Your Richest Life

  • Home
  • About
    • Start Here
    • Meet the Planner
    • Who We Serve
  • Services
    • Financial Plans
    • 401(k) & Retirement Plans for Small Businesses
    • Speaking
  • Press
  • Blog
    • Financial Planning
    • Tax
    • Insurance
    • Investing
    • Employee Benefits & Career
    • Retirement Planning
    • Student loans
    • Estate Planning
    • Kids
    • College Planning
    • Buying a Home
    • Selling a Home
  • Contact

As Featured In

You are here: Home / Archives for save for retirement

Should You Save for Retirement or Pay Off Student Loans?

August 29, 2018 By Katie Brewer

Save for retirement or pay off student loans

If you’ve got student loans outstanding, it’s a common predicament - should you pay off those loans as quickly as possible first, or save for retirement? The short answer is this: save for retirement, usually. You can't use a loan to pay for your retirement. But I’ll break that down and explain why that’s important, and when you might want to focus on paying off debt instead: Save for Continue Reading

Filed Under: Retirement, Retirement Planning, Student loans Tagged With: pay off loans or retirement, save for retirement, save money or pay loans, student loans

Let’s Connect!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

About Katie

Katie Brewer - Certified Financial Planner

Get Started

Clock • Source: Unsplash by petradr http://unsplash.com/post/68620380613/download-by-petradr • License: CC0 - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Katie is a Proud Member of …









Explore the Blog

Connect with Your Richest Life

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Katie Brewer, CFP® is a Dallas, Fort Worth, and online fee-only financial planner with over 15 years of experience. Her passion is helping clients get their financial lives in order to start living their richest lives.

Your Richest Life is a Fee-Only financial advisory firm providing honest and independent financial advice. Our clients, the members of Generations X and Y, have a different relationship with money than their parents did.

Disclosures and Forms

2025 ADV Part 2A and 2B (Firm Brochure)

Privacy Notice

Disclosures

Address:
500 N Central Expy, Ste 500, Plano, TX 75074

[footer_backtotop]

Copyright © 2025 Your Richest Life · Site built by Smarty Pants Media Solutions · Log in