Personal Finance News Friday 5/17

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How to get your financial house in order by age 30

Anne Godlasky, @annieisi, USA TODAY

New wrinkles. Pressure to procreate. And what have you checked off your bucket list lately? Turning 30 can be stressful, even before thinking about personal financial goals and how to achieve them.

Adults 34 and younger grade themselves worse than any other age group in their personal finance knowledge, with 48% giving themselves a C or lower, according to a survey by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Financial planners say that needs to change. Millennials have a lot to do to get their house in order.

"I think every birthday you check your credit score and your weight, and one should be going up, and one should be coming down," says Jean Chatzky, 48, a personal finance expert whose Money School webinars launched last month. "People around 30 are under more pressures than any prior generation," she says, citing "tremendous" student loan debt, "stagnant" wages, the burst housing bubble and the burden of retirement and health care costs moving increasingly from employers to individuals.

In fact, the average net worth of those under 40 in 2010 was 7% below that of people in the same age range in 1983, the Urban Institute reported in March.

"Thirty today isn't what 30 was a few decades ago. It could mean single and 30, or married with children," says Megan Rindskopf, 26, a certified financial planner with ClearView Wealth Management in Charlotte. "I think the biggest issue for people in this age range is knowing how best to deal with competing priorities. A lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck. This is kind of the age where you feel you need to grow up."


To read the entire article from Anne Godlasky, @annieisi, USA TODAY:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/05/15/millennials-savings/2066965/


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