If you ever contemplated retirement, you certainly have asked yourself this question: “How much money do I need in my nest egg in order to be able to quit working and have my financial needs met?”  Is a million dollars enough?  Or do you need two million or more?  As you might have suspected there [...]

A recent article by Laura Rowley in her Money and Happiness column on Yahoo discusses The Question of Measuring Financial Progress.  In the article she argues that measuring Net Worth is more of a feel-good exercise than a true measure of financial goals.  She supports her argument with an example of her children’s college savings [...]

Do you have a 3 year plan?  Do you know where you want to be, what you want to be doing and how much money you want to have 3 years from now?  Success does not happen by happenstance.  If you don’t know where you want to be in the future and if you don’t [...]

A well known CEO of one of the biggest software companies in the world once said:  “Predictions are a dangerous thing – especially those that pertain to the future.”  It is with full consciousness of the treacherous path a forecaster must walk that I will embark upon the dangerous but exciting journey of predicting the [...]

Do you know the key difference between those that are wealthy and those that are not?  If you answered they have money you got it right – partially right, that is.  Jean Chatzky, the financial editor for NBC’s Today show and host of a daily radio show on the Oprah and Friends channel on Sirius [...]