Saving and investing are critical categories to include in your monthly spending plan. Yet for many, this can be challenging because of over spending and too much debt.
There are two reasons to save and invest for the future:
You never know when Murphy (as Dave Ramsey puts it) is lurking around the corner. Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. So, you need to be prepared by establishing an emergency savings account.
Most people are interested in building wealth and retiring to one day become free of financial burden. While we don’t believe in the typical view of retirement (doing nothing in the retirement years), we do believe it’s important to invest to one day give of your time and resources to help others and focus more on your life purpose.
Feel free to browse the saving or investing categories for articles, or read a few of our favorites:
Must Read Articles about Saving and Investing
Saving
- How Much Emergency Savings Do You Need?
- Emergency Fund Versus Getting Out of Debt?
- Start Saving Money For Future Expenses
Investing and Retirement
- A Solid Retirement Planning Checklist for Your Mid 30′s to 40′s
- How Do You Find Objective Financial Advisers?
- Are You Making These Mistakes When Hiring a Financial Adviser?
- Why Your 401K May Not Be that Great and What to Do About It
- Should You Invest While Still in Debt?
- Retirement Week: A Solution to the Retirement Crisis
- Sound Mind Investing Review
Books about Saving and Investing
The Sound Mind Investing handbook offers Biblically based personal finance instruction on general money management and particularly investing. As the title states, it’s a handbook. You can pull it offf your shelf to read more about particular investing topics. For example, I recently wanted to learn more about the types of sales loads you need to know about when considering the purchase of mutual funds from a financial advisor. The hand book served as a great reference providing thorough and easy to understand explanations.
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Savings and Investing Tools
The Sound Mind Investing Newsletter is America’s premier Christian financial newsletter. It’s tailored to the do-it-yourself investor and is based on Christian financial principles. Subscriptions are available online or in paper form. Each subscription also provides you access to the SMI member’s blog which is updated with new content regularly.
