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Maxing out your 401k early in the year can cost you a lot of money if you have an employer match. Without the match, front loading your 401k is worth considering. It’s common financial advice to max out a 401k. Putting as much away in a tax advantaged account as possible is just smart financial…
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Imagine working hard for all of nine years. And then at the ripe old age of 30, you and your spouse retire to start a family. While it may sound like a fairy tale, that’s exactly what an engineer named Pete did. Pete is better known as Mr. Money Mustache. We talk a bit about…
I can still remember my first financial plan. The good folks at American Express created a thick, beautifully-bound financial plan for my wife and me when we were first starting out. It was useless. The problem wasn’t Amex, though — the problem was that we didn’t have any assets of which to speak. There wasn’t…
As a 22-year old who was way too excited about investing, I vividly remember creating my first retirement tracking Google Sheet. The sheet was intended to show me how much I could expect to have saved for retirement based on certain monthly contribution amounts and a specific annual rate of return. I still look back…
If you’re saving for retirement but not sure you’re on track to meet your goals, a tool called NewRetirement can help you figure out what to do. NewRetirement offers tools, advice, an overview of your savings, and a financial checkup for free. While there are many retirement planning websites, NewRetirement stands out because it allows…
Online retirement calculators come in all shapes and sizes. Some programs are extremely simple. They typically provide little in the way of helpful information that you can actually use to plan for retirement. Others are complex affairs that require an advanced degree from MIT to use. What follows are 10 online retirement calculators that I…
When it comes to boosting your retirement accounts, the IRS has sent us help in the form of tax-advantaged accounts like a 401(k) and an IRA. If we don’t take full advantage of these money-making tools, we are turning away help when we need it the most. In this article, I will describe the different…
The question of whether to invest in a Roth or traditional has come up a lot lately. Previously, I wrote about these retirement accounts in The Ultimate Guide to Traditional and Roth 401(k) and IRA Retirement Accounts. In that article, I linked to a Roth 401(k) calculator that can help you determine what’s best for…
To answer these questions, I’ve created some charts to show the impact of these decisions on your retirement nest egg. Following the charts, I’ll list some of the factors worth considering as you make your own retirement savings decisions. Save 15% of Gross Income Toward Retirement Albert Einstein is said to have quipped, “compound interest…