Tip! By starting your retirement planning now (not later!), you can gauge how much money you will need to maintain your current lifestyle and where this money will come from. Many people, especially those who have just started working, always put their retirement planning on the back burner for reasons such as �I just started work� and �Oh, I am still young�.

As a college student, have you ever thought about investing for your retirement? Although it may seem too early to even think about retirement, especially since you probably haven’t even started your career yet, it just might be a good idea. In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, serious questions have been raised about social security system in our country. It seriously dented credibility of the world’s only super power to deal with its own people seeking help. It showed how elder people are more vulnerable to such disasters than the young ones as they lost their entire livelihood and are back to square in the twilight of their lives. They cannot rejoin the work force to earn what they lost. The whole situation emphasized the importance of personal savings.

Why to save and why to start it early

The most potent question is why to save in today’s plastic society. We can credit on finger tips, jobs market is decent and social security is still functioning. The answer is the society won’t remain the same, the economy won’t remain the same and certainly our priorities won’t remain the same. Let’s try to peek into future and analyze what are factors which will play their part in our decision making.

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