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42% More Likely to Succeed? Write Down Your 10 Financial Goals for 2025!

Dear Mr. Market

Create or Refresh Your Budget Think of your budget as the foundation of your financial house. Review Investment Allocations Markets evolve, and so should your portfolio. And My Portfolio Guide, LLC will be right here, cheering you on. Heres your top 10 financial planning checklist for the new year. Absolutely.

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Budgeting For Couples: How To Budget As A Couple

Clever Girl Finance

Budgeting as a couple is critical in managing your household finances. Your budget not only allows you to plan and track where the money will be spent, but it enables you to direct the course of your finances together. Table of contents 5 Steps to get started budgeting as a couple Expert tip What is the best way to budget as a couple?

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3 Alternatives to the “Mint” Budgeting App

MainStreet Financial Planning

With the recent news of Mint shutting down, we wanted to share a few helpful alternatives for budgeting tools to help you stay on track with accomplishing your goals! YNAB – YNAB stands for “You Need a Budget” and it is one that I have personally used and recommend to friends and clients. month or if you pay all at one time it is $99.99/year

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Personal finance links: desired results

Abnormal Returns

economist.com) How to maintain a minimalist portfolio. wsj.com) What is the difference between traditional and reverse budgeting? (humbledollar.com) Investing When you invest is more important than how. awealthofcommonsense.com) How your early years as an investor influence risk taking over your lifetime. Choose wisely.

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Budget impact on Investments

Truemind Capital

Here is what we are doing to efficiently manage investments after accounting for the budget changes. Gold is an important asset class in a globally uncertain environment and should have a 10-15% portfolio allocation. This is a big relief for investing outside India to diversify the portfolio. after 2 years of holding.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (January 13-14)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: The Department of Labor (DoL) this week published a final rule delineating what makes an individual an independent contractor versus a company employee, though it did not provide specific guidance for registered representatives of broker-dealers and other financial professionals who have expressed concern that their (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (August 24-25)

Nerd's Eye View

financial planning, CRM, portfolio management), while taking a more tailored approach to selecting tech in other categories. The survey found that most firms fall into the middle category, utilizing tech in categories that provide an assessed high return on investment (e.g.,