Jan 30, 2014 | Retirement Plans
Say it fast and it can be a bit of a tongue-twister, but it was President Obama’s introduction of a retirement savings plan he called a “MyRA” that generated considerable attention in post-State of the Union analyses, including discussion of the idea in a...
Jan 27, 2014 | Boomer Retirement, News, Retirement Plans
“If you were born between 1943 and 1954, it was sometimes rough going squeezing into overcrowded housing, schools and colleges. But in terms of Social Security claiming choices, no one has it better than you,” writes Jeffrey Miller in an excellent martketwatch.com...
Jan 24, 2014 | Retirement Plans
We can say a number of things about bonds. Among the movie Bonds, say, can we at least agree that Sean Connery remains the best of the 007 bunch? And among the lower-case bonds, as Paula Aven Gladych writes in an interesting benefitspro.com piece that, in terms of...
Jan 22, 2014 | Retirement Plans
It wouldn’t be a new year without a torrent of movie awards shows (and we can never get enough of them—though, after screening it, we’re still debating whether “The Wolf of Wall Street” is compellingly on the edge or hopelessly off the wall), and in the realm of...
Jan 13, 2014 | Retirement Plans
With apologies to Jane Austen, who wrote Sense and Sensibility, the next life chapter for pre-retirees might be titled Plans and Probability. Put another way, perceptions, it’s been said, have a way of becoming reality—or perhaps not. And maybe the same could be said...
