Growth Toward Retirement
Tools To Get You Started
Get a head start on your journey toward achieving financial independence by analyzing and tracking your income, expenses, investment performance, and overall net worth with the free online wealth management tool Personal Capital.
We use Personal Capital regularly to analyze our investment fees, track our investments, and project our net worth. We also periodically review our progress toward retirement with their retirement planning calculator.
If you’d rather do things on your own, become a subscriber today and you’ll receive our Free Financial Planning Dashboard. This tool allows you to enter your income and expenses to create a detailed budget. You can use it to track your spending habits over time or just to get an idea of where your money is going each month. Take a look at the automatically generated charts and you may discover you have a little more cash to invest than you thought.
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Congratulations on July, 4.41% growth in a single month is really impressive. Do you share your FI number? I’m new to your blog and couldn’t find it anywhere. Thank you so much for sharing your story by the way. I love reading about other people pursuing financial independence, there’s always something to learn from their experience. I started my journey towards financial independence 3 years ago, hoping to be able to retire within 5 years. To my own surprise, I’m actually on track to pull it off. I didn’t go the traditional stocks and bonds route so maybe you can… Read more »
Thanks! We don’t currently share our actual numbers, only the percentages. I checked out your website your strategy is definitely unique, but there is more than one way to skin a cat. It looks like you’ve been super successful congrats, for being right on track!