Carnival of Financial P...

Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Financial Planning. This edition is arranged by subject heading, so that you can browse efficiently. Enjoy! Budgeting and Economics Jason presents 6 Spring Break Ideas for Families posted at One Money Design , saying, Check out these spring break...

Answer These Six Essent...

The following is an excerpt from the ebook How Much Do I Need to Retire by Todd Tresidder from Financial Mentor. I really enjoyed this book (and worked through it personally in re-calculating my retirement number), so much so that I convinced Todd to give you all a special offer on it....

Picturing Your Destinat...

The following is excerpted with permission of the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.(www.wiley.com) from Risk Less and Prosper: Your Guide to Safer Investing by Zvi Bodie and Rachelle Taqqu. Copyright (c) 2012 by Zvi Bodie and Rachelle Taqqu. Sidebars and tables are in red. This is a...

Flexibility or Salary: ...

Kiplinger highlights a salary versus flexibility survey of Gen Y workers with this being the most controversial finding: About one-third of the respondents, representing college students and young professionals from around the world, said they’d choose more personal freedom, or...

The (Often Understated)...

Here’s a comment a reader emailed me in response to my post titled Five Retirement Surprises : The most stark retirement (surprise) reality that I’ve had, and I was warned about it by a good friend, is “the inflation factor” which prominently figures into the...

Investing Mostly in Bon...

The following is a guest post from Marotta Wealth Management . Everyone worries about running out of money in retirement. Few people feel secure about government spending and Social Security. Even fewer retirees are confident about the future returns of the stock market. In the midst of...

Star Money Articles and...

Here are some pieces I found especially worthwhile and some of the carnivals Free Money Finance was in this week: Carnival of Personal Finance   My Dollar Plan covers innocent spouses . Money Smart Life lists a checklist for quitting your job . The Digerati Life tells some...

Retirement Costs in 13 ...

We’ve talked a ton about the following subjects: Where you live has a big impact on your expenses. Some cities/countries simply cost more to live in than others. One viable retirement strategy (especially for those short on cash) is to move to a lower cost-of-living country that is...

Financial Strategy #1: ...

The book Your Stronger Financial Future: The Eight Essential Strategies for Making Profitable Investments lists eight misconceptions, truths, and strategies to help readers deal with a variety of major financial issues. I’ll be highlighting these in several posts and giving you my...

Reader Profile: GB...

The following is the latest post on my new “Reader Profiles” series. Each post in this series details the financial situation and challenges of an FMF reader. The purpose of this series is to help us all identify with people like us (in similar situations — not all will...