I’ve mentioned it before, but it surely bears repeating — successful retirement is about re-building your life from the ground up, replacing the structure and sense of purpose that is lost when you leave the workforce. To speed this process along, there are two rules to keep in mind – keep vigilant and stay motivated.
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null Getty Are you ready for Medicare’s Open Enrollment? It’s coming soon, running from October 15 through December 7. If you’re age 65 or older and are eligible for Medicare, you have a golden opportunity to choose wisely regarding your coverage or correct any previous mistakes you might have made regarding your Medicare elections. You
SINTRA, PORTUGAL – JUNE 27: ECB President Mario Draghi (L) and the Governor of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda (R) leave the conference area at the end of the first discussion session of the ECB Forum on Central Banking, on June 27, 2017 in Corbis via Getty Images Today, almost $13.5 trillion, or 27%
Energy stocks are en fuego again after a drone strike on a Saudi oil facility. We’re going to (as usual) skip the geopolitical talk and discuss oil dividends that will benefit from this disruption. While “buy and hope” investors ponder basic ways to play the spike, you and I know that about half of energy
WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 18: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on September 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. Getty The Fed cut rates 25 basis points last week. Generally, rate drops are positive for the economy, but the market did not seem
Today we’re going to dive into some of the proven indicators I use every day to forecast what’s next for the economy. Then I’ll name an off-the-radar fund holding some of the best-known growth stocks in the US. It pays an 8% dividend and is set to gain as the economy does something too few
Your bonds could get killed by rising rates. Here’s where to buy protection. Inflation is tame. Interest rates are low. Perhaps they are destined to go still lower, even into the negative territory you see in Europe. Perhaps not. There is a small but palpable risk that, sometime in the next decade or two, the
Retirement planning strategies change throughout our careers. While not on the cusp of retirement, as many Baby Boomers are, members of Generation-X are farther along in their career journeys than Millennials and younger generations. With less time to build their nest eggs, Gen-Xers need to pursue different strategies than workers just starting out or those
null Getty It’s entirely possible that you could live for 25 to 30 years after you retire. Planning to be financially secure for the rest of a potentially long life requires making a series of complex decisions, each with high stakes. And you often won’t have a “do-over.” If you can avoid making these seven
Don’t wait until late in the year to take actions in your IRA or 401(k). You might be too late. It can take a while to analyze your choices and determine the best action to take, especially for actions with a lot of variables such as converting part of a traditional IRA to a Roth