Is Your 401(k) Balance Higher or Lower Than the Average 40-Year-Old's?
The average 401(k) balance for savers aged 40 is $120,100 (as of mid-2026), per Fidelity.
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The average 401(k) balance for savers aged 40 is $120,100 (as of mid-2026), per Fidelity.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
There isn’t a single savings number that guarantees you’re ready to retire, but you can gauge retirement readiness by stress-testing (1) the “4% test,” (2) how your nest egg compares with common retirement targets, and (3) when you can access your money without early-withdrawal penalties.
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Buffett said in 2012 that if he could buy thousands of single-family homes at once and finance them with “very, very low” mortgage rates, he would “load up,” and he tied the opportunity to low prices driven by weak consumer confidence.
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Households headed by people aged 65–74 now carry about $45,000 in debt on average, and households 75+ carry about $36,000—figures that quadrupled and rose from under $5,000, respectively, between 1992 and 2022.
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Shaquille O’Neal said the key concept he used to preserve his fortune was learning “annuity.”
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Northwestern Mutual’s 2024 survey found 38% of Gen Z expect to receive an inheritance, while 22% of boomers expect to leave one behind, even though half of respondents said an inheritance would be critical to long-term financial security.
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By the end of the 2026 filing season, the IRS issued $296 billion in taxpayer refunds—$43 billion more than in the comparable period a year earlier, a 17% jump.
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Robert Kiyosaki argues you shouldn’t avoid debt and says, in real estate, “the more debt I use on real estate the less tax I pay.”
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Workers’ compensation payments are excluded from Social Security’s retirement earnings test because they replace injury-related lost wages, not pay for work performed, so they don’t trigger withholding of a retirement check.
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Social Security benefits at 62 can be as high as $2,572 per month (vs a claimed $3,000), and miscalculating that by $428 per month could mean about $5,000 less in annual income.
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Fidelity says the number of 401(k) millionaires reached 645,000 in early 2026, up 26% from the year before, as millennials increasingly enter the group.
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Philip Morris International’s quarterly dividend is $1.47 per share ($5.88 annually) after an 8.9% increase in September 2025, while Altria’s quarterly dividend is $1.06 per share ($4.24 annually) after a 3.9% increase announced in August 2025.
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Johnson & Johnson raised its quarterly dividend to $1.34 in April 2026—$5.36 per year—for a 3.1% increase and a 64th straight year of dividend growth.
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Badger Meter increased its quarterly dividend by 10% to $0.44 per share (from $0.40) on August 14, 2026, extending its 34th consecutive year of annual dividend growth and bringing the annualized payout to $1.76.
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Kimberly-Clark raised its quarterly dividend to $1.28 per share in January 2026 (from $1.26), bringing the annual payout to $5.12 and implying a roughly 4.6% yield on a stock price near $110.
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The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield jumped to 5.29%—its highest level since 2007—driving up borrowing costs for homebuyers, businesses, and the federal government.
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Bankrate research found that in 2025, 87% of borrowers chose a more expensive mortgage than they needed to, costing the typical borrower an extra $3,343 annually and $78,186 over the loan term.
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A healthy, nonsmoking 30-year-old woman paid an average of $23.10 per month for a $500,000, 20-year term policy in October 2025, versus $408 per month for a comparable $500,000 whole life policy—nearly 18 times more.
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VanEck’s Pharma ETF (PPH) pays a 1.9% trailing-12-month dividend yield versus State Street’s Biotech ETF (XBI) at a 0.4% yield.
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