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When You Think of Your Retirement, What Vision Comes to Mind?
Aaron and Monica Sector were approaching the point where Aaron could walk away from his company with a reasonable pension. Monica, an elementary school teacher, still had five years left before she joined her husband “in retirement.” The Sectors had been caught up in...
Defining Retirement Success
The first step to having a successful retirement is defining what a successful retirement means to you. That means actually writing it out! A successful retirement will look different to different people. Some may want to keep working; others may want to travel....
6 Retirement Questions to Ask Yourself
Do You Really Want to Retire? Not long ago, I had lunch with Charlie, a 63-year-old business owner from West Caldwell, New Jersey. Because he knew that I was in the financial services industry, he peppered me with questions about retirement and his pending plans to...
The Modern Elder
Struggling with the Traditional Concept of Retirement For many years I have struggled with the concept of ‘retirement’. As I work with my clients, I can’t help but feel that the idea of it being the end of things and the time to wind it down didn’t fit what I was...
The Health Benefits of Strong Relationships
The Proven Correlation Between the Size of Your Social Network and your Longevity. A lot of research has been done on the health benefits of having strong relationships in your later years. Studies have shown a direct correlation between the size of your social...
Future Effects of Past Money Experiences
Your past money experiences can affect the way you deal with your financial decisions today, and into the future. People tend to deal with money on an emotional level and that can affect their ability to make good financial decisions. This is one of the reasons people...
Healthy Lifestyle And Your Money
When you think about a healthy lifestyle, you also want to consider the length of time that your money may have to last until you finally pass away. While that is a positive outcome of being healthy and a worthy goal, there is the opposite potential. Medical science...
The Importance Of Attitude In A Meaningful Retirement
One of my clients was not looking forward to her retirement at all. For the two years leading up to the day she would leave her job as a teacher, she fretted about what she would do and how she would feel when she didn’t have to teach anymore. “It’s funny, but I don’t...
Times Passes: Thirty Years On
"We do not have, never have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates or business activity will be a year from now."-- Warren Buffett, the world's most admired, least imitated investor, in his annual letter to shareholders 30...
All Your Eggs In One Basket
Diversification explained: The two cornerstones of any investment strategy that, makes sense, are asset allocation and diversification. If you are not doing the correct diversification you are basically betting on some sector of the markets to do better than others....