Transitions in Retirement: A Whirlwind of Change
Retirement is sometimes portrayed as a relatively uneventful, static chapter in life. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth! For most, retirement will be filled with significant life changes and transitions. Some of these changes we pursue, some we must learn to accept, some transitions can happen concurrently while others may require our […]
Financial Support of Adult Children and Your Retirement
Much has been written about how the current generation of young people are transitioning to full adulthood. Some take a very negative view characterizing the transition as “slow” while others take a sympathetic view, reasoning that that the transition is more difficult to make than it was for prior generations given that the cost of […]
Which Retirement Are You Buying?
For many, the default approach seems to be to just “save what I can” for retirement. Individuals taking this approach usually save what’s “leftover” after making payments on their home, car and credit cards and covering their expenses of daily living. People generally recognize that they should save at least enough to capture their employer’s 401(k) match, if such a match exists, lest they “leave money on the table” each year.
