So it’s Finance Fridays again. This is going to be a relatively short post I hope. Over the past few months, I’ve dedicated a lot of time to teaching what I consider the basics of finance. I looked over the past 28 Finance Fridays posts and I’ve talked about investing and retirement. I’ve spoken about portfolios and financial advisors. However, I think the best place to start when it comes to finance is these two posts: Talking […]
Finance
We’re going to switch gears this week and talk about retirement planning a bit again, specifically: pensions. In my prior posts based upon retirement, I touch upon pensions a little bit. Retiring Early, How to Retire Early, Early Retirement is Easy?, and Best Bang for Your Buck Retirement Locations I also briefly mentioned that you should consider pensions when you are Choosing Your First Job However, I didn’t realize that I had not really discussed […]
How to Value a Pension
What is a DINK? DINK is an acronym which stands for Dual Income No Kids. I had no idea what this meant until a high school friend used it to refer to one of our other high school friends: “Hey, how’s [our other friend] doing?” “Oh, he’s married now. No kids though.” “Oh what!? Couple of DINKs huh?” “…?” He then went on to explain it meant Dual Income No Kids, and I guess it […]
Dual Income No Kids (DINK)
My previous posts about 529s were Finance Fridays posts which can be found here: What is a 529? Choosing a 529 Wait… but today is Whatever Wednesdays… Why are we talking about 529s? Well, you see a colleague and I mine were talking about them yesterday, and I felt it was good discussion. It also helped me to understand how people may view 529s. While its benefits seems “obvious” to me, it is less obvious […]
Let’s Talk About 529s
So… I made a small mistake. Two posts ago, in Could Index Funds Be Bad?, I said at the end that my next post would be about Actively Managed Funds (Gambling). However, for some reason I decided to make the next post, The Biggest Mistake of Your Life. I’m not sure why this happened. Nonetheless, here is that post:
Actively Managed Funds (Gambling)
The title should really be: “The Biggest Mistake of Your (Attending) Life”, but it didn’t flow as well, so I just cut out the attending part. It ended up sounding click-baitish, but I think that’s ok. What I have to say today will significantly shape your future. So when you read this title, you may have some preconceived notions for what I meant. Perhaps you thought that I was going to say going into medicine […]