More Resources
More Resources
Investor.gov provides free financial planning tools such as:
Required Minimum Distribution calculator
Compound Interest & Savings Goal calculator
Social Security Retirement Estimator
Retirement Ballpark Estimator
Mutual Fund Analyzer
529 Plan Expense Analyzer
Consumer.gov provides free education and tools for budgeting, managing debt, and identity protection.
Bogleheads is a free educational forum primarily dedicated to personal finance, investing, and financial planning. The site has wiki pages available as well as a long history of forum discussions and an unofficial Reddit page.
Portfolio Visualizer has a variety of free tools such as asset class or portfolio backtesting, monte carlo simulations (useful for retirement projections), asset correlation analysis, and more. Remember that past performance is not necessarily indicative of future returns.
Vanguard's free fund comparison tool can be helpful in understanding and comparing various metrics of funds/ETFs such as portfolio composition, past performance (pre-tax and after-tax), risks, expense ratios, and more. Remember that past performance is not necessarily indicative of future returns.
Bigger Pockets is a free educational forum primarily dedicated to real estate investing. They also have a variety of podcasts available.
Podcasts
YouTube (see below)
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