Personal Finance and Money Management

A reader that I’ll call Diane recently wrote in with a question about investing a windfall. She says:

I am getting some extra money — about $10k — and I have no idea what to do with it.

I am 57 years old and have no debt. I have about $9k in my company’s 401(k), and that is my only savings right now. I also purchased a house about three months ago.

The problem is that I have no knowledge on how to invest, but I do have a couple of people in my life with some understanding of investing.

Do you have any suggestions, or could you give me some resources that could help me make this decision?

This is an excellent question, and there are actually several issues here.

For starters, I’m not sure if that “no debt” statement means that she has no debt period, or that she has no consumer debt, but perhaps has a mortgage associated with the recent home purchase. The lack of h

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I’m currently engrossed in Peter Elkind’s entertaining 2010 book Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. It’s a laugh-filled, fast-paced look at the life of the former New York attorney general and governor, whose swift rise to the top job in Albany was followed by an even swifter slalom out of elected office, after bombshell disclosures the “Luv Gov” had frolicked with ladies of the night.

Though the world of finance is laced through and through this story, one of the book’s particularly catchy references to cash snared my eye and led me to make a mental note — once I’d stopped chortling. The New York City business through which “Client No. 9″ (Spitzer) proc

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