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Without further ado, let’s continue on with the 8th Stage (we’re now in the 2nd Round of competition!) of the 2012 My Personal Finance Journey Tour de Personal Finance (to follow all of the action, click on the Tour de Personal Finance category link and scroll down to read all the posts involved in this subject).
An important update on prizes for the competition
As I mentioned in the introduction post for the 2012 Tour de PF, I have reserved the reader portion of my 10% monthly blog income give back event for both June and July as prize money to the Yellow Jersey winner and runner-up/second place podium finisher. The Yellow Jersey winner will also select a charity of their choice to receive the charity portion of the 10% monthly blog income give back.
At the time that I mentioned these prizes, I did not yet know the exact quantities that they would be. However, I now have everything calculated, and the prizes will be as follows:
- Prize to Yellow Jersey Winner – $75.00
- Amount that will be given to a charity chosen by the Yellow Jersey Winner – $123.05
- Prize to 2nd place podium finisher – $50.00
Going along with Tour de France cycling tradition, I’ve listed each competition within each stage as an “intermediate sprint” (one post versus another) along with the description provided by the blog author when the post was submitted.
Also, if applicable, I will give a brief description of the stage of the Tour de France that took place the same day as (or that has happened since the previous Stage of) the competition.
HOW TO VOTE
You can vote for the two articles (one from each intermediate sprint) you’d like to see proceed in the Tour by commenting in the comments section below and telling which are your favorites.
I’ve listed a keyword after each post title to make it easy to vote (as a made-up example, you can just comment: Sprint 1: Mutual; Sprint 2: 401k, etc.) Be sure to comment which one you like the best out of each set of two! Criteria for the best article is completely up to you, but you can use these factors as a guide: 1) post of your favorite blogger, 2) most interesting post, 3) most thought-provoking post, 4) most unique post, or 5) most actionable post.
Here are today’s competitions:
Voting will continue until July 11th for this Stage!
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How to Be a Conservative Investor (Investor): In a volatile stock market, people are always looking for ways to protect their money. Unfortunately, that often means getting too conservative and letting it sit in the bank earning little or no interest. Instead, I’ll show you how to be a true conservative investor and make real money, safely, in even a difficult economy.
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15 Ways to Grow and Protect Your Net Worth (Grow): We often talk about making more money, investing, saving, and reducing debt. What it all comes down to, really, is increasing our net worth. This post takes a holistic look at increasing net worth, with 15 ways we can do so.
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7 Financial Advisors I Would Like to Punch in the Face (Punch): There are plenty of financial advisors in my industry that give financial planning a bad name (Madoff anyone?), and unfortunately they’re everywhere. I’ve been in the business for almost 10 years, and I’ve had countless run-ins with these types of advisors and despite my laid back personality, I would like nothing more than to punch them in the face, seriously. Here are some financial advisor horror stories that other clients have shared with me, the lessons learned, and let’s just see if you would want to pull a Rocky Balboa on their face, too.
TOUR DE FRANCE DAILY RECAP
Today’s stage (Stage 9) in the Tour de France was a fairly long (41.5 km) individual time trial (ITT). Brittish rider, Bradley Wiggins, absolutely demolished the rest of the field to win the stage by a full minute and 43 seconds over now second place, Cadel Evans.
With this win, Wiggins extends his lead in the race to close to two minutes.
Unless Wiggins cracks in the mountains, I don’t see Cadel Evans being able to overcome him in the remainder of the race.
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