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Hello fellow FIREers: I've grown increasingly ready to leave the corporate world and have been thinking more and more about an idea I came up with a few years ago. I thought I'd throw this out there to you all to see if I could solicit some ideas. Basically I'd like to take the concepts that...

I currently have 23% of my portfolio in bonds. That 23% is divided between govt bonds and a mix of high/low grade corporate bonds. I hold most of these in tax sheltered accounts. My question is this.... I have recently seen some 3yr and 5yr CDs paying 6%, and I'm really tempted to buy some of...

Now that I am finally done with grad school, I thought it might be fun to find a local investment club. Does anyone know of a national investing group that has local chapers? So far, I have found betterinvesting.org and aaii.org. I'm definitely not looking for a group of Beardstown ladies or...

I posted this question over on fatwallet this morning, but haven't gotten any responses. I thought you guys might have some ideas. I was talking with a friend this weekend who works for a small church (which is a tax exempt organization). They received a multi-million dollar gift several years...

Hi... Quick question for all you bond aficionados. What happened to the bond market in March of this year? Every bond fund that I look at took a 10-20% hit in March. Did Greenspan make an announcement that I am not remembering?

Hi Folks, I have been doing some reallocation of my portfolio this year, trying to diversify what was a portfolio of about 80% domestic stock. One thing I have been thinking about is picking up a closed-end bond fund selling at a bit of a discount. The one I am looking at happens to be a muni...