How Do You Know If You’re Ready to Retire Now? Here’s a Checklist

How Do You Know If You’re Ready to Retire Now? Here’s a Checklist

According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), the full retirement age is 66 or 67, depending on the year you were born. However, you can start receiving benefits as early as age 62. And if you have other retirement savings at your disposal, you may even be able to retire far earlier. Ultimately, retirement isn’t…

How to Access Traditional Funds In Early Retirement

How to Access Traditional Funds In Early Retirement

Saving for retirement can be one of those things that is simple, but not easy. If you are like most people, you probably spend a lot of time and energy worrying about getting the money into your retirement accounts in the first place and haven’t considered how you’ll get it out. In practice, adequately funding…

What to Do When Your Employer’s Retirement Plan Sucks

What to Do When Your Employer’s Retirement Plan Sucks

Maybe you are the person who eagerly devours benefit booklets and paperwork first thing when you get a new job. Or perhaps you’ve been at your office for 10+ years and you just realized that you should probably start saving for retirement. Regardless, at some point, you are likely to be faced with the task…

Can You Get a Solid Financial Plan for Only $96?
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Can You Get a Solid Financial Plan for Only $96?

I can still remember my first financial plan. The good folks at American Express created a thick, beautifully-bound financial plan for my wife and me when we were first starting out. It was useless. The problem wasn’t Amex, though — the problem was that we didn’t have any assets of which to speak. There wasn’t…

7 Things to Know About the Military’s New Retirement Plan

7 Things to Know About the Military’s New Retirement Plan

The views expressed in this article are those of the author only, and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army or Department of Defense. President Obama signed the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on November 25, 2015. Before both houses of Congress approved the bill, a large part of the…