Successful Retirement Planning Blog
This is my Journal about Retirement Planning.
Letting you know whenever any new web pages appear on my site and sharing interesting news and issues about retirement.
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Jan 9, 2012
Retirement Planning
Your complete retirement planning resource. If you are truly serious about being in control of your own successful retirement
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Jan 8, 2012
Marketing Your Critical Care Retirement Community (CCRC)? Don’t Overlook Baby Boomer Family Members
For best results, CCRCs may want to keep their marketing efforts “in the family,” according to a recent survey by LeadingAge Member Mather LifeWays, Ziegler and Brecht Associates Inc.
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Jan 5, 2012
With Low-Cost Financial Planning, LearnVest Aims to Shake Up Market
Financial planning just got more accessible.
Develop a financial plan with a certified financial planner for as low as $229–a fraction of the cost of many similar services.
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Jan 5, 2012
Online series about Baby Boomer reinvention debuts
Online series about a Baby Boomer’s struggles to reinvent himself after being let go from his job ... a rude awakening!
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Jan 5, 2012
Aged 78 and Desperately Seeking a Job
For seniors who arrived in the Sierra Nevada foothills with retirement plans and enough money to buy homes, a dreary economy has turned everything upside-down. Now many are scraping by on a fixed income, a tough task in a place so isolated.
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Dec 27, 2011
Cutting Edge: Joint Injections Heal Baby Boomer Arthritis
When doctors told Aviva Gianetti of River Vale, N.J., that she would need surgery in both arms to heal her tennis elbow, she wanted to find a way out of it.
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Dec 26, 2011
Investment for Retirement – Avoid The Losing Option
Investment for Retirement – Don't be a Sucker, Now More Than Ever You Need To Look At Other Options
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Dec 26, 2011
Senior Living Properties - 20 Important Questions
20 questions to answer when considering a move to senior living properties
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Dec 26, 2011
Senior Retirement Communities - make your choice from many options
Senior Retirement Communities - winding up or winding down your life. There are many different lifestyle alternatives on offer.
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Dec 26, 2011
Retirement Financial Planning – the critical component
Retirement Financial Planning – it's never to late to start, as you can't be sure how long you'll live
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Dec 17, 2011
Desperately seeking style
Certain Things owner Lu Harris says boomer women "want a little bit of spark. The fit has to be good and the quality has to be there, but there has to be that spark." Her store in Cameron Village caters to boomer women.
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Dec 17, 2011
Retirement Planning In A Changing World
"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today," the famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov once pointed out. In the realm of retirement planning, that wise observation is as true now as it was when Asimov related it.
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Dec 10, 2011
Man vs. Morlock
The problem is not, therefore, with who influences government, or even why – but rather the fact that government policymaking is so malleable in the first place.
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Dec 6, 2011
Downsize or equity release – which is better for retirees?
Your home is likely to be your greatest asset and for many people, property plays a huge role in retirement planning.
Dwindling pensions make unlocking cash from property an increasingly popular option, but for those who have the equity, is it better to sell up and downsize, or should retirees opt for to equity release plans?
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Dec 3, 2011
Do You Need Longevity Insurance?
Retirement planning would be a whole lot easier if you knew when you were going to die. Just think: You wouldn't have to worry about scrimping through your 60s only to drop at 75, or about taking too many cruises only to end up eating cat food at 90.
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Nov 21, 2011
Boomer kids still at home
The so-called Boomerang generation is stressing out their Baby Boomer parents and delaying the retirement of almost one in five of them, says a poll by Forum Research Inc., commissioned by the Financial Post.
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Nov 19, 2011
Retirement Planner – Your Secret to a Successful Retirement
Your retirement planner. People who plan win ... those that don't fail
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Nov 19, 2011
Survey: Many workers expect to stay on the job until 80 to save enough to retire comfortably
Workers are growing to accept the idea that they may be working long after they’ve become eligible for senior discounts. Yet rather than fixate on their target retirement age, they’re increasingly focused on how much money they’ll need to retire.
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Nov 9, 2011
Retirement Around the World: 25 Fascinating Facts
Retirement as we know it is a relatively new phenomenon, brought on by a combination of longer life spans, changing attitudes about work, government social programs, and the rise of a middle class. Yet despite its newness, retirement has become quite entrenched in American society and is now a common rite of passage for older adults.
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Oct 24, 2011
Tips for New Boomer Grandparents
Well my friends, last week I began what most likely will be the most rewarding chapter of my baby boomer years: I became a grandfather to a beautiful, healthy baby boy.
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Oct 19, 2011
Senior Retirement Living – the new beginning
Senior Retirement Living – a lifestyle change made for many reasons
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Oct 16, 2011
Retirement Planning for Women – more uncertain and unpredictable
Retirement Planning for Women – lower earnings and a longer life span combine to make this planning a real challenge
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Oct 16, 2011
Retirement Help – with a little advice from my friends
Retirement Help – as you head off into this unknown territory a little help will ease the path
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Oct 16, 2011
Retirement Ages - Controversial and Illogical
Official retirement ages were set many years ago and never revised. The result is people are disillusioned and angry at being misled
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Oct 15, 2011
How to Minimize Retirement's Hidden Costs
Some expenses never make it into our retirement calculations. How to plan for curveballs .
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Oct 12, 2011
Baby Boomer's Method to Occupy Wall Street
I've been expecting Occupy Wall Street to happen for the past three years.
Anger has been rising on Main Street since the bailouts and the million dollar bonuses. Washington and Wall Street spent so much time talking to each other that they never noticed and figured it had gone away.
It has not.
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Oct 9, 2011
Retirement Planning Checklist - Start Yours Plan
Retirement Planning Checklist - the Baby Boomer countdown has begun. There are many issues to consider and even by ignoring them they won't go away.
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Oct 8, 2011
Baby Boomers And Retirement Are Arriving Like A Tsunami
Baby boomers and retirement are going to present the world's systems with many challenges with the impact and aftermath being felt for the next few generations
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Sep 28, 2011
Improving Your Finances The Best Resources for Retirement Planning
Navigating your finances before and during retirement is complex business. You've got to estimate your expenses, test (and re-test) your portfolio's sustainability, and optimize your asset allocation and choose your investments.
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Sep 25, 2011
Navigating the Emotional Minefield
Retirement planning used to be easy. Ten years ago it was a simple mathematical calculation that you could apply across the board to just about everyone. But today, with so many different visions, versions and variables impacting each client, retirement planning has become both a financial planning puzzle and an emotional minefield.
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