Newly married and looking for finance tips. We have setup a joint account to manage joint expenses and that’s about it. What other things we need to think through?

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A few tools you might need -
1. Splitwise (this keeps a track of major expenses and how much the split should be). Airfares, hotel bookings, etc
2. Get a credit card and add the other person as authorized user. This is a good time to get some of the fancier credit cards and get all the spending on it to make full use of the bonus and annual fee. Putting joint expenses on the joint CC makes it far far easier to keep track of things.
3. Have a finance conversation. Bring all the sources of income to the table, talk about all the expected expenses and see as a unit how healthy the finances look. Set goals, budgets, etc and track them on a monthly basis. Personal capital is a great tool for this.
4. Some couples also use joint investing as a fun way to save more . Savings from joint account can go directly to brokerage like fidelity or a robo investor and you can build a portfolio based on investments that both of you like.

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