One of the major benefits of a 401k is it allows you to divert taxes on today’s income to your retirement years, when ideally you will find yourself in a lower tax bracket. Of course, that benefit is not always … Continue reading →

Start pondering your resolutions and queue up Auld Lang Syne: 2010 is almost over. Rather than wait for the new year to make changes, take a moment now to focus on a few smart year-end financial moves that can save you big bucks come tax time. Use it or Lose ...

Earlier this week, I read the thought-provoking post at Get Rich Slowly, What Is Retirement? J.D. wrote about a recent camping experience with a few buddies and shared some of their conversation on the subject of retirement. One of the friends pointed out that he already thought of J.D. as ...

This is the fourth post in a series called Saving With Purpose: Living a More Intentional Financial Life. In this series, I plan to highlight a number of specific savings goals my family has identified we would like to achieve over the next few decades. In the last series post we ...