Investorial

You have to give credit where credit’s due! Marketwatch has been steadily impressing me with their adoption of the upcoming trends for publishing information on the web. They want their readers to digg their articles, or make them del.ici.ious. They’ve launched Marketwatch blogs with three of their most popular contributors, Herb Greenberg, Frank Barnako and Bambi Francisco at the forefront. But what’s new for Marketwatch?

If you’ve clicked the small image at the top of this article, you will see the Marketwatch’s new design launched since July 5th, 2006. Editor-in-chief David Callaway explains the site-wide changes in detail for Marketwatch readers. My personal opinion is that this long overdue change is for the better. (more…)

If you are a regular Investorial reader, you may already have notice the new layout design. I spent the whole day creating this design on my PC and finally felt it was ready to be ported to the site.

I was acutely aware that visitors using Internet Explorer 6 were having difficulties with the stylesheet I was using in the last design (shown in picture). I hope this version will remedy those issues. I really do like this design better. A little house cleaning was needed to throw away some unnecessary components. I will still be working on a few little tweaks over the next few days on the site. Please bear with any site issues while I finish the live re-design. (more…)

google-spreadsheet.thumbnail.jpg"/>Much thanks to JLP from AllFinancialMatters, for sending me an invite to try out Google Spreadsheets. I was interested to evaluate the web tool because many financial bloggers like to use, design and share spreadsheets. Google spreadsheets could be a great way to share such information! I looked around, tried a few features and even uploaded one of my own spreadsheets. After playing around for about 30 minutes, I decided to send Google a feedback. I thought I would share what I wrote: (more…)

I was worried when I checked MightBargainHunter around noon today, but felt relieved just now realizing that my submission to the 23rd edition of the Carnival of Investing came through last minute. I must have been blind to not see it mentioned this afternoon. Much thanks goes to MBH for hosting this week!

I must also admit that my submission, “The 20-Bagger That Got Away“, is not the usual flare you would find at Investorial. This is not a blog focused about my experiences and personal investing exploits. But when the shoe fits, you must wear it. I welcome the carnival visitors and hope you can stick around to find something that might interest you!

Welcome to the readers from the Carnival of Personal Finance!

2Million, the host for the 48th Carnival of Finance, was kind enough to accept my submission to the carnival. This was actually my first submission to any carnival. I won’t be submitting an article every week because I’d rather submit quality posts and stay on topic. But every once in a while, I feel a need to share!

For new readers to Investorial, this is a blog whose mission is about exposing media influences and discussing their effects on its audience. We’ll touch on media figures like Jim Cramer, investing manias, and not forgetting to have a few laughs along the way!

I’d like to invite you to stick around and check out what Investorial has to offer! Grab the RSS feed or subscribe to email updates! Stay tuned as I’m currently working on busting/explaining a very basic financial myth in the next few days!

Here’s wishing all the mother’s out there a very happy mother’s day! Special thoughts are also going out to my mum this day and every other day of the year. I have not blogged much about my personal life and how it related to my views on finance, but today is a great day to share with you how my mother influenced my financial perspectives.

My mother has been the epitome of frugality and financial sensibility. The first important thing she would advice is to start consistently saving for your future. She also understands that you cannot avoid risk, but should instead strive to learn about it so that you can manage risk. When I was young, (more…)

Of all that days that I receive an offer from CBS Marketwatch to buy Investorial, it had to be April 1st! I’m so happy! I can’t disclose the details of the deal as yet but suffice to say I’ll be selling out my soul from here onwards.

Why is CBS Marketwatch buying me? Because I made 2 glorious reviews of one of their star columnists Herb Greenberg here and here. Simple ain’t it?

Sorry Canadian Capitalist and Investing Intelligently! I’d say I’ll watch out for an opportunity to get you a deal as well, but I don’t want to. LOL

By the way, hope you are having a wonderful April Fool’s Day!

I haven’t gone off the deep end yet. Investorial is not a Blog about my own portfolio. I also don’t share the propensity to divulge my investment practices as other bloggers do. But I did enjoy reading The Dividend Guy and Investing Intelligently provide updates about their portfolio decisions.

The decision to not involve myself with posting portfolio updates is because the spirit of Investorial is to talk and discuss about media influences in the investment and financial arena. In my mind, it’s a conflict of interest to talk about my own investment practices.

However, I felt it was relatable to share with you that I have recently disposed of any seggregated funds in my portfolio. I used to have a small position in a seg fund that I bought at the beginning of my investing career. You can read my views about seg fund in this archived post.

This is neither an endorsement for or against seggregated funds, but a post about the fact that one shouldn’t jump into investments for the wrong reasons. I jumped into the situation while I was only starting to learn about investments, I was listening to friends and “advisors”. I was also less knowledgable and catch-phrases like “guarantee” were pleasing to a consumer like myself who only hears what they want to hear.

Arming myself with knowledge, I’m able to look back at my decisions and critique them. I chose to redeploy the invested capital and I’ve learnt to judge with a critical eye before leaping into action.