Category: Retirement
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Top 10 Retirement Spots for Job Seekers
US News & World Report recently took a look at the best cities for job-seeking retirees and came up with a top ten list that’s sure to find some interest. As retirement accounts dwindle, the prospect of going back to work isn’t appealing but sometimes a necessary step. US News took a look at a…
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Tip’d Launches
Tipd, financial news, a social media money site I wrote about a scant few weeks ago, has exited beta with a few new features, including one that will make most bloggers smile – straight HTML links from published stories. For bloggers, links are the currency of the internet and it’s great to see Tipd offering…
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Retirement Health Care Fund
WSJ published a story late August, prior to the latest stock market collapse, for near-retirees and the first item on the list was to establish a “health-care fund.” If you are still considering retirement (some have decided to defer retirement for a year or two to make up for the retirement fund shortfall, this is…
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Kiplinger & AALTCI: Long-Term Care Phone-In Days
I recently received this email from a PR person for Kiplinger’s informing me of a free service Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine and the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance is offering. In these tough economic times, guarding your nest egg is more important than ever. What could be the greatest threat to your retirement plans?…
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3 Quick Ways To Save Money
If you’re in or near retirement, the performance of the stock market probably has you rattled – that’s perfectly normal. The best thing you can do is reduce your expenses as much as possible so that you can let your investments, those investments that have lost quite a bit of value, stay in your accounts…
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Retirees Need To Lower Investment Expectations
There’s nothing like taking 20% or 30% off portfolio values to really put the concept of risk into focus. This story about a cardiac surgeon is a positive one as it shows how one person recognized the volatility of the markets from the dot-com bubble burst in 2000 – 2002, and was positioned well during…
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Working Retirees
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that employees aged 50 or over now make up 28% of the U.S. workforce and that, by 2016, that proportion will rise to 33.5%, or more than one in three. I was pretty amazed at those BLS statistics, that over a quarter of the U.S. workforce is over the…