Saturday, 1 February 2014

Wealth Management & Saving Amongst College Students

By Rob Sutter


When it comes to the groups of people that will struggle to save the money the most, college students should be the most prominent. They do not have the best jobs, typically, and they seem to be more focused on feeding themselves and getting around as opposed to looking into their financial features. While this is understandable, I'd like to think that they can benefit from a strong case of wealth management. Regardless of their struggles, they should make it a point to save as much money as possible.

Fox Business posted an article that spoke about the subject and it is clearly one of the more intriguing when talking about purely the financial side of things. One of the reasons for this has to do with how much students are going to have to focus on their own bills. As a result, retirement is a point that seems to be ignored, which should not be the case with such a strong service as wealth management being seen. Keying in on the future is vital, as authorities such as Hobart Financial Group can tell you.

After someone starts their job, they have to be able to focus on both student loans and retirement purposes alike. With both sides earning certain degrees of focus, I feel as though student loan payments oftentimes overshadow the ones that are more related to retirement. To me, this is a problem, as the time lost on planning ahead for the future is time that cannot be so easily regained. You want the make the most out of every day as far as retirement planning is concerned.

In my mind, students and young adults alike should consider how important interest rates are in the long term. One of the examples that can be described is if someone were to deposit a few thousand dollars into his or her bank account. On the surface, this amount of money is not tremendous, as just about anyone will be able to tell you. That being said, with interest rates put into effect, the amount can expand to something greater in a few decades. Further prosperity will be had in the future.

With all of this said, I have no doubt that students can benefit tremendously from focusing on retirement planning as early as possible. It's understandable if they struggle with making payments already, whether they are tied to credit cards or what have you. That being said, hopefully there is a level of awareness seen as far as the future is concerned. If money is applied at one during someone's life, the amount that can be seen later on has the potential to be even greater.




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  1. What about picking the correct financial planner while in college I have found that there are a lot of ways to get “screwed” over and lose out on saving for my own upcoming retirement. I had an accountant but they ended up stealing my money, and skipping town. So picking/talking a/with financial planner, these days you have to be really careful, because some of them will rip everything you have out of your pockets. So make sure you pick the right one, here some info on how to pick the right one:http://www.mutualfundstore.com/planning-and-retirement/develop-and-maintain-your-plan/choose-your-advisor However, you still need to listen to your gut, and do the research needed. I learned that the hard way.

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