Love and Money: The Funny Month of February
The balance of love and money.
Do You Have Investing FOMO?
You need to invest wisely in order to grow your wealth. FOMO is not a plan.
Budgeting for the Holidays?
Create a holiday budget to make Christmas spending a joy. You can have a spending plan without being a Grinch.
The Basics of Benefits Enrollment Packages
Benefits enrollment season is your annual chance to maximize your earnings.
How to Write a Nasty Email or Blog
Whether you were unjustly the recipient of a ‘nastygram’ yourself and wanted to respond, or if you have something you need to get off your chest, here’s how to write a snappy reply back:
Don’t.
Before You Kick Back to a Traditional Retirement, Read This
ARE YOU PLANNING FOR AN ACTIVE, ROBUST RETIREMENT?
Should You Rent or Buy a Home?
There’s no one right answer to the question, “should you rent or buy?”
How Much Is Too Much College Debt?
How Much College Debt Is Too Much?
Why Average Investors Don’t Beat the Market
Focusing on returns isn’t necessarily a sound investment strategy — and it could be part of what leads average investors to perform so poorly.
Resist Progress at Your Own Peril
It’s not that bad stuff happens more. It’s just that you hear more about it than you ever did in the past.
Make Room for Your Passion in Your Life and Your Budget
Most of us have something that we absolutely love to do. But life often gets in the way of that passion.
Why Your Retirement Is More Important Than Saving for College
Yes, it sounds harsh. But this is an important financial reality to understand: you should prioritize your retirement savings over saving for your kids’ college expenses.
Make the Most of Your Vacations: Save for Travel, Not a Vacation Home
It’s well worth understanding how to make the most of your vacations, you’re better off saving your money for trips, experiences, and various destinations — not a second home.
Budgeting for Coffee Sucks, Try This Instead
Trying to cut back on your spending gets tedious when you focus on minute details. Yes, it’s important to track every dollar — but to feel anxious about spending on small purchases that you value because you’re trying to save more and spend less?
Carl RichardsIn Times of Change, Focus on Your Financial Plan
No one can guarantee when the markets will go up or down. Lots of talking heads and so-called “experts” like to claim they know when factors like news items or current events will impact how the stock market behaves, but it’s all guesswork.
Philip TaylorReady to invest in real estate? Take a close look at your margins
Is buying investment property a wise idea? Is it the best way to build wealth? Is rental property really ‘risk averse’?
Generation X? I feel your pain!
Generation X has some problems—and not just their own. Perhaps the biggest one of all is that this group has everyone else’s problems too!
Michael Rivas quoted in Investment News
Forget boomers and millennials, Gen Xers need advisers’ help the most
Even though they are in their peak earning years, they have the poorest financial habits
A New Age of Opportunity
Change may be a given, but even when we know it’s for the better, shifting our own thinking can be quite a challenge.
Is “breaking news” killing your financial plan?
The fact is, all that financial “news” means absolutely nothing to the normal investor. Sure, the play-by-play changes in the stock market may make a difference to the day traders—at least for the day. And yes, the clicks on CNN’s website will make a difference to some marketing genius’s commission check. But for anyone investing for the long term, none of it matters. It’s just noise.
