I’m out of debt, now what? 35 resources for building wealth.

Rather than my typical weekend roundup, I thought I’d do something a bit different this week.

For whatever reason, the majority of personal finance blogs cater primarily to the struggling-to-get-out-of-debt audience. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s an important topic, and it benefits multitudes of people.

But what about everybody who’s already out of debt–or who never had any debt to begin with? Where should they (we) turn for quality financial information?

In an effort to answer that question, I’ve compiled a list of several of my all-time favorite wealth-building-related articles from around the personal finance blogosphere.

Arranged (roughly) in order from most basic to most advanced:

The Absolute Basics

Investment Accounts: IRAs and 401k’s

IRAs: Roth and The Other Kind
Should I invest in my Roth IRA or 401k?
For self-employed taxpayers: SEP vs. SIMPLE vs. Keogh

Index funds win.

Buy & Hold, or Time the Market?

Asset Allocation

College Funding

What is a 529?
Finding the best 529 plans.
Why we send our kids to expensive colleges
For Canadian Investors: RESP (Registered Education Savings Plan) reference

Insurance

Behavioral Finance

Financial Systems

Retirement Planning

Estate Planning

Keeping Everything in Perspective

As always, thanks to everybody for reading.

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ABCs of Investing June 6, 2009 at 12:38 pm: Thanks for the links – looks like a great list of articles.
Mark Wolfinger June 6, 2009 at 1:58 pm: Under insurance, add “Insuring your stock market portfolio”

Obviously, I’d like my blog to be the corresponding link.

Best regards,
Mark
Rob Bennett June 6, 2009 at 4:33 pm: I liked the one called “Investing Mistakes Explained Visually.”

I believe that people take in information only after they have been exposed to it numerous times. Saying something many times doesn’t do any good after awhile because the mind ignores arguments which it has heard before. So I think that a visual “attack” can do a good job of working under the radar.

Rob
Jeff Rose June 6, 2009 at 5:38 pm: Thanks for the mentions! Good roundup. Also, appreciate the comments on Advisor Blogger. Much appreciated
Monevator June 7, 2009 at 9:26 am: What a list – you’re going to be doing us all out of blogging, this pretty much covers the lot. Very pleased you felt my post worth including in such company…
Matt Jabs June 7, 2009 at 10:16 pm: I appreciate you covering this topic! Like you said, most PF bloggers write primarily on debt reduction topics, myself included!

I’m eagerly anticipating the day when I can write more on wealth growth and less on debt destruction (another year or so)!

Nice post, thanks for your hard work in putting it together.