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I like to review my financial situation near the end of the year to prep for tax season, give to charity, etc. For any who cannot access the article or are too lazy, here are the things they recommend:...

Climate Town recently did a fantastic video detailing how banks use our money just sitting around in our account to invest in fossil fuels. Wanting to avoid this, I figured it’d be better to direct my money in an investment that’s at least a little less planet destroying, which lead me down this ecological rabbit hole that I...

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For four decades, patient savers able to grit their teeth through bubbles, crashes and geopolitical upheaval won the money game. But the formula of building a nest egg by rebalancing a standard mix of stocks and bonds isn’t going to work nearly as well as it has.

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/7528778...

The average retirement age in the U.S. is 61, according to a 2022 Gallup survey. But the target age for retirement is 66.

Comingle is an interesting idea that would act as a pseudo emergency fund to provide a stable week to week income for their users. It could act to stabilize your income if you have an irregular income or as an backup plan or insurance for when you lose a job or income source. It works by distributing the average of all their...

I’ve been using You Need a Budget for family budgeting and I like it but it is expensive. I’ve played with Buckets a little bit and looks like a contender. Anyone move from YNAB to Buckets?

Home prices weakened month to month, according to Black Knight. While still gaining, which they usually do at this time of year, the gains fell below their 25-year average. This after significantly outdoing their historical averages from February through June. It’s a signal that a slowdown in prices may be underway again....

Interest will start accruing again on September 1, after rates were effectively set to 0% since March 2020 for federal student loans. Now, interest rates, which are fixed and vary by loan, will return to the same rate they were before the freeze....

What are you invested in? Target date funds, ETFs, individual stocks? Do you think of your portfolio as aggressive, neutral, or conservative?...

Definitely a trend I see around me (Europe, 30 years old)....

Many steps remain before older adults see the benefit of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ upcoming talks with drugmakers.

A buddy of mine told me about Wealthfront recently and they’re 5% money market account rates....