Category: Investing

7 Mistakes Six Figure-Earners Make [Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Clint Haynes, a Certified Financial Planner® and Founder of NextGen Wealth. His primary focus is working with Millennials and Generation X clients with an emphasis on comprehensive financial planning.] Earning a six-figure salary can make building wealth easier, but it’s not a magic solution for your financial

Index investing for Beginners – Your Complete Guide [Editor’s Note: Today’s article is from Kevin over at Just Start Investing. Enjoy!] Everyone should be investing in some capacity if they can. Whether it’s through a 401(k), a Roth IRA, or just a personal brokerage account, investing is one of the best things you can do for yourself! And if all

The HSA Triple Tax Advantage For those that are striving towards FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), one question that has to be addressed is: How to pay for healthcare? Baby Boomers don’t have to worry too much (hopefully) with Medicare still in place. But what about the younger generation and FIRE members? I realize that they have decades to figure

How To Build Wealth From Nothing If you’re like most doctors or other healthcare professionals, starting out practicing with a negative net worth is more common than not. While your friends began working in their 20’s, you couldn’t start until much later due to a lengthy training schedule well into your 30’s or 40’s. I remember when I was in

[Editor’s Note: This guest post was was originally written by Adebayo Fasanya from Dr. Breathe Easy Finance.] The investing maze is complex and it can be very difficult to find the best and most effective way to navigate through it. Good news!! There are 7 habits that highly effective investors use regularly to simplify this complex world of investing and

The great Albert Einstein said, “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” I couldn’t have said it any better myself. For anyone who wants to build lasting wealth and accomplish financial freedom, understanding and harnessing the power of compound interest is essential. It’s also the

(Editor’s note: This post was originally published on The Money Mix.) Congratulations. You’re a doctor and your income potential is much higher than most. Once you get to the point that you’ve paid off your student loans and credit card debt, it’s now time to focus on saving and investing. With so much information floating around in the personal finance

I recently read the hard to find book, Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth by Nick Murray. In it, he discussed four behavioral tactics to be practiced during different “seasons” of one’s investing lifetime. One of the behaviors was: “Invest the same amounts monthly, in the same funds, so as to harness the power of dollar cost averaging.” He gave a great

Ok, Ok. I admit. I’m a bit biased on today’s topic regarding one of the best personal finance podcasts you should listen to. Denis and Katie over at the Chain Of Wealth recently reached out to yours truly for a podcast interview on their site. They’ve recorded over 150 episodes talking with members of the personal finance and FIRE community.

In 2004, I originally read David Bach’s book, The Automatic Millionaire, after it was first released. He has since updated it to an “Anniversary Edition” in 2016. Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the financial blog space regarding millionaires. It seems that many people want to know two things: Who they are? How to become one? If you want