by Sarah Tenhundfeld | Oct 9, 2019 | Financial Education, Retirement
The 401(k) plan is the most popular employer-sponsored retirement plan today. Sixty-five percent of employers offer a 401(k) or similar plan to their employees. The world today has largely shifted the burden of retirement savings from the employer to the employee....
by Jeannette Jones | Sep 25, 2019 | Budgeting, Financial Planning, Retirement
The song Once in a Lifetime sums up the way I believe many people feel when they get to a certain point in their lives. Time has passed, they made decisions – or avoided making them – and they find themselves living a life they aren’t so sure about. Or as Talking...
by taaginc | Apr 24, 2019 | Effective Decision Making, Personal Stories, Retirement
During my junior year of college, my two cats and I lived in a one-bedroom apartment a few miles away from campus (I was apparently trying to get the crazy cat lady thing knocked out early). The place wasn’t much, but it was all I could afford working full-time as a...
by taaginc | Oct 10, 2018 | Effective Decision Making, Retirement
Do you ever find yourself day dreaming, imagining how happy you will be when you get that house on the beach, when you write that last college tuition check, or when you tell your boss you’ve had it and are finally retiring? On that day, you think, I will be happy. ...
by taaginc | Jul 11, 2018 | Effective Decision Making, Retirement, Smart Spending
From Dr. Shlomo Benartzi’s article in Journal Reports: Wealth Management section of the Wall Street Journal on June 10, 2018. Appeared in the June 11, 2018, print edition. Click here for the original article. Dr. Benartzi (@shlomobenartzi) is a professor and...
by Chip Workman | Jun 27, 2018 | Investing & Markets, Retirement
A recent article published by Charles Schwab caught my attention. The basic premise was that the average American is now living 8,000 days, just shy of 22 years, past the age of 60 and that this presents all kinds of challenges and opportunities in our role as...
