Traditional IRA versus 401k: Choosing The Right Retirement Account For Your Financial Planning Goals

As you work on your financial planning, you know you’ll need to save for your retirement. But with the various savings vehicles available, it may be hard to decide which way to go. How can tell if you should invest in an IRA or 401k? The following article and our suggested financial planning tools may be able to help.

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Smart Tax Strategies For The Big Personal Finance Events In Your Life

Taxes are one of the biggest personal finance events that occur in your life. Mint Money Management gives you smart tax strategies to stretch your dollars further. At any stage in your life, sound personal finances includes being smart about taxes.

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Money Management: Which IRA Is Right For You?

Investing via an IRA (Individual Retirement Account) is smart money management — what’s not to like about putting your money in an account where it can grow tax deferred or even tax free?

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Preparing Your Taxes? Time to Organize Your Personal Finances

Tax preparation may be the money management task that we may least enjoy, but it could be a great time to organize our personal finances. Take advantage of our advice at Mint.

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Are You What You Spend? How to Create a Personal Budget.

We’ve all heard that “we are what we eat”. Is it equally true that how we choose to spend our money also defines us? Are we what we spend? And if so, then shouldn’t we make sure that our spending choices align with our personal goals? Are you curious to discover how well or poorly your spending reflects your personal priorities?

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Credit Card Balance Transfers: Pros, Cons and Personal Budget Management

We posted recently on several ways to practice sound personal budget management, including balance transfers as one way to reduce the cost of your debt… while you get busy paying it down. We got questions on the pros and cons of balance transfers, so we’re following up with a deeper dive on that topic.

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Personal Financial Planning: Putting Home Ownership Within Your Reach

Buying a first home is perhaps one of the most important decisions most of us will ever make. It ranks up there with choosing a college degree, career, marriage, and children. Fortunately, saving for a home can be within everyone’s reach, because you can get there by working smarter — not harder — at some things you already do today.

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Personal Financial Tracking and Four Steps to Establishing and Achieving Personal Financial Goals

It is said that “people never plan to fail; they just fail to plan.” It can also be said that setting a detailed goal is far different than merely aspiring for something. Getting out of debt, buying a new home, or creating a work/life balance requires a clear strategy…

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Budget Management Software and Secrets to Budgeting Success

The major difference between people ruled by money worries and people in control of their financial destiny is that dreaded 6-letter word: BUDGET. Starting and maintaining a budget are hurdles many cannot overcome, and for that reason, they are forever struggling, living paycheck to paycheck. Here are five easy-to-follow steps that will help you get your budget and finances in order ASAP.

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Three Principles of Personal Finance: All You Need to Know for Financial Success

More than 10,000 books have been written about personal finance. You could spend a lifetime reading them. Some of them are great; others are 99% motivation, 1% actual, actionable information. The truth is personal finance is simple. Every one of these books can be reduced into three basic principles…

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