If you manage your family’s personal finances, what would happen if the worst happened and you were no longer “available” to manage the household finances? In our house, I manage the finances, and Mrs. Modest is perfectly okay with that. If something happened to me, I don’t know if my wife would know the location of all our assets. Enter, the money binder. In today’s episode we talk about the importance of a money binder and how to create one today.
Read MoreMM014: The Simple Math of Calculating Inflation in Retirement
Figuring out how to calculate how inflation affects your retirement savings is made out to be a super-complicated process, requiring advanced math skills. What’s frustrating is that calculating how your retirement savings is impacted by inflation isn’t all that difficult. In today’s episode, we talk about the simple math of calculating inflation in retirement.
Read MoreMM006: Understanding Retirement Accounts: IRAs
Sometimes you don’t have access to a 401(k). Sometimes you want to have more control over which funds you’re investing in. Sometimes you just want to have more retirement savings vehicles available to you. The IRA is the unheralded hero of the modern-day retirement savings plan. Find out why.
Read MoreMM001: Breaking the Rules of Retirement: A Manifesto
On today’s inaugural episode, we talk about the goals and objectives the podcast, household budgeting, the difference between “retirement” and “personal finance” one of the first tools I used while getting a handle on our personal finances and I’ll give you a little background info as we chart our household’s journey to Modest Millions.
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