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Avoid These Top 5 Financial Mistakes for Smart Money Management in 2023

No one likes making mistakes, especially when they can be costly. I know that you likely share my perfectionist tendencies and are often averse to taking risks. As physicians, we are trained to carefully consider the risk-benefit ratio before making any decision because we know the consequences of making a costly mistake. While mistakes are inevitable in some aspects of our lives, we must be conscious of and deliberate in avoiding financial mistakes, as they can be detrimental to our financial well-being, and they can have significant consequences.

As an anesthesiologist, I understand the importance of minimizing mistakes, and I’ll

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Journal Club 04-21-23 – Passive Income MD

Here’s Journal Club 04-21-23! Every week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After filtering through the articles on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this week. Be safe and stay well!


  • Target date funds are often viewed as an attractive option by many investors mainly for their simplicity and ease of investing. Are you looking to add these to your retirement portfolio? The Physician on FIRE shares key pointers for you to consider before investing in them in the article – 7 Reasons I Don’t Use Target Date Funds. Check it out.
  • As busy professionals, it’s
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How expensive are Center County homes? Realtors say the median price grew yet again in March

The median home sale price in Center County in March was more than 11% higher than it was the year before, according to data recently published by the county realtors’ association.

The median sale price last month was approximately $345,000, checking in above last March’s median price of roughly $310,000. That’s an increase of about 11.3%, according to the Center County Association of Realtors’ residential market trend report for March.

Meanwhile, national real estate site Redfin reported a median home sale price of roughly $347,600 for Center County in March. Here is how that stacks up against the rest of

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Mortgage Rate Forecast For April 2023

Mortgage rates moved down sharply in March, a welcome trend for homebuyers hoping to make a deal during the spring selling season. Will rates continue the downward trend in April?

Housing analysts expect mortgage rates to continue to bounce around this month. While the consensus calls for rates to ease below 6 percent later this year, that forecast assumes the Federal Reserve will continue to successfully tame inflation, and that the remarkably resilient US economy will, finally, slow down.

“Forecasting mortgage rates in the best of times is tricky,” says Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist at Bright MLS, a multiple listing

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The Wall Street Journal tells us to weep for the plight of the very, very rich

Bryan Chan 805–653–7527 –– – Realtors Mauricio Umansky, right, and Lea Jett tour the $19.7–million home at 80 Beverly Park in the gated community of Beverly Park .  They are standing in the backyard.

Realtors Mauricio Umansky, right, and Lea Jett in the yards of a $19.7–million home in Beverly Park. Do you feel sorry for their lifestyle? (Los Angeles Times)

Coverage of the richest Americans in publications aimed at their tax bracket tend to fall into two genres.

One is claiming stories that income well into six figures doesn’t make them really “rich.” The other involves hand-wringing and whining about their (purportedly) ruinous tax bills.

An editorial last week in the (of course) Wall Street Journal may stand permanently, or at least until the end of recorded time, as the Platonic ideal of

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My Stock Report Card for Jan – Jul 2018

My Stock Report Card for Jan – Jul 2018

US Stocks

SG Stocks

Total Dividend Collected between Jan – Jul 2018 : SGD$16,068

Income distribution in June and July came from Frasers Hospitality, Aimsamp Cap Reit, UOB, Mapletree Industrial Trust, Mapletree Logistic Trust, OCBC, NikkoAM STC Asia Reit, PingAn Insurance, Bank of America, Tencent, Intel, IBM, Microsoft.

Total Profit/Loss from Sales of Stock between Jan – Jul 2018: SGD 6690.18 ( Structured Note Knock Out, Intel, Tesla btw Jun – Jul ).

Is everyone enjoying the roller coaster ride in the market? I’m not :-p. Every stock that I owned

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My Stock Report Card for Jan – Mar 2019

My Stock Report Card for Jan – Mar 2019

US Stocks

SG Stocks

Total Passive Income Collected Between Jan – Mar 2019 : SGD 19,392 ( 4,924 from Dividend, 14,467.38 from Structured Notes)

Total Profit / Loss from Sales of Stocks between Jan – Mar 2019 : -$812 (M1)

Stocks added between Jan – Mar 2019 : None

It has been a roller coaster 4 months. We are back at the all time high range. I am again in this to sell or not to sell mode. Lucky for me, the structured note that I bought last year managed to