying to either retire comfortably or be filthy rich. But what are we rollin’ in now? I just bought a 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix. It’s got a somewhat peppy V6, and is a great highway cruiser. My wife drives a ’95 Nissan. I’m always lookin’ at other people’s cars. So what’s everyone else driving? In no particular order:

Michael rolls in a ’95 Accord & a ’95 Nissan pickup.
Hazzard has a ’97 Toyota Tacoma pickup for his ride.

Monty Loree cruises in his ’03 Cadillac CTS.
Kate and her husband propel themselves in a ’03 Honda Accord and a ’04 Ford F-150.
MM motors in a ’02 BMW 525i and a ’00 Toyota Camry.
Savvy Saver tours in a ’01 Honda Civic EX coupe.
Murray traded in his “German sports car” for a “cheaper Japanese import”.
Flexo has a ’04 Honda Civic LX grocery-getter.
B is jeepin’ in a Cherokee.

…there’s more, but Blogger really needs to add search functionality! I mean, come on, it’s owned by Google! Anyways, my apologies if I messed up your car type, it’s late and I was bored. I just spent 30 minutes looking up synonyms for driving. And not very well. Post a comment if I missed you!

What Cars do Money Bloggers Drive?

Here we are, all trying to either retire comfortably or be filthy rich. But what are we rollin’ in now? I just bought a 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix. It’s got a somewhat peppy V6, and is a great highway cruiser. My wife drives a ’95 Nissan. I’m always lookin’ at other people’s cars. So what’s everyone else driving? In no particular order:

Michael rolls in a ’95 Accord & a ’95 Nissan pickup.
Hazzard has a ’97 Toyota Tacoma pickup for his ride.

Monty Loree cruises in his ’03 Cadillac CTS.
Kate and her husband propel themselves in a ’03 Honda Accord and a ’04 Ford F-150.
Pfblog motors in a ’02 BMW 525i and a ’00 Toyota Camry.
Savvy Saver tours in a ’01 Honda Civic EX coupe.
Murray traded in his “German sports car” for a “cheaper Japanese import”.
Flexo has a ’04 Honda Civic LX grocery-getter.
B is jeepin’ in a Cherokee.

…there’s more, but Blogger really needs to add search functionality! I mean, come on, it’s owned by Google! Anyways, my apologies if I messed up your car type, it’s late and I was bored. I just spent 30 minutes looking up synonyms for driving. And not very well. Post a comment if I missed you!

Should I roll over my 401k? Part 2 – Maybe Rollover into Fidelity?

(Continued from Should I roll over my 401k? Part 1 – Stay put with old 401k?)

I just had a couple of very nice conversations with the customer service reps at Fidelity and Vanguard about rolling over my 401k into an IRA. I’ve always liked dealing with both these solid companies, they have short phone hold times even on their main lines (unlike E-Trade, which sucks), courteous people (again, unlike E-Trade), and they even speak intelligible English (unlike Dell)!

I cleared up some things with Fidelity first. I couple of commenters on my last post suggested simply rolling over my Fidelity 401k directly to a Fidelity IRA, so I explored that a bit. Here are my findings:
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Should I roll over my 401k? Part 1 – Stay put with old 401k?

So it’s time to decide whether I should keep my 401k money at the original manager Fidelity, or roll it over to join my IRAs at Vanguard. I have enough in there to be allowedto leave it indefinitely. I’m not considering any other options as I’ve already chosen Vanguard as my retirement broker. Here are the funds I have in my Fidelity 401k right now, with expense ratios (e.r.):

40% in S&P 500 Index Fund (like FSMKX), e.r.=0.10%
20% in Spartan Extended Market Index Fund (FSEMX), e.r.=0.10%
20% in Spartan International Index Fund (FSIIX), e.r.=0.10%
20% in PIMCO Total Return Admin Fund (PTRAX), e.r.=0.68%
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Carnival of Personal Finance #7 is up

This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at InCashFlowWeTrust. Check it out, lots of submissions this week, even I somehow managed to do it.