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5 Long-Term Financial Goals and How to Achieve Them

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Save for retirement Expected time: 10-35 years Account types: Retirement plans including IRAs, 401(k)s and pensions Planning for retirement is one of the most common long-term financial goals. Most people enter the workforce with over 30 years until retirement, so the sooner you can start saving, the more wealth you can build.

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Reconnecting older workers with the office: have we retired what matters most?

Workplace Insight

Older workers now make up a larger percentage of the workforce than they did two decades ago. Data from Legal and General and the Centre for Economic Research (Cebr) suggests that the number of over 50s in employment has increased by 36 percent in the last 20 years, with 47 percent of this age group predicted to be in employment by 2030.

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The Biggest Financial Mistakes to Avoid in Your 20s

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In the long run, this ignorance is bliss mentality only leads to more problems, whether it’s mounting credit card debt or puny retirement funds. Knowing their numbers is particularly important for freelancers, gig workers and/or people with side hustles —types of work that members of Gen Z are increasingly picking up.

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4 Smart Money Moves to Plan for Financial Security

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Besides all the external factors that have essentially set them up for, well, failure (think the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic), only 16% of millennials can be considered financially literate, according to George Washington University’s Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center. Start a retirement plan.

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The Biggest Financial Mistakes to Avoid in Your 20s

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In the long run, this ignorance is bliss mentality only leads to more problems, whether it’s mounting credit card debt or puny retirement funds. Knowing their numbers is particularly important for freelancers, gig workers and/or people with side hustles —types of work that members of Gen Z are increasingly picking up.

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Simplify Your Filing System and Retire Your To-File Pile

All Things Admin

When was the last time you made an effort to catch up on your filing? Filing usually means getting up from your desk, walking to a supply cabinet, locating the file folders, walking back to your desk, printing a label, feeding the label sheet into the printer, retrieving the label from the printer, and finally assembling the file.

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How Do You Survive When Your Business Isn’t Profitable at the Start?

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You figure out how much you will need to cover all your personal expenses, including bills, retirement savings and the like. These are the kinds of questions that keep entrepreneurs up at night. If being a success a decade from now means giving up some creature comforts in the meanwhile, the sacrifice feels more worth it.

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