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People ask when to start investing for retirement? The answer to the question is as early in life as possible. The sooner a person starts saving, the more comfortable they will feel about retirement. If someone starts early enough they may be able to retire earlier than a lot of people.
To be able to save for retirement a person must think positive. If someone looks at what is needed for retirement, sometimes it seems like there is no way to achieve this. Believe me, you can. Never say I think I can, say I know I can.

One main fact about saving for retirement is to pay yourself first. By this I mean take your savings off of the top of your salary. If you belong to a 401 K, you are going to have a pretax savings. Also never think about paying all of the other things in life first, because it will all be spent before a person realizes.
The next thing is to invest regularly. No matter how little or how much a person invest, it is important to do it on a regular basis. This helps with dollar cost averaging.
Another factor in saving is to diversify the funds. This means not to put all of the savings into one area. What some investors say is, "don't put all of your money in one basket."
Actually if you think about it, one dollar builds on another and another. A person starts with a foundation as you would with a house. As time goes on their is interest, dividends, more invested, stock price or mutual fund price goes up, and it is a full circle. With the interest and dividend reinvested, this makes more interest and dividends on what was reinvested. An example would be if you are raising cattle, and you start with a bull and a mate. They produce a calf. You buy another calf to mate with the offspring of the first bull and mate, and they produce a calf. You keep doing this and before you know it there will be a pasture full of
cows.
So when are you going to start saving for retirement? If you haven't started yet, I would suggest you start now, regardless of your age.

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