These Women Face The Greatest Retirement Risk
“Two-income households typically make more, but save less,” says Cindy Hounsell, president of the Washington D.C.-based Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER).
Advice for Working Women
Although everyone takes a different career path, there’s usually a common spine of the underlying moves that makes success feasible. Just ask Joann S. Lublin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, management news editor for The Wall Street Journal and author of the fine book about working women, Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the […]
How to Put Your Money Into Firms That Support Women
This week, I had my annual face-to-face meeting with my financial adviser. We converse throughout the year via emails and a rare phone call, but this was the have-a look-under-the-hood summit. It was my chance to grill her on how my investments were doing, tweak my asset allocation to conform to my conservative growth strategy […]
How to Figure How Much You Will Need in Retirement
Thanks to modern medicine, people are living longer. This means, many of us are going to live longer, healthier lives than our parents’ generation. On average, men and women spend seven more years in retirement than they did in1970. Your retirement could last longer than your working years, say, thirty years or more. Budgeting for […]
Survey Shows Women Are Becoming More Financially Confident
How’s this for a twist? Women are making strides when it comes to ramping up their financial mojo and saving for retirement. And men are falling back. The number of women who say they’re on track for retirement climbed 4.2 percent from 2012 to 2014, compared to a dip of 1.5 percent for men, according […]
How Women Can Get What They Want at Work
I’ve been on a soapbox talking about ways people can be more engaged in their jobs, and, in fact, love them, ever since my book, Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness was published this spring. So a recent study by Gallup made me smile. It said: “Female managers are more engaged […]
Small Attitude Adjustments, Big Money Impact
A fact of life they didn’t tell you middle school: You’ll likely be flying solo at some point during your retirement, if not at the start. “From the age of 65 to the end of life, most American women are single, and if they lost a partner, their standard of living drops,” says Kerry Hannon, […]
Get Better at Investing and Managing Your Finances for Intermediates
Take a read of my Money Beginner’s Checklist for Women 50+ that I compiled for PBS Next Avenue. Editor’s note: This article is part of a Next Avenue special section about women age 50+ managing their money. If you’ve invested in your 401(k) and know a little about taxes and debt, but would like to know more about […]
Take This Money Quiz
Here’s a quick and easy way to gauge your money-management acumen. Editor’s note: This article is part of a Next Avenue special section about women age 50+ managing their money. As part of the special section, Next Avenue personal finance blogger Kerry Hannon has created this Money IQ Quiz. Think you have a good handle on […]
PBS NewsHour: Kerry’s Advice: Ways Women Over 50 Can Achieve Financial Fitness
Keeping physically fit is always important, but as we age, it becomes even more imperative to maintaining quality of life. According to personal finance expert and Next Avenue contributor Kerry Hannon, the same is true for financial fitness. Hannon stresses the importance of “financial fitness” for women, and especially for female members of the baby […]
