Three Easy Steps to Determine Your Financial Priorities

When you are trying to make a financial plan, or reach a certain financial goal, it is important to have an idea of your financial priorities. After all, without priorities, it is impossible to...

Factoring Your Job into Asset Allocation

If you have ever received advice on investing your money, chances are you’ve had the benefits of diversification drilled into your brain. “Diversify and rule” was my college economics professor’s...

No Buts… Save for Retirement… NOW

I have credit card debts to pay off, student loans to service, bills to pay and a down payment to save up for. I can’t afford to save for retirement. Sound familiar? With all these...

Forget Wealth Building to Retire Comfortably

If you want to be happy in retirement, having a million dollar nest egg hardly gets you there. All over, financial planners advise us to have a certain figure in mind when it comes to retirement. ...

How to Make a Roth IRA Conversion

Even high income earners are eligible to make a Roth IRA conversion starting in 2010. To sweeten the deal even more, those who elect to make the transfer can spread out the taxes owed in years 2010...