There are plenty of free net worth trackers on the internet. For most of them, you enter the value of your assets and liabilities, and the calculator does the simple math to show you how much you're worth. The…

The Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement has underscored the power of financial freedom. It's the central theme in my book, Retire Before Mom and Dad. Indeed, financial freedom is the guiding principle of how I manage money. While…

Target date retirement funds make investing in a 401(k) or IRA easy. Simply pick a fund that corresponds with when you plan to retire, and the fund does the rest. In this article we'll look at several of the…

Investing $100 a month is simple. Many use one or more low cost index funds. So why does investing $1 million or more seem to require a more complex portfolio? In short, it doesn't. In this article I talk…

Albert Einstein purportedly said “compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.” The question is how do we understand it? We can start by running 7 calculations…

I've been investing for over 30 years. I've been writing about investing for the past 15 years. One of the questions I get the most is whether you should invest in an S&P 500 Index fund or a total…