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Are You On Track To Retire? Betterment RetireGuide’s Got Your Back

Launched in 2010, Betterment.com has become the foremost automated investing service for people like you and me who want sound investing advice with minimal fees and action required on our part. I...

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When It’s Okay To Change Your Goals

In 2014, I set quite a few goals. It doesn’t matter what they were, what matters is that I set, like 10 goals, and laid out steps to reach them. Over the course of the year, I completed several goals...

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How Much Are Investment Fees Costing You?

You’re working, as we are, towards retirement. Think about it – Cutting Costs DIY-ing Utilizing Credit Card Rewards Diversifying Your Income Investing Paying Off Debt All of these things tend to take...

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How Refinancing Debt with EVEN Financial Can Save You Thousands

I am lazy sometimes, I admit it. Especially when it comes to complicated things like taking on new debt or refinancing old debt.  The thought of all of the waiting, the paperwork, and the unknowns,...

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4 Great Ways To Start Investing with $100

Not great at saving? Don’t worry, we’ve all been there. As a reformed non-saver myself, I know what a struggle it is to change, so before we talk about how to start investing with basically no money,...

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8 Tips For A Financially Fit 2016

We’ve got our feet  squarely into 2016, which is wonderful, because we’ve been given a clean slate.  It’s time to reflect on the good and bad of 2015 and create a plan for the year ahead. And I don’t...

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Tips for Investing in Alternative Sources

If you are looking for a way to expand your horizons without doing the usual business of investing in stocks, bonds and the other boring assets you have already done a thousand times over, you may...

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Don’t Let Your Dream Get Your Down: 18 Ways To Save Money Building Your Dream...

This year may well give way to one of our family’s biggest adventures yet: building a house. It all depends on how the house search goes: whether or not we can find a fixer-upper or move in ready house...

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Are You Keeping Up With The Joneses? 2016 Retirement Contribution Limits

How much of a priority are your retirement savings? Waiting to start saving for retirement is a huge financial mistake, because each day you’re spending instead of saving you miss out on interest that...

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Don’t Waste Time: What You Need To Know About Investing In Your 20’s

Ah, the 20’s. College, parties, bars and relationships make up much of the first part of your twenties, and by the time you reach the second half most people are entrenched in climbing the corporate...

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What The Heck Is Credit Card Churning?

Bloggers have been making a big splash lately with headlines like “How I Spent Only $14,000 Taking $195,000 Worth Of Trips Around The World.” And while I’m all for a good headline – backed up by GREAT...

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The Super Simple Strategy That Saved Us $15,633 On Our Mortgage

Financial decisions are tough. Even if you have a head for numbers, can take emotion out the game like nobody’s business, and are a budgeting rockstar, making complex decisions can still be tough,...

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The Tool That Saved Me $2,884.02 in 18 Months

By now, I think you know just how much I love saving money. I would almost go as far as to say that I’m obsessed with it. But I wasn’t always that way.  There was a time – when I was really, really,...

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6 Ways We’re Banking $3,862.36 For Retirement

I remember when I was in college, thinking about retirement. (yes, I thought about retirement in college.  I was an accounting major….what did you expect?) How can I start saving for retirement in my...

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6 Ways To Get Rid of PMI

Ugh, PMI. It just sticks around forever, and getting rid of PMI? In case you haven’t heard, PMI is the pits… Not familiar with it? PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance, and it’s the insurance...

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