Almost everything you need to know to plan for retirement is available on the blog post by Joseph Hogue, author of the PeerFinance101 blog: 7 Retirement X-Factors for Your Nest Egg. It’s never as simple as accumulating X times your salary or other “rules of thumb.” Check out: http://peerfinance101.com/retirement-x-factors-how-much-need/ Source: Financial Planning for Women
Category: pre-retirement; retirement planning
Are you financially ready to retire?
Find out if you are financially ready to retire with the help of Walter Updegrave, writer for CNN Money. The article contains links to useful calculators to help answer the question. Set up and start living on a retirement spending plan, estimate your longevity (how long will retirement last?), and find out how likely it…
Test your Retirement Knowledge and Readiness
“How much do you know about planning for a long, financially secure retirement? Fidelity Investments recently prepared a two-part quiz that can help you answer that question. The first part concerns retirement savings and asks three key questions about how to put enough money away for a secure future.”“The second part of the quiz includes…
Many americans retire too early
Source: Financial Planning for Women
Planning to work instead of save for retirement?
Think again! 7 of every 10 workers in a recent poll claimed they just planned to keep on working… and working… and …. The reality is that about 3 in 10 retirees was forced to drop out of the workforce before they planned due to poor health, job loss/downsizing, or having to care for a…