Retirement
Ever feel like you’re behind in life? You scroll through social media and see someone your age, or younger, driving luxury cars, flashing Rolex watches, or claiming they just made six figures from their latest investment. Meanwhile, you’re still figuring… Continue Reading
At some stage on your retirement journey, you will find yourself asking, where can I open a self-directed IRA. I know for myself it was many years after I started contributing to an IRA that I even found out such a… Continue Reading
What is the best way to start investing for beginners? If you are asking yourself this question the chances are that you are expecting to be told where to put your money. We’ll get to that, but you need to… Continue Reading
What is the best investment strategy for retirement? There is a tried and tested answer to this question. The generally accepted wisdom is that you should hold the percentage of bonds in your portfolio that matches your age in years.… Continue Reading
What have the stock market returns for the last 30 years been and how has that changed over time. Can we expect that the current economic meltdown will change accepted wisdom and have us all fleeing into bonds, real estate,… Continue Reading
Are savings bonds worth buying? My granddad certainly thought so. Like many of his generation, his life was molded by powerful historic events, and that is an understatement. I am often humbled by thoughts of what my grandparents lived through… Continue Reading
Checking our retirement plans is something many of us do from time to time. There are many online calculators on the internet that can help you develop a plan or adjust an existing plan. This comparison, looks for an answer… Continue Reading
Here’s an observation, many people are interested in building an investment portfolio but they don’t know where or how to begin investing in stocks. Checking what is out there on the internet in the way of guidance on this, it… Continue Reading
Headline – A couple tried to retire with 3 million – and it wasn’t enough! You often hear or read these kinds of stories. And it’s often a question of whether the capital sum they had managed to accumulate was… Continue Reading
Are you trying to work out how much money to retire and live well? Or maybe you have already retired early. In which case how much money did you retire on for an early retirement? Here are some simple numbers.… Continue Reading