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Plan for Retirement
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Articles on Retirement Planning
8 Ways to Jump-Start Your Retirement Savings
The best advice is to start now, because time is the most important factor in preparing for retirement. Saving for retirement is a daunting task. It requires cutting back current spending in order...
Tips to Ensure Your Retirement Income
In the early 1990's, I started my career in the financial industry with one of the most well-known Wall Street firms. Many changes have occurred since 1993. Thousands of different investment...
Tax-Deferred Accounts: Where to Hold Your Retirement Cash
When saving for retirement, many people use a combination of tax-deferred and taxable investment accounts to boost retirement savings. But how should you allocate your portfolio between them? Is it...
Tax-Deferred Investing Matters More Than Ever
There’s an anonymous quote that is very fitting given the new realities of our current tax environment, “I’m putting all my money in taxes — it’s the only sure thing to go up.” Yes, taxes have gone...
Using your Health Savings Account for Long-Term Care
Health savings accounts are one of the most tax favored savings vehicles available to Americans. Since they are completely tax free — funded with pre-tax dollars and not subject to taxes at...
Use a Roth 401(k) to Boost Retirement Savings
There's a Case for a Roth to Boost Retirement Savings as New 401(k) Options Emerge. Many companies are starting to offer employees the choice of Roth 401(k)s as well as traditional 401(k)s to boost...