the Blog
What is a Trust and Living Will: How to Set Them Up, What's the difference?
How to Reach Financial Independence
Playing with FIRE Foreword
What is the Mega-Backdoor Roth Strategy?
Debt Snowball vs Debt Avalanche: The Showdown
Why Create an Emergency Fund?
Why Investment Fees Are the Silent Sneaky Stalking Sinister Assassins of Wealth
Personal Capital: The Best Money Tracking App For FIRE?
Should I Refinance My Mortgage?
How to Pay Off Student Loans Fast on Your Path to FIRE
Can Taking Out a Personal Loan Help You Reach FI Faster?
It’s time to take action
Is Playing with FIRE on Netflix?
FIRE Email Kit
Director’s Take: Why I Made a Documentary About FIRE
Why We Love Chautauqua and You Will Too
Meet our Director: Travis Shakespeare
Mustachianism Goes Mobile
A Letter to You
Now that you’ve calculated your time horizon to financial independence, we strongly encourage you to start tracking your money. We believe that Personal Capital is the most comprehensive free financial tool you can find online to manage your finances and track towards your FI date.
We love the free features Personal Capital offers, including the ability to:
- Track and manage your income and expenses
- Track your net worth
- Analyze your investment portfolios for excessive fees (this is especially important early on in your FI journey)
- Analyze your investment portfolios for proper asset allocation
- Run various retirement planning calculations with their amazing retirement calculators
Our favorite financial management tool is free to use and take less than a minute to sign up. Though you must create Personal Capital login credentials to use them, you don't need to enroll in Personal Capital's advisory service. As you may know, we always try to avoid fees whenever possible. We also strongly recommend fee-only financial advisors, so you know how much you're paying up front and avoid advice with conflicts of interest. By signing up with Personal Capital for free and aggregating all your accounts in one place, you'll be well on your way toward financial independence.