Your Annual Financial Check-Up: Key Areas to Review
Covers reviewing your budget, investment performance, retirement contributions, insurance coverage, credit report, net worth calculation, and progress towards goals.
This resource is a guide to personal finance, covering budgeting, investing, and financial freedom. It shares trends, practical advice, tools, and encourages community interaction for shared experiences and insights.
Covers reviewing your budget, investment performance, retirement contributions, insurance coverage, credit report, net worth calculation, and progress towards goals.
Compares how they trade, expense ratios, minimum investments, tax efficiency, and when one might be preferred over the other for different investors.
Discusses budgeting for childcare, healthcare, housing changes, saving for college early, life insurance needs, and updating your estate plan.
Covers income-driven repayment (IDR) plans, potential forgiveness programs (e.g., PSLF), consolidation, and when refinancing might make sense based on current rates.
Explains each component of the SMART framework with financial examples (e.g., saving for a down payment) to create clear, actionable financial objectives.
Breaks down delivery fees, service charges, inflated menu prices, and tips, encouraging mindful use and comparing costs to traditional shopping/cooking.
Explains how the principal value of TIPS adjusts with inflation (CPI), how interest is paid, tax considerations, and their role in hedging purchasing power risk.
Strategies include automating savings increases, setting spending rules for raises/bonuses, prioritizing long-term goals, and practicing gratitude.
Considers current mortgage rates, potential investment returns, tax implications, liquidity needs, and the psychological benefit of eliminating mortgage debt.