Retirement

Retirement Questions That Have Nothing to Do With Money

Retirement Questions That Have Nothing to Do With Money Think about these matters before you leave work for the last time.  Retirement planning is not entirely financial. Your degree of happiness in your “second act” may depend on some factors you cannot quantify. Here are a few of those factors as well as the questions they may end up provoking in your mind.  Where will you live? This is a major factor in retirement happiness. If you can surround yourself [...]

By |2018-08-24T11:33:17-04:00August 23rd, 2018|Personal Finance, Retirement|Comments Off on Retirement Questions That Have Nothing to Do With Money

How Retirement Spending Changes with Time

How Retirement Spending Changes With Time Once away from work, your cost of living may rise before it falls.  New retirees sometimes worry that they are spending too much, too soon. Should they scale back? Are they at risk of outliving their money? This concern is legitimate. Many households “live it up” and spend more than they anticipate as retirement starts to unfold. In ten or twenty years, though, they may not spend nearly as much.1 The initial stage of [...]

By |2018-07-17T12:36:02-04:00July 17th, 2018|Retirement, Saving & Budgeting|Comments Off on How Retirement Spending Changes with Time

Annuities for Retirement Income

Annuities for Retirement Income Why seniors choose them, and what prospective annuity holders should consider.    Imagine an income stream you cannot outlive. That sums up the appeal of an annuity. If you are interested in steady retirement income (and the potential to defer taxes), you might want to look at the potential offered by annuities. Before making the leap, however, you must understand how they work. Just what is an annuity? It is an income contract you arrange with [...]

By |2018-06-29T12:31:13-04:00June 22nd, 2018|Retirement, Savings and Investing|Comments Off on Annuities for Retirement Income

Catch Up on Retirement Saving

Catching Up on Retirement Saving If you are starting at or near 50, consider these ideas. Do you fear you are saving for retirement too late? Plan to address that anxiety with some positive financial moves. If you have little saved for retirement at age 50 (or thereabouts), there is still much you can do to generate a fund for your future and to sustain your retirement prospects. Contribute and play catch-up. This year’s standard contribution limit for an IRA [...]

By |2018-06-08T11:28:01-04:00May 17th, 2018|Retirement, Savings and Investing|Comments Off on Catch Up on Retirement Saving

A Retirement Gender Gap

A Retirement Gender Gap Why a middle-class woman may end up less ready to retire than a middle-class man.  What is the retirement outlook for the average fifty-something working woman? As a generalization, less sunny than that of a man in her age group. Most middle-class retirees get their income from three sources. An influential 2016 National Institute on Retirement Security study called them the “three-legged stool” of retirement. Social Security provides some of that income, retirement account distributions some [...]

By |2018-06-01T11:26:45-04:00May 3rd, 2018|Retirement, Savings and Investing|Comments Off on A Retirement Gender Gap
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