Calculators
« Previous EntriesA Comprehensive List of Retirement Planning Tools and Calculators
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Today’s Wall Street Journal Cranky Consumer column was about Calculating Your Retirement Nest Egg. They tested the following five online retirement calculators:
Ballpark Estimate (ChoosetoSave.org)
Retirability Check (Nationwide) - I profiled this calculator last October.
AARP’s Calculator
myPlan (Fidelity) - Only 5 questions
myPlan Retirement Quick Check (Fidelity) - Takes 30 minutes!
To their list, I would like to add:
TIAA-CREF:
Retirement [...]
The Top 5 Reasons to Pay Off Your Mortgage?
Monday, May 14th, 2007Notice the question mark at the end of this post’s title.
I found The Top 5 Reasons to Pay Off Your Mortgage via Debt Blitzkrieg. I found most of the five “reasons” to be quite weak. Here’s their top five reasons to pay off your mortgage along with my response:
1. It’s money in [...]
How Would $4 Gas Affect Your Budget?
Friday, April 27th, 2007I was talking with my wife about how some people are predicting gasoline to go to $4 per gallon. She said, “Wow. That would cause us to make changes to our budget. Something would have to be cut.”
She’s right. My wife drives a lot of miles and according to [...]
JLP Responds - Interest-Only Mortgages
Monday, April 9th, 2007I’m a little behind on reading the comments to some of the posts over the last few days. DB of Debt Blitzkrieg left the following comment on my Interest-Only Mortgage Update post:
On the other hand it would be interesting to see where you’d be if you paid off that mortgage in 25, 20, 15, [...]
How an Interest-Only Mortgage Works
Thursday, March 29th, 2007Let’s say you want to buy a house and will need to finance it with a $200,000 mortgage. You meet with a mortgage broker and they show you two loans: a 30-year fixed rate mortgage at 6.30% and a 30-year fixed rate mortgage with an interest-only period of 15 years (also at 6.30%). [...]
Check Out the Latest Dave Ramsey Poll
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007I found this interesting. Below is a snapshot of a recent poll on DaveRamsey.com:
81% of the pollsters think a 15-year mortgage is the best choice?
Being that it is on the Dave Ramsey website, these results don’t really surprise me. And, I suppose if you are looking at just the amount of [...]
How to Calculate the Expected Return on a Portfolio
Friday, January 19th, 2007Most of the readers of this blog already know how to make this calculation. However, one my goals for AllFinancialMatters is to reach out to those who wouldn’t normally hang out at personal finance blogs. I do this (or at least try to do this) by taking various subjects and simplify them so [...]
A New Portfolio Return Calculator
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007It has been months since I last put together a calculator. My latest calculator, the Asset Allocation and Portfolio Performance Calculator, came to fruition after I put together my post about the Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns. The returns I talked about in that post were all individual index returns. Those [...]
Building Wealth on $1.67 Per Day!
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006How’s that for a catchy title?
This post was inspired by the following comment I received from a reader:
Do You Know Your “R-Score?”
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Nationwide, the sponsor of the RetirAbility Check, is a current advertiser on AllFinancialMatters.
Nationwide has developed a new software program that will allow people to get a sense of where they are in their ability to retire. The program is called RetirAbility Check. Although I did find the exercise relatively easy to go through, [...]