Retirement Archive

Investing in Costco

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) is a chain retail store in the United States. Most Costco stores require people who shop at them to have a membership (or to be a guest of such a …

An Outlook for Costco Stock

Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) has become the premier membership warehouse for consumers who prefer no-frills, self-service shopping in a one-stop environment with a wide range of product categories. The Costco name has been synonymous with …

Retirement Planning for Late Starters

Reading up and learning more about retirement strategies for late starters turns up one interesting discovery—all who discuss this topic comment that it’s never too late to make a plan. Perhaps that is true, but …

Retirement

You retired with a pat on your back from your ex-boss and maybe you received a parting gift, like a gold watch. Now you have all of the time in the World to do what you …

Benefits of Delaying Retirement

The benefits of delaying your retirement are more important than ever as we look at what’s happening to our country’s financial situation and the very real financial problems many people are facing or will in …

Social Security Income Limits

Currently, the obstacles faced by retirees regarding Social Security income limits are being dwarfed by other benefit-related concerns. For example, during the United States’ debt crisis, more people close to or already receiving Social Security …

Benefits of Delaying Retirement

While many people can’t wait to retire, others dread the thought of  retirement, and wonder what on earth they are going to do with their time. Then of course, there’s the worry that your financial provisions …

Retirement Planning Mistakes to Avoid

Retirement planning is possibly the most difficult part of financial planning because it is extremely difficult to predict the exact years of employment, the exact amount of money that you will accumulate during the years …

How to Apply for Social Security Disability

Individuals applying for Social Security benefits may presume the only requirement is to file an application with the Social Security Administration (SSA), and SSA will take care of the rest. The reality is, filing for Social Security disability …

The Coverage of Long Term Care Insurance Policies

Long term-care pertains to the different services beyond medical care and nursing care used by people who have difficulties or chronic illnesses. Long-term care insurance assists you in paying for these advantages, which can cost …

How to Adjust to a Low Income in Retirement

Whether you’re working for someone or yourself, retirement is something you can’t completely avoid; it’s necessary that you tackle its associated problems. And one of such problems is the low income that most retirees have …

Retirement Planning Myths

There is no lack of information out there on retirement planning. You could spend hours trawling through all the information out there and get starting thinking you know everything there is to know. The problem …

Common Retirement Planning Myths

Retirement changes your life drastically and hopefully for the better. Some people tend to think that retirement is all about money, but the truth of the matter is that retirement is a lifestyle, it is …

Retirement Mistakes Retirement Plan

Retirement planning is essential, unless you plan to work at your company until death do both of you part which may not even be possible. As clearly as we plan, sometimes we do make mistakes. …

Favorite Retirement Locales

We tend to go back to places we loved as a child, be it a particular house, town, or even a country. The place calls to us like a bull moose during mating season; we …

The Benefits of Delaying your Retirement

A foremost and favorable implication that arises from delayed retirement benefits is the increased social security income you will lay claim to as soon as you stop working. How long you delay your retirement is …

Tips to Structuring your Retirement Portfolio

Structuring a solid retirement portfolio, like Rome, isn’t built in a day. It takes years of steady savings, intelligent investments and, in these days of an uncertain economy, a good measure of common sense. Of …

Retirement

Do you know when it will be a good idea to retire from the workforce? How much money do you have saved for your retirement? How much money will you earn after you do retire? …

Retirment Savings in Australia

Super Funds and Tax Time Changes to the laws target aggressive strategies that allow self-managed super funds to avoid tax. The Federal Government has signaled its intention to crack down on members of self-managed or …

Figuring out Retirement Age

Planning for your retirement is an extremely complicated thing. No matter how you look at it or how well off you think you are, there are a lot of different factors that go into retirement …

Retirement

Since each of us are somehow different from every other person who is alive on Earth, what is good for some people might not be good for other people. That much is most certainly correct when …