Talk:Money management
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NOT JUST investments[edit]
Money Management is NOT JUST investments (unless you have a conflict of interest).
For most humans, Money Management is first and last, time management, so plan your life carefully. Periodically think about what you want for your future self. You only have about 4000 weeks (52x80) to get it right enough, so periodically think about balancing it better.
You must use your time to gain money; work in exchange for pay, or manipulate others and their money, to get a portion of it (commission, marriage, or fee).
Once you have more money than you need to keep body and soul together (or whatever your life style is), you have investment capital. Then you must use some spare time to manage that investment capital for maximum Return On Investment (ROI) during the rest of your earning life, constantly (or periodically) adjusting the balance between the time you spend earning money, and the time you spend managing the money you continue to invest.
- Most people foolishly hope to work for 30 years at a job, and then quit (retire).
At the point in time you can dependably earn sufficient money as ROI, that you don't need to earn any more, you can stop working for money, and continue working with your money. At another point, when/if you can be confident that you will have enough dependable ROI that you can set it on "autopilot" and never worry about money again, you can stop worrying about your money.
Go back to the beginning of this plan, and add a 5 year revision schedule. Be sure to include the obvious life milestones, and the ages at which you (guess that you) will be able to physically do what you do for work and fun. Plan for the time and the odds when you will not be able (accidents, injuries, infermity, death), factors that you can guess better than the insurance companies.
You should periodically adjust your life insurance so your dependents can live on their inheritance until they are no longer dependent.
Your health insurance should include a disability rider, regularly adjusted for whatever you expect to earn for the rest of your life.
Wikidity (talk) 23:06, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
A lot of work.[edit]
This article is just plain ugly. Without even considering the content, organizationally it is pretty bad. Good luck, WP:FINANCE. RideABicycle (talk) 03:52, 13 July 2012 (UTC)