by Greg Turnquist | May 2, 2012 | finance, real estate
Just today I received notice my company would deposit $75 into my bank account within five working days. This was compensation for five t-shirts I bought for the Nashville Java Users Group when we attended the DevNexus conference back in March. I basically asked...
by Greg Turnquist | Apr 18, 2012 | finance
As I continue on my path of rebalancing my portfolio, I am amazed at the number of people I need to consult to put together my grand plan just right. For example, I now have my EIUL established. I have a rock solid agent that helped me put it together, and whom I know...
by Greg Turnquist | Apr 8, 2012 | eiul, finance, scala
Over the past couple of years, I have been innately fascinated by the emergence of scala. Discovering it’s incredible power of type inference, a very extensive collections API, pattern matching, and many other things have been very alluring.Recently, I had a...
by Greg Turnquist | Apr 5, 2012 | eiul, finance
I recently wrote my first installment about rebalancing my portfolio. In it, I discussed some of the cons involved with investing in financial instruments that suffer losses. Essentially, if your account loses 20%, you must gain 25% to overcome that. The bigger the...
by Greg Turnquist | Mar 26, 2012 | eiul, finance
I suppose you’re very familiar with hearing news like “The Dow is down 2.5% today,” or “The S&P is up 3%.” Mapping into basic mathematics, that would be -2.5% and +3%, relatively speaking.But why are these figures couched in...
by Greg Turnquist | Mar 12, 2012 | eiul, finance
I’ve recently started a plan to rebalance my portfolio. The first leg is to stop investing in my 401k, and instead route that money into an overfunded Equity Indexed Life Insurance policy (EIUL). More on exactly what that is in a moment. Mutual funds won’t...
