Archive for 'Tools and Calculators' Category
Find The Shortest Airport Security Line
28 December 2006This is a random travel tip, but I wish I’d had it for the Christmas season. For those of you who travel regularly on business, it can be the difference between making your flight and missing it. There is a little tool created by the Transportation Security Administration that will let you find out the [...]
Social Security Benefits Calculator
27 December 2006Here’s a nice little online tool I ran across from the Social Security Administration: a calculator to tell you how much you’re going to get each month in social security. For the younger among us it’s not that useful, mainly because it’s such a crap-shoot as to whether or not it will be around, in [...]
Monthly Car Payment Calculator
20 August 2006Here’s a good calculator from Fox News Business: it’s for people considering buying a car who want to know what the payment will end up being. In general, you probably don’t want to be buying cars new anyway – it’s not the ideal way to spend your money there. The smart approach is usually to buy a car that’s [...]
Calculate How Long You’re Going To Live
14 August 2006From FiveCentNickel, who has a detailed post out with advice on whether you’re saving enough for retirement, I came across this nice calculator that gives you your rough life expectency based on your personal health history and your habits. That adds a little accuracy to the generic life expectency numbers I’ve discussed earlier here. It’s [...]
How do I calculate how long my money will last?
12 August 2006SmartMoney has an easy calculator up that will help you figure out the answer to that question for your retirement. It’s a little backward in that it really tells you how much money you’re going to be able to USE each year rather than how long it will last – but you can use it [...]
Portfolio Rebalancing Tool / Calculator
8 August 2006Having posted earlier mentioning rebalancing your portfolio, I just ran across this tool at CNN’s site to help you do just that. It’s called the Asset Allocation Wizard, and it helps you figure out what an ideal percentage of your portfolio should be in each kind of investment depending on when you want to actually [...]
Cost of Living Calculator for Planning a Move
8 August 2006Thinking about moving to a new city to take a job offer? Before you do, you should run your prospective salary through a cost of living calculator such as this one at CNN to see how much more you’ll need to make – or how much further your money will need to go. Different cities [...]
Financial Calculator for Deciding Whether to Buy or Lease a Car
6 August 2006From time to time I run across tools and calculators which are useful for anyone who is mathematically challenged and wants help making a financial decision. I’ll post them in the Tools and Calculators Category for easy access. This one comes from Fox News’ Personal Finance division. It’s a calculator for people looking to get [...]