When to start investing for retirement 20 Articles

by Jack Thornton

There is a significant challenge to starting to invest for retirement. Article after article attempts to boil it down to a single commandment: 'Thou shalt invest for retirement no matter how young you are.' The funny t...read more

by Thomas Howard Elliot

The sooner you start, the more you will potentially have when you are ready to stop working. The problem with saving for retirement is that as the value of our dollar decreases, the amount we are saving has to increase, o...read more

by Mark Murphy

When should someone start investing for retirement? Right now. Almost any investment counselor or website has a graph or chart showing you how much money you'd have at age 60, if you'd have begun saving in your early ...read more

by Bill Whitney

If you want to be sure that you have enough money to live on in your retirement years, I don't think that it is ever to early to start saving toward that end. There are some people that will hit it big in the stock market...read more

by Scott Holloway

There is no time like the present. You can never start investing too early for retirement or any other financial goal. The question is what can you afford to put away while maintaining the ability to pay the bills. Goin...read more

by William Bond

Investing at any age is important because you are building your assets and getting a larger and larger nest egg for your future retirement to live your dream. A recent study produced by Consumer Reports, found that the p...read more

by John P Cummings

As early as possible! Starting investing earlier allows you to take advantage of the most magical investment concept known to man compound interest. Compound interest occurs when the interest you earn generates interest ...read more

by Gordon Sies

Youth wasted on the young? I think not. If you are young and intelligent. I am 18 and consider myself intelligent; I've started to invest. 25 is the ideal age to start investing, but 18? I have a seven year advantage o...read more

by Juan Leer

When should you start saving and investing for retirement? Well, right now would be good. "The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest." - Albert Einstein Basically, the sooner you start, the longer ...read more

by Dhammapiya

There is no straight and fast rule of when is a proper time to invest for retirement. However, the earlier we start, the better it is. As Albert Einstein had spoken before in his live, Compounding is one of the wonders in ...read more

by T.C Leonard

Immediately, if not sooner! In fact, I would recommend that a person should start thinking about retirement long before his or her first "real" job. For example, a sixteen year-old working at McDonald's in the evening sh...read more

by Gregory Wallis Ii

When should someone start investing for retirement? As soon as you are employed with someone that offers a 401K plan or you are working for a living and no longer continuing your education on a full time basis is the best ...read more

by Sub Urban

The safest, with possible high revenues is to invest into life insurance,(of course it is lot better if You are healthy at the moment and didn't had any major disseases or accidents) I recommend to invest right in couple ...read more

by Miss D Charnia

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 e...read more

by Rosaire Bachand

Even most upper-income households worry about retirement income Not having enough money for retirement is the number one financial worry of Americans. This is according to Gallup's annual Personal Finance poll, updated ...read more

by Paul Marconi

As we have seen, investing as early as possible is the best course of action. Like the lottery, "You've got to be in to win". Early investing takes advantage of a wonderful phenomenon called compounding interest. Compoun...read more

by Sara Collins

If you haven't started already, start today. I began saving for my retirement when I was 16 years old. I am only saving 5% of my income in an investment for retirement, but as an 18 year old high school student, I have a...read more

by Anita Peterson

Gifting a Start-up Retirement Roth IRA I have a 24 year old married grandson who is also a father. He is very responsible and has spoken to me many times about retirement investing but like most young people trying to ...read more

by janesparklers

When to start investing for retirement. Is as soon as you get your first full time job. It is never to early to start investing in your retirement. My husband started later in life. That is because he gets good pension. Th...read more

by Helen Yeo

As early as you can. Especially when you have started work and earning money. Plan your budget and know your average monthly expenses. That way, you know how much you can try to save each month/each year. Maybe you might n...read more