Have you ever thought about how many more years you have to work? For someone in their mid-20s, you could have a long way to go considering the official retirement age is 65. That’s forty more years of working in a job you may not love, or forty more years of being obligated to show…
Retirement Planning Articles
The Freelancer’s Guide to Saving For Retirement
As a freelancer, you have full and total control over your work. You decide what you do, where you do it, and how you get things done. The freedom and autonomy are attract many workers to self-employment in the first place. But if you already freelance, you know this line of work doesn’t come without a…
When Your Biggest Financial Goal Gets Real: What to Think About Before You Retire
When you were in your 20s and 30s, retirement seemed like a distant dream. But now that you’re in your 40s or 50? It sure looks a lot closer, and it’s fast approaching. To make your retirement the best experience possible – and to enjoy the lifestyle you want once you step out of your…
Are Mini-Retirements Right For You?
With pensions dying out and the responsibility to save enough in your working years to pay for decades of life without a paycheck squarely on workers’ shoulders, the traditional idea of retirement may no longer be realistic for most. That might not be a bad thing, though. Working full-time until 65 or 70 years old, then…
The Importance of Incorporating Your Retirement Accounts in Your Estate Plan
You know you need to do some estate planning to properly protect yourself, your assets, and your loved ones. But is your plan complete, or did you leave a few key assets out of those documents by mistake? Most people are unaware that retirement accounts are an important estate plan component. Fewer still understand the…
Low Average Retirement Savings By Age: What To Do About It
If you look at the average retirement savings by age, you might find them alarming. You may even come to the conclusion that Americans are facing a pretty dire situation. Just take a look at the median retirement savings of families by age, reported by CNBC: 44 to 49: $6,200 50 to 55: $8,000 56 to…
How Remarrying Late in Life Could Affect Your Social Security
The Social Security Administration uses many factors to calculate benefit amounts for beneficiaries, including marital status. For long-married couples who are lucky enough to grow old together, calculations for spousal and survivor benefits are fairly straightforward. However, widowed or divorced Social Security beneficiaries can run into complications if they decide to remarry later in life….
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