Early Retirement
The Wall Street Journal - July 27, 2008
The complexity of preparing financially for retirement can make anyone nervous -- but a new survey finds women are more worried than men about the challenges ahead, particularly inflation, health-care costs and
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USA TODAY - July 2, 2008
Long before workers at the San Diego Food Bank began distributing cardboard food cartons from the back of a truck on a recent day, elderly men and women, many needing walkers and metal canes, formed a line in a church parking
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New York Times - July 3, 2008
RISK-AVERSE? Clueless as to what P.&.L means? You, too, can be an entrepreneur.
Not the hard-driving type who makes the business news pages. Rather, the laid-back, come-what-may variety. Many of them are part of
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SFGate, June 16, 2008Ruth Britton enjoys her part-time work as a
college instructor. But, at 69, there are plenty of other things the
Greenbrae resident would like to do - volunteer, write, take classes,
travel.
The problem is, with the cost of living
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CNN, May 20th, 2008Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility
vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled
on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.A former loan
processor, the 67-year-old mother
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USAToday, May 16th, 2008Patty Stewart of Redlands, Calif., is beginning to think she won't be able to retire at 65. Or 67. Or possibly ever.
Like millions of other people, Stewart is
counting on her 401(k) and her home equity to pay for retirement.
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BusinessWeek, May 13th, 2008In this roundup of B-school research: why women are better savers,
it's good to talk up your rivals, and how a logo can spark ideas.
Women are more motivated than men to save for retirement, according to a recent report from
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NYTimes, April 21st, 2008WITH his longtime New York
City estate and business law practice winding down, Robert Rubinger was
ready to retire five years ago, at age 76. But his wife, Nancy, who was
then 66, was not.
Ms. Rubinger had started working
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NYTimes, April 21st, 2008EDWARD M. HOUGHTON, a human resources executive at Pitney Bowes,
was sick of traffic jams and unpredictable hours. Bina Kozak, who
matches patients to cardiologists at a Scripps Health clinic in San
Diego, wanted to volunteer
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Post-bulletin, April 12th, 2008A recent Wachovia survey reported that more than half of female
respondents ''feel worried'' when they think about being prepared for
retirement. Below is a list of a few things you can do to ensure that
your retirement
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The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2008Nest Eggs Shrink, Deferring Dreams; 'Freaked Out' EliteAs the falling real-estate and stock markets erode their savings, many
aging Americans are delaying retirement, electing labor over leisure in
uncertain times.A
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InvestmentNews, March 31, 2008By now you are probably tired of hearing that baby boomers are going to
change retirement. The fact is, they are. Yet despite all the talk, the
financial services industry still remains mostly unprepared — largely
because
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US News & World Report, March 27th, 2008Older Americans are living longer than ever and enjoying better health and financial security, a new report finds.
Yet there continue to be lingering disparities between racial and ethnic groups.
In 2006,
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Center for Retirement Research at Boston
College, March 2008Most married men claim Social Security benefits at age 62 or 63, well
short of the age that maximizes the expected present value of the
average household’s benefits. That many married
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Barron's Online, March 18th, 2008How much of a nest egg do you need to join the true elite? The
tool-and-die man figured he was retiring rich. After selling an Arizona
business that he'd built up over 30 years, he retreated to a 30-acre
spread on the
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