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One common question I get is about Mutual Funds, should you really own them? Should you invest only in stocks and not pay the mutual fun fees? Maybe you should just keep your money in a savings account?

My fiancee before we met would just as soon park her money in a savings account and leave it earn .5%. She was happy her money was safe and secure and she could withdraw it at anytime.

After we dated for a while and I was comfortable giving advice to her I explained to her how inflation was making her actually lose money.

To make matters worse her 401k from work was actually investing in a money market fund paying 1%.

Taking it one step at a time we got the 401k money out of the money market and into Dodge and Cox Stock Fund, HSBC International Fund and Vanguard Index 500 (I know not the best funds going but we had limited choices), although I do currently like Dodge and Cox which recent reopened to new investors and is at a fairly low price per share. This money was not moved in one shot. We moved a little at a time as she became more and more comfortable.

Then we worked on opening up a Roth IRA. For this selection we chose Fairholme, which has a solid track record and should be a good selection.

Next for her emergency fund we got out of the .5% savings account and into an Ing Direct Savings account which paid just a little over 3%.

This has been quite a financial transformation and it still is a work in progress.

If you are interested in individual stocks I will be posting more about stocks I current like, similar to what I did with Harley Davidson stock (HOG).

As many of you know I am getting married April 25th 2009. My soon to be wife is just awesome, she is just the best.

When it comes to money we are very different, usually when two people are getting married one is a spender and one is a saver. We actually have a different problem. We are both savers but different styles!

She tends to hoard money in low yielding savings accounts, me on the other hand I tend to put money in mutual funds and individual stocks.

After much discussion I finally convince her to open her first Roth IRA that is in a mutual fund, I think she understands the importance of investing but doesn’t really understand it enough to be comfortable actually doing it.

One this she IS awesome at is looking for deals while shopping. One of our first real money fights was when we both went to the grocery store and I just grabbed something without looking for the cheapest brand.

Overall, I think out financial styles will merge quite well and things will work out great, but it goes to show it is hard when getting married because you are also merging two different financial styles.