Laurie Nelson / Mortgage Professional at Citizens Bank

More than a decade after the recession, we’re still understanding its impact in every part of our lives. Don’t let the recession haunt your investing dreams.

Check out these tips and tricks for ways to make saving for your retirement a more natural process.

Think about your retirement funds as three different buckets of money. This will help you identify and rank your priorities so that each bucket provides for a different need in retirement.

Avoid these seven retirement savings mistakes to make sure you stay on track for retirement.

The first 50 frugal changes you make will have a nice financial return. However, making more changes will have diminishing returns. Evaluate the limits of return for your situation to help you find the right balance between frugality and effort expended.