A ROAD MAP FOR WOMEN IN RETIREMENT
The Transition Network helps launch post-career plans Read Published Article Charlotte Frank remembers heading downtown that brilliant September morning seven years ago toward her 63rd-floor office in Lower Manhattan, where she was an executive with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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SMART WAYS TO INFLATIONPROOF YOUR RETIREMENT PORTFOLIO
Prudent hedges keep rising prices from gnawing at your nest egg Read Published Article It’s been a rough year for retirees—and those eyeing retirement. Crashing stocks have slammed retirement account values. Falling house prices are shuttering dreams of selling the big family home, buying a less expensive pad, and pocketing the excess to shore up [...]
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6 TIPS ON PLANNING A SECOND CAREER
Moving into a new field later in life can be fulfilling. Here’s how to do it Read Published Article A New York investment banker becomes a small-town chef. A techie turns acupuncturist. An entrenched corporate exec accepts an early retirement package and converts to the ministry. Longer life spans, concerns about outliving retirement savings, and [...]
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TIPS ON SHIFTING TO RETIREMENT SPENDING MODE
The transitional years require a change in your financial mind-set Read published article Uneasy about the future, many new or prospective retirees figure it’s time to purge their portfolio of risk (translation: growth stocks) and shift the money into conservative, income-producing investments such as bonds, dividend-paying stocks, and bank certificates of deposit.
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‘ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR’ HAS BITE-SIZE WORDS OF WISDOM
Buy the Book on Amazon.com It’s hard to believe it took three people to write a book as short as this one. But apparently, it did. The One Minute Entrepreneur, written by a team headed by motivational speaker Ken Blanchard, author of the classic The One Minute Manager, dispenses inspirational wisdom on the keys to [...]
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50 ACTIVE VACATIONS FOR THE FITNESS-CONSCIOUS
Read Published Article How’s this for a summer travel idea: Save energy, save money (if you want to), and get healthier, too. Fitness-conscious vacationers bored by the prospect of the beach have set off an explosion in trips that involve doing the sightseeing literally under one’s own steam. All told, active travel accounted for an [...]
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5 RETIREMENT MISTAKES TO AVOID
At 60, Diane Fuchs knows a little bit about investing for retirement. The Washington, D.C.-based employee benefits attorney has a 401(k) plan, a mix of IRA accounts—and a good sense of discipline about protecting her retirement funds. Yet six months ago, worried about a tumbling stock market, Fuchs anxiously considered selling off all the equities [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: GO GREEN, LIVE RICH: 50 SIMPLE WAYS TO SAVE THE EARTH (AND GET RICH TRYING)
Read Published Article Buy the Book on Amazon.com After writing a series of best-selling personal finance books, such as The Automatic Millionaire and Start Late, Finish Rich, author David Bach has built an audience of avid readers. That’s good news for the environment. In Go Green, Live Rich, his latest offering in collaboration with Hillary [...]
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THE TWO TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN: EASY MONEY, HIGH ROLLERS, AND THE GREAT CREDIT CRASH (PAPERBACK)
Read Published Article Buy the Book on Amazon.com Charles Morris, author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, isn’t one for sugarcoating. His analysis is dour and grim, but certainly not dull. And when read against a backdrop of an ever-weaker economy, increasingly anxious economists and a stream of gloomy predictions, it can be downright scary. Morris, [...]
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Book Review: Maxed Out
Read Published Article Buy the Book on Amazon.com When Wesley Wannemacher, an Ohio resident, testified at a congressional hearing earlier this month, his story of debt and hopelessness was a familiar one. Wannemacher had maxed out his $3,000 Chase bank card to pay for his wedding and fell behind in his payments. Over six years, [...]
A collection of 65 essays that provides practical and entertaining advice about how to create a fulfilling retirement. The royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to cancer research.
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