When most people think about investing for retirement, they think about a financial investment: How much am I saving? Where is it being invested? What kind of return can I expect? Planning your financial investment before you retire is not bad, obviously. But this perspective by itself misses the whole picture. You also want to
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Getty Most of us have some vision of what we would like our golden years to look like. We all have different ambitions: strolling on the beach, traveling the world, reading in a rocking chair beside a lake, hitting the golf course every day, spending time with family and friends, or thousands of other permutations.
A rainy night in mid-town Manhattan, 2013. Something was happening at 8th Ave. and 44th St. — sirens, squad cars, cops cordoning off a corner. My actress girlfriend and I were coming from a theater workshop at the Producers Club on 44th, and she said as we approached the avenue: “You might be covering that
Source: Stock.Adobe.com Longtime favorite of financial advisors falling on tough times Have you ever spent time with a financial advisor whose investment approach is rooted in “asset allocation?” Most are, these days. I am not one of them, at least not in the traditional sense. But if you have been informed by one, you were
There are two words I’d bet cross your mind every time you buy a stock: “2008 repeat.” As in: “I can’t afford one!” I hear it regularly from Contrarian Income Report readers. It’s obvious why: we’re all 11 years older, and we can’t mess around—we need “correction-proof” growth and big dividends (I’m talking 6% yields
Next Avenue For the past five years, Next Avenue — public media’s first and only national journalism service for America’s older population — has released a list of “Influencers in Aging.” Our goal is to name a dozen groundbreakers who, in the past year, have helped transform attitudes about aging, presented innovative insights and research
Large hangar warehouse industrial and logistics companies. Warehousing on the floor and called the high shelves. Getty Note: The original interview was published in the September issue of Forbes Real Estate Investor. Brad believes the information shared below is well worth spreading around, and he hopes you get a valuable perspective out of it to put
Today I want to show you how you can retire on $405,000—and with just five buys, too! Put together, these five stocks and funds hand you a 7.4%-yielding portfolio that will pay you reliably for decades. First, though, let’s quickly run through how our “5-buy” portfolio will work—and how it proves the so-called “experts,” who
Users should be alarmed about all the issues that didn’t get fixed by the new Medicare Plan Finder. Getty The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) redesigned the Medicare Plan Finder to address many concerns. Probably, the best summary of these concerns is in the July 2019 GAO report, “Medicare Plan Finder: Usability Problems and
If you’ve read many of my columns and articles, or seen any of my videos, you already know I’m a strong advocate of becoming a millionaire. No, it’s not an absolute requirement for a happy life. But it does create a better lifestyle, if you can make it happen. And you can. The only thing