Why You Should Care About Predictive Medicine and Anti-Aging Science
Much of my professional background has been focused around the healthcare industry and I find the fields of...
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Retirement Planning
Living at a level of comfort you’re used to when you retire requires taking steps to ensure that you have enough money. Retirement planning involves examining your goals for retirement, and then figuring how much you need to meet those objectives. You need to figure-out when to start investing and saving, how much you need to save, and what you may expect to receive from other sources such as Social Security. Retirement objectives, costs and resources are issues you need to take stock of before you quit working. Otherwise, you may find that you can’t afford to stop working.
80 Percent of Americans Not Prepared for Retirement
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One of the world's leading employee benefit consulting companies, Hewitt, released results of a study indicating that 80 percent of Americans are expected to fall short of meeting their financial needs during retirement.
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TIAA-CREF CEO Urges Focus on Retirement Income Rather than Wealth Accumulation
TIAA-CREF CEO Roger W. Ferguson recently wrote a piece encouraging policymakers and consumers to think about reframing retirement planning. Ferguson urges readers to focus on the primary objective of a stable stream of retirement income that lasts throughout retirement rather than wealth accumulation.
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Salvaging Retirement
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Wall Street Journal columnist Brett Arends wrote a recent piece (subscription required) titled "How to Salvage Your Retirement."
As is almost always the case with Arends, a very interesting and worthwhile piece.
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National Retirement Risk Index
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The National Retirement Risk Index is available through the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
The Index is intended to show the share of American households that are at risk of not being able to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement.
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