Category: Retirement

  • It pays to volunteer in retirement

    By Joel Dresang After we’re no longer working for our money — when we rely on our money to work for us – volunteering is a healthy way to capitalize on the time we have left. We can extend our years and accentuate our days. Volunteering is one way to both sustain our health and…

  • Moving the goal posts to full retirement

    By Joel Dresang The trickier question raised by governments extending the retirement age is the non-financial quandary of when should we call it quits and begin the next phase of our lives? Semantically, it’s the difference between when can we retire and when should we. […]

  • Longer living afterthought to retirement

    By Joel Dresang Longevity experts call for a recasting of when and how we retire. That would require rethinking – and coaching. […]

  • Retirement risk concerns out of order

    By Joel Dresang It turns out we generally misplace priorities when assessing what to expect in retirement. […]

  • Rust in retirement can affect finances

    By Joel Dresang When we retire, we leave behind more than a job, more than a desk chair indelibly contoured to our proportions, more than a cadre of 9-to-5 companions. It turns out many of us leave a bit of our minds. “Retiring is associated with increased risk of cognitive decline,” says a report from…

  • How part of portfolio can act as pension

    By Joel Dresang I am part of a vanishing class of workers with so-called defined-benefit plans—company-funded accounts guaranteeing set monthly payments in retirement. There used to be more of us. My pension is from a former employer. In my age group, 1 in 10 households has a pension. That’s down from more than 6 in…

  • Retirement 101: Having a plan

    Most people spend more time and energy arranging vacation or a night out than they do on planning their retirement. When it comes to retirement, it pays to have a plan.

  • Having the confidence to retire

    To have confidence to retire, have a plan, assess your resources and allocate them for both growth and short-term security, Art Rothschild advises in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • How much to spend in retirement

    How much you can afford to spend in retirement involves your ability to spend some percentage of your investment portfolio.