Mortgage Rates for January 23: Rates tick up slightly – SFGATE
Mortgage Rates for January 23: Rates tick up slightly SFGATE
Mortgage Rates for January 23: Rates tick up slightly SFGATE
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Good debt and bad debt are terms used to describe different types of debt and their effects on your financial health. Good debt is debt that improves your income or net worth, can be repaid responsibly, and has a good return on investment. Â Bad debt, on the other hand, is debt that you are […]
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Dinnerly promises ready-to-prep meals delivered to your doorstep for $5 a plate. Is this the cheapest meal kit delivery service around?
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In November 2018, the National Bureau of Economic Research published a paper called “Saving Regret” [here’s the full PDF version]. Once you wade through the study’s academic language, there’s some interesting stuff here about why people do and don’t save for retirement.
Saving regret, the authors say, is “the wish in hindsight to have saved more earlier in life”.
Obviously, you can suffer from saving regret at any age. When I met 31-year-old Debbie for dinner last week, her issues boiled down to saving regret. She wishes she’d saved more when she was younger. But for the purposes of this paper, the authors turned their attention to folks aged 60 to 79, people of traditional retirement age.
The researchers found that two-thirds of those surveyed said they should have saved more when they were working: “66.6 percent said they would save more if they could re-do their earlier life.”
As you might expect, the authors found that high-wealth and high-income people experience less saving regret. (I’m pleased that the researchers recognize that there’s a difference between income and wealth.)
But what causes saving regret in the first place? Why don’t people save more? Let’s take a look at what the study found.
In their survey of 1590 people, the authors asked about education, personality, and what they term “positive and negative shocks”. (The latter is basically trying to to determine how unexpected events affect saving.)
After compiling the results, they reached these conclusions:
“Saving regret is high at the time of or shortly before retirement but is much lower at older ages,” the authors write. They believe there are two reasons for this.
Hello! My name is Wendy Mays, and I’m super happy to share a bit of my story. In the past couple of years, my husband and I have taken several big steps to change our financial future.
From the outside looking in, it appeared we had it all: a perfect family in a beautiful, Pinterest-worthy home in sunny San Diego, California. We’d reached the pinnacle. We were living the American Dream.
Many Bank of America customers will now face a $12 a month fee if they donât maintain a $1,500 balance or have a direct deposit of $250.
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Why do we do it to ourselves? What is it in us that seeks out these horribly depressing movies? I don’t know, but guilty. One of my favorite corners of the internet provided the answers to, “What movie ending is horribly depressing?” Here are their top choices. 1. Stand By Me (1986) Based on Stephen King’s … Read more
Today I have a great blog post about how to create a financial plan from my blogging friend Jim Wang. Enjoy! Ever walk out of a restaurant and see a fishbowl at the entrance, filled with business cards? The sign next to it would say “Want a free dinner? Meet with a financial planner!” When […]
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Note from J.D.
Last October, I had a chance to read an advance copy of Grant Sabatier’s new book, Financial Freedom, which was just released this morning. I liked it. I loved parts of it. In fact, the second chapter of Financial Freedom inspired my article about how time is more valuable than money.Today, I’m pleased to present a (heavily edited) excerpt from that second chapter. Here’s Sabatier on why time is more valuable than money — and why you can and should retire early. (Links and photos are from me. Everything else is from the book. Note, however, I’ve heavily edited this chapter in order to abridge it and to make it more readable in blog format.)
If some ninety-year-old rich dude offered you $100 million to trade places with him, would you do it? Of course not. Why? Because time is more valuable than money.
The average person has approximately 25,000 days to live in their adult life. If youâre reading this, you likely need to trade your time for money in order to live a life that is safe, healthy, and happy. But if you didnât have to work to make money, youâd be able to spend that time however you wanted.
No one cares about your time as much as you do. People will try to take your time and fill it up with meetings and calls and more meetings. But itâs your time. Your only time. Financial Freedom is designed to help you make the most of it. Make money buy time.
My goal is to help you retire as early as possible. When I say retire, I donât mean that you’ll never work again, only that youâll have enough money so that you never have to work again. This is complete financial freedom â the ability to do whatever you want with your time.
I donât ever plan to retire in the traditional sense of the word, but you could say that Iâm âretiredâ now because I have enough money and freedom to spend my time doing whatever I want. I no longer have to work for money, but I still enjoy making money, and itâs attached to many of the things I enjoy doing. I love working and challenging myself and hopefully always will, so checking out to a life of leisure just isnât my vibe.
If you want to âretireâ sooner rather than later, you need to rethink everything youâve been taught about retirement and probably most of what youâve been taught about money. As a society, we have collectively adopted one approach to retiring: get a job, set aside a certain portion of your income in a 401(k) or other retirement account, and in 40+ years youâll have enough money saved that you can stop working for good.
This approach is designed to get you to retire in your sixties or seventies, which explains why pretty much every advertisement about retirement shows silver-haired grandmas and grandpas (typically on a golf course or walking along the beach).
There are three major problems with this approach:
The first major problem with traditional retirement advice is that even if you follow it perfectly (and most people usually donât), you still might not have enough to live on when you are in your sixties.
The popular advice to save 5% to 10% of your income isn’t enough. You should be saving as much money as early and often as you can. If you want to be sure you’ll be able to retire at 65, you need to start (and keep) saving at least 20% of your income from the age of 30.
Hereâs how big a difference it makes.