An important goal for me is to train my children (12 and 10 years old) about personal finances and investing. For some odd reason their eyes glaze over whenever I start talking about NPVs, DCFs, IRRs and calculating a compound annual growth rate using a logarithmic function in Excel (go figure!). It took a while, but I finally learned that they respond to stories. Given that, I have used stories to foster their interest in personal finance and investing.
Sat. Jan. 26, 2008
personal, process
Pre-Screening Dividend Stocks – Epilogue *
In Wednesday’s article “Pre-Screening Dividend Stocks – Part II”, I posted a link to [D4L-PreScreen.xls]. This was a cleaned up version of a tiny section of my two massive financial spreadsheets.
Sat. Jan. 19, 2008
personal
Investing In What’s Important *
It is no secret that I work too much and don’t spend as much time with my family as I would like. Several weeks ago I learned that my 12-year old daughter had been selected to represent her class at homecoming.
