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Too Poor to Retire and Too Young to Die
At the wise age of 79, Dolores Westfall knows food shopping on an empty stomach is a fool’s errand. On her way to the grocery store last May, she pulled into the Town & Country Family Restaurant to...
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5 Retirement Planning Mistakes and How to Fix Them
The average 65-year-old man retiring this year can expect to have another 17 years of living in front of him, according to the National Institute on Aging. For a woman, that number jumps to 20 years....
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How Couples Can Make Smart Retirement Decisions Together
If you’re married or have a partner: Want to boost your chances of having a secure retirement? Interested in reducing some of the tension at home? Keen on avoiding an irreparable split? Then you should...
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3 Retirement Mistakes You Need to Stop Making Today
With Social Security only replacing a fraction of income, and pensions a rarity, it’s up to each of us to build our own retirement. However, mistakes are the potholes on the long road to retirement....
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4 ETFs to Keep You Invested After Retirement
Investing in stocks is the best way for most people to grow long-term wealth for things like retirement, and ETFs are a wonderful tool for many people. But investing shouldn’t stop just because you’ve...
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6 Retirement Strategies to Minimize Taxes and Preserve Your Nest Egg
You’ve spent decades building a retirement nest egg, and now your career has come to an end. You’ve used a variety of tax preferential savings vehicles, including employer sponsored retirement plans...
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The IRS Tax Law that’s Sweeping the U.S.
Obama and U.S. Banks Don’t Want You to Know About this IRS “Cheat Code”… That’s Not Stopping it From Sweeping the U.S… Here’s Why… Obama would like you to think that the ONLY way to save for...
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Retirement Living: Renters are Outpacing Homeowners
Don’t look now, but it’s getting harder for older Americans to hold on to a key piece of the American dream. Homeownership patterns are shifting for Americans over age 55, even as the senior...
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4 Presidential Candidates Who Want to Raise the Social Security Retirement Age
Retirees have a lot to look forward to these days — walks on the beach, time with the grandkids, and steady Social Security checks to help pay the bills. But a number of Republican candidates in this...
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5 Baby Boomer Retirement Trends
Baby boomers, the unusually large generation born between 1946 and 1964, are entering their retirement years and reinventing what it means to be retired. A recent Urban Institute data project examined...
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5 Potentially Major Threats to Your Retirement
Even if you’ve been diligently saving for retirement and have your money socked away in the right investments for your age, unforeseen problems can disrupt your careful planning. Threats to your...
View ArticleObama’s Social Security Bomb Detonates on April 30
Recent Changes to Your Retirement Benefits Reveal Washington’s Latest (And Desperate!) Attempt to Keep Social Security from Going Under… For years, married couples have used the “File and Suspend” and...
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5 Considerations When Retirement Planning for 2
Here’s a novel way to celebrate Valentine’s Day: Pull up two chairs at your kitchen table, pop a bottle of Champagne and start talking about retirement. What could be more romantic than planning for...
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3 Reasons to Own Stocks After Retirement
Once you retire, your investing priorities change. Certainty that your money will last at least as long as you do matters more than striving for the absolute highest possible returns. Since you’ll be...
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10 Things To Do Within 5 Years Of Retirement
Preparing for retirement is like getting ready for a trip — it never goes quite as planned. But the better the plan, the better the outcome. When things go wrong, you want to have the flexibility to...
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Outdated Retirement Advice You Should Avoid
Some things are timeless. They never go out of style. But the same can’t be said for retirement advice. Retirement today looks vastly different than it did for seniors of generations past. Workers now...
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The IRS Tax Law that’s Sweeping the U.S.
Obama and U.S. Banks Don’t Want You to Know About this IRS “Cheat Code”… That’s Not Stopping it From Sweeping the U.S… Here’s Why… Obama would like you to think that the ONLY way to save for...
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Tax Season Retirement Savings Strategies For Procrastinators
So you didn’t get around to saving for retirement in 2015? There’s still time, thanks to rules that give you a grace period into 2016 to make 2015 contributions to an IRA, a Roth IRA, and for those...
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Four Ways to Avoid Retirement Derailment
So many retirements are thrown off the rails these days that it’s difficult for millions of Americans to say “I know I will definitely retire this year.” They often give themselves a range of dates....
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The 15-Year Sprint to Retirement
Congratulations, you’re 50 years old! You made it to the half-century mark and it’s time to throw a big, honking birthday party. But do it quick, before your financial advisor yanks away the punch bowl...
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