💸 Money Cheat Sheet: Your Retirement & the Market

This week’s money mood: Retirement on my mind

Last week, we shared a roundup of the top questions we hear on investing in a downturn. But you may have noticed that we didn’t include any Q’s on a certain subset of investing: retirement. That’s because we get so many questions on navigating retirement savings in a bear market that we couldn’t resist the temptation to put them in their own roundup!

Investing is a long-term game, and for most of us, retirement is the longest investing goal we have. So fear not, check out the answers to your FAQs below, and march forth toward old-person-you on a beach with confidence.

Until next week,

Deedi Brown, she/her
Senior Editor

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Your top Q’s about retirement

Times (and markets) being what they are, you might have some concerns about your retirement savings. So we rounded up our advice to guide you through what to do (and not do) in a bear market.

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Have you adjusted your retirement contributions lately?

We asked over on Instagram. Here’s what you said:

BUMPED THEM UP

21%


REDUCED THEM		6%


KEPT THEM THE SAME		65%


PUT ‘EM ON HOLD		7%

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Whoomp! There it* is (*Another rate hike)

The Fed did it again — and by “it,” we mean “raised interest rates another 0.75%, as predicted.” Here’s what you need to know (and do) about it all.

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Any links in a (money) storm


•	We’re reminding you while we remind ourselves: Times are wild, automate your bills.
•	New research finds that 58% of people who don’t work with a financial planner feel anxious about money. (If that’s you, we know some great financial planners you could call. 😉)
•	Inflation’s up, interest rates are up, pay raises are (mostly) down. That means — shocker! — the pink tax is also hitting a lot harder than usual. Some good tips in this Shondaland article about it.
•	So are we heading into a recession, or what? Turns out experts are still split — and this DealBook breakdown is a great explainer on all the latest factors currently in play.
•	If you’re looking for ways to defend your budget against inflation, you could definitely do worse than this budget cooking TikTok series. 🍜

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💸 Money Cheat Sheet: Your Retirement & the Market

This week’s money mood: Retirement on my mind

Your top Q’s about retirement

Have you adjusted your retirement contributions lately?

Your dream retirement, sorted (via inbox??)

Whoomp! There it* is (*Another rate hike)

Upcoming live events 📅

Small $$ win of the week

Any links in a (money) storm

The best time to start investing for retirement is yesterday. (Today is good, too.)

This week’s newsletter was brought to you while celebrating maternity-friendly costumes in Hollywood. Forward it to your friends who would prefer to be in Middle Earth rn.

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