When Working Couples Can't Get It Together On Retirement Plans
(Forbes) - Working couples have a lot on their mind, and retirement planning often gets short shrift. For one thing, they may have trouble agreeing on common goals, thus ending up agreeing...
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Here's How Wide the Retirement Gap Is Between Men and Women
(Bloomberg) - Men are short of a standard goal by $270,000. Women? Half a million dollars, according to a new report. So here's what you need to do: Just save a lot more while earning a....
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Retiring Early, Retiring Late, Retiring Penniless
(Forbes) - It’s not easy to surprise journalists like me who write about retirement. We’re jaded by surveys that repeatedly document how little Americans are saving and how many older workers...
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Making Retirement Money Last to 103: An Expert's Plan for Himself
(Bloomberg Business) - Americans worry about affording retirement, but that doesn't usually translate into hard-core financial planning. Then there's David Littell, the 61-year-old director of the retirement...
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3 steps to a safer retirement stash
(CNN Money) - If all you want to do is protect yourself from a market downturn, the answer is simple: Put your dough in FDIC-insured accounts. Even if stock prices go into a free fall, your principal...
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What's the best retirement advice you ever got?
(USA Today) - I never had the opportunity to get retirement advice from my dad. He died at 43, when I was only 16. He never even had a chance to experience retirement. I've often wondered what he would have...
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Careful planning can ease retirement's health costs
(CNBC) - The potential health-care costs during retirement can seem pretty daunting, but don't despair. According to a Fidelity Investments study, a 65-year-old couple in 2014 would have needed $220,000...
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