Get fall-ready with budgeting tips and strategies for diversifying your investment portfolio to achieve financial goals.
How can you reset your finances for fall and prepare for the holiday season? Can you grow an undiversified investment portfolio by $28,000 over seven years without additional contributions? Hosts Sean Pyles and Sara Rathner discuss seasonal budgeting and investment diversification to help you understand how to effectively manage your money during the fall season and optimize your investment strategies for long-term growth. They begin with a discussion of preparing your finances for fall, with tips and tricks on reviewing your summer spending, adjusting savings goals for the holidays, and early holiday planning.
Then, Smart Money cohost Elizabeth Ayoola joins Sean and Sara to help answer a listener’s question about how they can diversify their investment portfolio to reach a savings goal of $28,000 over four years. They discuss the importance of mitigating risks through diversification, real-life cautionary tales of emotional attachment to investments, and the complexities of assessing stock performance.
Use NerdWallet’s free investment calculator to estimate how much your investments or savings will compound over time, based on factors like how much you plan to save or invest, your initial deposit and your expected rate of return: https://www.nerdwallet.com/calculator/investment-calculator
In their conversation, the Nerds discuss: fall financial strategies, smart portfolio management, resetting your finances, mastering investment diversification, smart investing tips, fall financial check-up, portfolio diversification, preparing your wallet for autumn, investing wisely, seasonal budgeting, creating a balanced portfolio, assessing financial goals, holiday season financial planning, estimating investment growth, long-term portfolio growth, familiarity bias, emotional attachment to investments, stock performance assessment, avoiding investment pitfalls, financial success, fall budgeting tips, early holiday planning, holiday travel arrangements, financial stability, open enrollment, healthcare options, beneficiary designations, and retirement accounts.
To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email podcast@nerdwallet.com.
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