My Retirement Blog
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Five Stages: Liberation
TheStreet.com, with AgeWave, Harris Interactive, and Ameriprise Financial, conducted a survey in 2005 in which they identified the emotional aspects of retirement and found similarities with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ On Death and Dying, which outlines the five stages of dying. It’s kind of creepy but the analogy is a useful one. The third stage of retirement?…
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Five Stages: Anticipation
TheStreet.com, with AgeWave, Harris Interactive, and Ameriprise Financial, conducted a survey in 2005 in which they identified the emotional aspects of retirement and found similarities with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ On Death and Dying, which outlines the five stages of dying. It’s kind of creepy but the analogy is a useful one. The second stage of retirement?…
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95th Festival of Frugality
My Retirement Blog is honored to host this week’s Festival of Frugality as the 95th edition finds its home here for the first time. Without much ado, here is the festival: Gems of the Week Alison presents Under the Weather and Over the Counter, a review of meds and how the generics will often do…
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Five Stages: Imagination
TheStreet.com, with AgeWave, Harris Interactive, and Ameriprise Financial, conducted a survey in 2005 in which they identified the emotional aspects of retirement and found similarities with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ On Death and Dying, which outlines the five stages of dying. It’s kind of creepy but the analogy is a useful one. The first stage of retirement?…
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Special Bank Offers for Seniors
Some banks offer special bank offers for seniors such as reduced costs, increased interest rates, and favorable fee structures that may or may not be better than traditional offers. For example, the most basic “senior account” is a simple checking account that has no monthly maintenance fee. It’s a way for banks to court the…
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120th Carnival of Personal Finance
Wow… the Carnival of Personal Finance has hit its 120th edition and My Retirement Blog was tapped to celebrate its centennial and a fifth, having a carnival go this long is pretty amazing when you consider so many have come and gone. This one is a bit of a doozy, with a ton of submissions,…
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What Is A Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association?
Chances are you’ve heard of how GM and the United Auto Workers Union reached an agreement a day after the UAW struck and one of the components of that deal was the creation of a Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association. I’m not sure if this is a benefit to the UAW or GM but both seem…
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Four Annuity Fees : Insurance, Investment, Riders, and Surrender
Walter Updegrave has a great article out about how the SEC should force annuities to disclose all their fees in plain language, not the billion page prospectus they send and expect you to totally ignore. Anyway, a great part of the article is when he writes about the four types of fees associated with an…
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AHM Seeks To Seize Employee Retirement Savings
The story of American Home Mortgage is a pretty sad one, it is a Melville, NY based mortgage company that fell on hard times because of the sub-prime implosion and is now ripping itself apart to pay its over one thousand creditors (many of which will see nothing). Now AHM is trying to seize the…
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