My Retirement Blog

My Retirement Blog

  • What If Everything You Thought You Knew About Retirement Planning Turned Out to Be Wrong?

    The following is a guest post. I’m not joking. I recently authored a Google Knol with an exceedingly strange title — “The First Retirement Calculator That Gets the Numbers Right.” It’s about a calculator that I developed the contains something that no existing calculator does — an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on…

  • Building a Retirement Nest Egg

    The following is a guest post. For many young adults, planning for retirement is something that is not necessarily in the forefront of things. In fact, a large number of these individuals tend to take this for granted with the belief that there will always be time for this later on in life. Reports show…

  • Book Giveaway Winner

    The random winner of the book, Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market is Darin. If you didn’t win keep checking back because there will be more contests in the future. I will be…

  • Social Security Reform Ideas

    When it comes to the Social Security system, the only absolute facts are that changes must be made to keep it solvent. With the arrival of retirement age for the baby boom generation, the system will have two workers for every retiree by 2030; currently there are 3.2 workers per retiree paying into the system.…

  • New Thesis Theme Installed

    There were some quirks in the old theme such as the comments link not showing up until after someone left a comment. Since I already useThe Thesis Theme for WordPress on my other blogs I decided to install it here as well. I still have a lot of customization to do but the site looks…

  • Book Giveaway: Why are We So Clueless About the Stock Market?

    This week’s book giveaway is for the book, Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market. The purpose of this book is to help readers understand the basics of stock market investing. Material covered includes…

  • Does Diversification Protect Your Retirement Savings?

    The following is a guest post. The investment industry has done a wonderful job convincing people that diversification is a no-brainer. Who can argue that it is prudent to put all your eggs in one basket? However, is diversification really protecting you or is it protecting your broker or financial advisor? Warren Buffett, the greatest…

  • Catch-Up Retirement Savings Options for Late Starters

    If you have not saved enough money for retirement you have plenty of company.  I wrote a little while back noting that most Americans are unprepared for retirement.  Many people don’t get serious about starting their retirement savings until their in their late 40s or even their 50s.  Of course, it is better to start…

  • Retirement Article Roundup

    Since I have been too lazy to write my own posts for this blog lately I thought I would share with you a few retirement related posts from the past couple Carnival of Personal Finance and elsewhere. “How to select the right IRA beneficiary” from Wealth Pilgrim.  He basically says the youngest beneficiary is the…

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