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Critical Ages in Retirement Planning

Effective retirement planning involves years of savings to accumulate a nest-egg for your retirement yrs. The Congress, by way of tax laws, promotes tax advantaged retirement savings equally for businesses and individuals; but it has rules you need to follow. these tax laws prescribe key ages – to frustrate early use of those retirement savings and then forces their use [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - December 10, 2011 at 7:17 pm

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Plan for Retirement: Retirement Options for Income

As soon as the sluggish economy recuperates, a possible labor shortage might cause employers to entice their experienced employees to not retire or to come out of retirement. While such a scenario seems not likely with unemployment near 9%, but demographics make the US ripe for a labor shortage and ripe for a plan for retirement that might include earning [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - December 9, 2011 at 10:19 pm

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Survey Shows Retirement Money Isn’t What Retirees Expected

These soon to be retired may discover some recent survey data useful. The survey of 2,000 individuals retired within the past two to six years revealed that new retirees are a money-worried, cash-strapped group, and dependent on Social Security mainly because they have inadequate retirement money. This may come as no surprise but there are lessons to be learned. Yet, [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - December 4, 2011 at 6:28 pm

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Factors that Determine the Value of Your Retirement Funds

Can I maintain a decent income through my retirement? That’s the worry of most retirees. Let’s obtain a point of view on what you have to manage. Your retirement funds – apart from any retirement work you do – comes from the big three: social security benefits, pension programs (if you have any), as well as your retirement investments (e.g. [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - December 3, 2011 at 8:27 pm

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A fixed Term SPIA Makes Great Retirement Financial Sense

A guaranteed revenue may lower your retirement financial pressure and allow you a less-panicked strategy to retirement investing. Without any pension, you may be relying on Social Security as the solely guaranteed retirement income stream. Buying a life annuity may assure that additional revenue and makes excellent retirement financial sense in case your assets are modest and you need the [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - December 1, 2011 at 8:46 am

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Pros and Cons of an Online Retirement Planning Software

The objective of all retirement planning software is to tell you one or both of those 2 bits of information: 1. how much you require to save money (generally monthly) to be able to retire or 2. how big of the nest egg you have to have for you to retire The retirement planning software does these calculations by accounting [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - November 29, 2011 at 3:56 pm

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Retirement Options that Impact When To Retire

You are at the phase where you can stop working or not, but when to retire? A newly released study has found five trade-off situations that have an affect on an employee’s decision to stop working or not. Let us review the results of those effects and also the retirement options. Health Insurance Coverage effect If you are wondering when [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - November 26, 2011 at 1:45 pm

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Early Retirement Checklist

The pursuit of retirement planning tends to make you feel confident and assured and offers a guide for a brand new stage of life. Here’s an early retirement checklist of concerns to get you into the swing of things. Searching out effective solutions for the scenario will put you in control and give you confidence that you can retire successfully. [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - November 26, 2011 at 8:06 am

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Popular Retirement Income Calculators

Using retirement income calculators attentively and seriously is very important to acquire the most correct results to forecast your retirement with any degree of precision. Generally, the more time and info that you put into retirement income calculators, the more accurate the result will be. A few detailed retirement income calculators are listed below. Motley Fool’s Calculator This calculator is [...]

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Posted by Frank Shurtz - November 11, 2011 at 12:29 pm

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IRA Rollovers - Selecting Investments

IRA Rollovers – Selecting Investments

Investing on your future retirement isn’t something that should be taken casually, especially as Social Security benefits and Medicare are probably  going to provide far less in terms of retirement support. Whether you’re a few years or a few decades away from retiring, the fact is that you may be expected to be able to foot a larger section of [...]

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Posted by bobrichards - July 11, 2011 at 4:09 pm

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