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How to know you’re on track with your retirement savings, according to a financial expert

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Investing money for retirement can be daunting, especially since it’s common for future retirees to worry about whether or not they’ll have enough money to last them through their golden years. ...
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Just 1 in 3 Americans understands this crucial component of planning smartly for retirement — and that lack of knowledge could prove very costly

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Are you sure you’re ready to retire? No, really … are you sure? Although some 73% of American workers say they’re on track for a comfortable lifestyle in ...
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Doing Your Retirement Income Planning in the Right Order Matters

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For all sorts of activities, doing things in the right order matters. We mostly talk about the process of retirement income planning, but the order of retirement income planning is important. To ...
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Protecting Retirement Portfolios in a Bear Market

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According to a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, over a quarter of retirees are spending more than they can afford due to the pressures of inflation and a ...
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4 Ways Taxes Could Burst Your Retirement Bubble (and What to Do About Them)

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When people think about retirement planning, they tend to put their focus on saving and investing so they have a nice nest egg when they quit working. And ...
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How To Build Your Own Retirement Paycheck

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As the CEO of a company whose mission is to help people secure retirement, I am obsessed with the unintended consequences of retirement planning and advice that focuses ...
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To Plan Your Retirement, Look Beyond The Online Income Calculators

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We’ve all heard the problems with relying on numbers: garbage in, garbage out; liars figure, and figures lie; 87.2% of statistics are made up; and so forth. Yet ...
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7 Big Retirement Risks to Avoid

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The biggest difference between yesterday’s retiree vs. today’s is the diminished defined benefit — or pension — plan replaced by defined contribution plans with ERISA of 1974(opens in new ...
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IRS: These are your 401(k) and IRA contribution limits for 2023

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It may be time to up your 401(k) contributions. The IRS is increasing the limit by $2,000 for 2023, the agency announced Friday. Cost of living adjustments will ...
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Three Numbers You Need to Know Before You Retire

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One of the more confounding issues that pre-retirees must wrap their head around is how to create a growing stream of income from their savings after their paycheck ...
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