How Much to Save for Your Financial Goals

How Much to Save for Your Financial Goals

From Motley Fool Money by The Motley Fool

June 6, 2026 · 26 min

About this episode

The episode discusses prioritizing financial goals and tools for financial planning.

It’s Month 6 of our 2026 Financial Planning Challenge! In this installment, Fools Robert Brokamp and Stephanie Marini suggest ways to prioritize and quantify your financial goals, and highlight some tools that will help you crunch the numbers. Also in this episode:-A recent study finds that taxes can take more than a third of your investment over the long term-According to a Wall Street Journal analysis, the five largest home insurers didn’t pay out on more than 44% of claims last year, up from 36% a decade earlier-The share of national income attributable to corporate profits is at an all-time high-Visit Fool.com/calculators, Dinkytown.net, or Calculator.net to find tools that can quantify and solve just about any financial conundrum Host: Robert Brokamp, CFP®, EAGuest: Stephanie Marini, CFP®, CRPC®Engineer: Bart Shannon Disclosure: Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. The Motley Fool and its affiliates (collectively, “TMF”) do not endorse, recommend, or verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements made within advertisements. TMF is not involved in the offer, sale, or solicitation of any securities advertised herein and…

People in this episode

Host: Robert Brokamp

Guest: Stephanie Marini

Topics covered

  • financial planning
  • investment strategies
  • tax implications
  • insurance claims
  • corporate profits

Keywords

  • financial goals
  • investment
  • taxes
  • insurance
  • corporate profits
  • financial tools

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Organizations: The Motley Fool, Wall Street Journal, Fool.com, Dinkytown.net, Calculator.net

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