March 30, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Saving Money, Investing, Retirement – 401(k)
Top your spring to-do list with an IRA tuneup — before you sharpen the lawnmower blades and scrub up the the barbecue grill.
Add your comment
March 28, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Retirement Advice
As my colleague Aaron Crowe pointed out in December, financial sites looking for some press coverage often generate lists; in this case, the best and worst states for retirement.
At that time, he reported on a study on this topic by MoneyRates.com. Recently another site, TopRetirements.com did a similar list, results below.
March 22, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Saving Money, Retirement – 401(k)
Just because you don’t have a 401(k) at work doesn’t mean you can’t (or shouldn’t) save for retirement. There are many tools for putting money in the cookie jar and earmarking it for your old age that aren’t reserved for those with a workplace retirement savings plan. Here are five ways to set up and manage your own, employer-free retirement savings plan. (Continue the story…)
March 16, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Mortgages, Retirement – 401(k), Retirement Advice
Retirement confidence surveys remind me of Chicken Little. You remember her. She gathered a long line of followers who believed her warning that the sky is falling. Ultimately, she and her followers were so distracted by their fears that the fox led them to his den and something far worse than something falling out of the sky happened to them.
March 10, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Saving Money, Retirement – 401(k), Retirement Advice
We are witnessing what could be a watershed moment when it comes to planning for a secure retirement.
March 1, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Saving Money, Tax, Tax – Credit
Being old and poor doesn’t sound like much fun. Here’s what you need to know to avoid that fate — or get help if you can’t.
February 26, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Health, Wealth, Retirement Advice
Talking to your parents about growing old and their plans for the future is hard to do. After all, they still remember changing your diapers. What could you possibly know that they don’t?
February 25, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Wealth, Investing, Retirement – 401(k)
Retirement savers are back on track after the 2008 stock market downturn, according to a report from Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest provider of workplace retirement savings plans.
February 23, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Tax, Wealth
This isn’t an ugly mother-in-law story. Actually, I loved my mother-in-law, and her death at 85 was painful — far more painful than it really needed to be because she hated to talk about what she considered her personal affairs — especially when it involved money. And the rest of us didn’t want to bring up the subject either. Honestly, I would rather have asked her about her sex life than explore what she intended to do with the cash she had spent her lifetime squirreling away.
Death snuck up on my mother-in-law. On New Year’s Eve, she was out with eight of her widowed friends until after 1 a.m. and 15 days later, we held the funeral service. For at least the next six months, we’re going to be sorting through the confusion, trying to decide what Mom would have wanted.
February 22, 2011
Filed under: Retirement, Tax, Wealth
This isn’t an ugly mother-in-law story. Actually, I loved my mother-in-law and her death at 85 was painful — far more painful than it really needed to be because she hated to talk about what she considered her personal affairs — especially when it involved money. And the rest of us didn’t want to bring up the subject either. Honestly, I would rather have asked her about her sex life than explore what she intended to do with the cash she had spent her lifetime squirreling away.
Death snuck up on my mother-in-law. On New Year’s Eve she was out with eight of her widowed friends until after 1 a.m. and 15 days later, we held the funeral service. For at least the next six months, we’re going to be sorting through the confusion, trying to decide what Mom would have wanted.