Saving and Investing
Resources
Reach Your Savings
Goals-savings calculator
Saving money isn't difficult and the rewards are huge! Committing to saving
a certain amount of money from your allowance, job, or gifts is the first
step towards a lifetime of financial security. Check out this easy-to-use
calculator and see how you can reach your goals by saving.
Financial
Planning Calculators on the Internet
This site has links to over 100 calculators to help you with a wide array
of financial planning issues including budgeting, credit, home mortgage,
and retirement planning. Some of the savings calculators include:
- What long will it take to become a millionaire?
- How much will my savings be worth?
- How will taxes and inflation affect my savings?
How much difference will the rate make?
- What's it worth to reduce my spending?
- Which is better: cash or payments?
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Ways to Save
Practical suggestions for smart spending and saving that can help consumers
stretch their financial resources.
Building
Wealth: a Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Financial Future
(interactive
version)
Provides introductory guidance to individuals and families seeking help
to develop a plan for building personal wealth. Includes information on
net worth, goal setting, budgeting, investing, and debt management.
Savings
Fitness: a Guide to Your Money and Your Financial Future
Personal finance strategies to help you reach your retirement goals.
B3683
Investment Basics
This Extension publication provides an introduction to common savings
and investment products and helps a beginning investor to start designing
and implementing an investment plan.
Investing
for Your Future
This 11-unit on-line home study course was developed by the Cooperative
Extension system for beginning investors with small dollar amounts to
invest at any one time. It covers basic topics such as setting goals,
investment terms, finding money to invest, and understanding the tradeoff
between risk and reward. It also includes the basic characteristics of
each major type of investment--how they are purchased and what it costs
to purchase them It concludes with how to select professional financial
advisors and information to help you avoid becoming a victim of investment
fraud.
Invest
Wisely: an Introduction to Mutual Funds
This overview of mutual funds from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
explains the basics every mutual funds investor needs to know.
Investing in U.S.
Savings Bonds and Treasury Securities
Learn all about Series EE, I, and HH savings bonds and other U.S Government
Securities-safe, secure and offering attractive returns. You can now government
purchase bonds on line. The web site also includes a calculator to determine
the value of bonds you may own.
Treasury
Direct
Now you can purchase government bills, notes and bonds on line directly
from the U.S. Treasury Bureau of Public Debt.
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