PERSONAL FINANCE
Personal Financial Resources- Financial Calculators
- Sperling's BestPlaces Financial Calculator
- Fritz's Favorite Retirement Calculator
- Cost of Living Calculator
- Money 101
- Credit Counseling
Credit and Debt
- Evaluating Credit Cards
- Don't bite off too much house
- When paying bills can hurt your credit
- 5 credit-fix scams to avoid
- Anatomy of a Credit Score
- The lowdown on credit scores
- How to build your first budget
- Jean Chatzky’s Nine Step Program
- Check Your Credit Report
- Check Your Credit Score
- Shopping for a Credit Card
- The consumers’ guide to credit counseling
- In Financial Trouble? Need Help?
- Four credit-scoring myths
- Beef up your credit score in five steps
- How to read your credit report
- Four steps to building great credit
- Credit cards: Eight dirty secrets
- What you should know before signing up with a credit counseling agency
- Improve your credit score
- Debt overload: Five red flags
- Eight credit score myths
- Three keys to defeating debt now
- Keep thieves out of your bank account
- Ten ways to stop identity theft
- Wall Street Journal article on avoiding early credit mistakes
- 3 keys to defeating debt now
- 8 vital steps to take if your identity is stolen
- 7 fast fixes for your credit score
- Six lessons in simple living
- How many credit cards is too many?
- How that huge credit limit can hurt you
Insurance Links
- Accuquote
- Umbrella Policies Plug Holes In Your Coverage
- Insure.com
- Insweb.com
- QuickQuote.com
- IntelliQuote.com
- Geico.com
- Progressive.com
- Assurant (formerly Fortis)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Humana
Researching Mutual Funds
Fritz's Favorite Mutual Fund Families
Student Loan Information
- Loan Consolidation
- Sallie Mae
- Department of Education
- Graduate Leverage
- Federal Student Aid
- 3 ways to avoid the student-loan trap
- GL Advisor
- Finaid
Approved Credit Counselors
Other Helpful Articles and Links
- How to retire on a wounded portfolio
- Will you run out of money?
- Will my retirement savings last?
- Living off $500 grand
- How Average Joes can retire rich
- 7 Pitfalls Retiring Baby Boomers Must Avoid
- Choose to Save Program
- American Savings Education Council
- American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
- National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
- An easy, three-step wealth score
- Moving to index funds
- The Mutual Fund Education Alliance
- American Association of Individual Investors
- Getting rich is simpler than you think
- Socially conscious investing
- How rich is rich?
- The Garrett Planning Network
- AnnualCreditReport.com