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Are You Moving in Retirement – Please Take Our Quick Survey

Category: Retirement Planning

June 22, 2016 — Where will you live in retirement? Will it be in your current home, or something completely new in a very different region? Would you ever consider renting? Please take this quick 10 question, multiple choice survey and let us know. We will use your responses to…

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Published on June 22, 2016
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The One and Done Appeal of a Life Plan Community

Category: Life Care or CCRC

February 27, 2016 — One of the best pieces of advice we have heard about retirement is to take the long view, rather than just focusing on the early years. The long view idea is to find a place to retire where you can live the rest of your life…

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Published on February 27, 2016
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7 “Must-Do” Items Now That You Are Retired

Category: Retirement Planning

Note: This is the third in our series of vital things you need to do once you retire. The first 2 installments include different things to think about, and also have some great Comments from our Members. February 8, 2016 — Well done, your long-awaited reward for years of…

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Published on February 8, 2016
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The 3 x 5 Index Card Guide to Retirement Planning

Category: Checklists

January 11, 2016 — It can be daunting to think about planning for retirement. There is so much to consider, where do you even start? But what if all you had to think about was boiled down to a 3 x 5 index card? That is what we have done…

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Published on January 11, 2016
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What’s in Your Retirement Plan?

Category: Retirement Planning

October 21, 2015 — Maybe the better question is, “Do you have a retirement plan”. According to Richard Russo in a recent MarketWatch Retirement Weekly article, having a plan greatly increases your chances of success. So if you don’t have one, now is a mighty good time to start.

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Published on October 20, 2015
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12 Lies We Tell Ourselves about Retirement

Category: Retirement Planning

June 12, 2015 — Oh, the things we say we are going to do in retirement. And if only we did them! We were inspired by a recent MarketWatch story, “Five Lies We Tell Ourselves in Retirement“, which focused on lies people tell themselves on financially related aspects of…

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Published on June 12, 2015
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Part 2: How Well the Retirement Experts Follow Their Own Advice (Or Not)

Category: Retirement Planning

By Jan Cullinane and John Brady Note: This is Part 2 of a 3 part series. See bottom of article for links to the other two. April 16, 2015 — In Part 1 we published detailed answers to the first two questions we asked our panel of six retirement…

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Published on April 18, 2015
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Where the Retirement Experts Are “Retiring,” And Why – Part 1

Category: Retirement Planning

By Jan Cullinane and John Brady Note: This is Part 1 of a 3 part series. See bottom of article for links to the other two. April 4, 2015 — Most of us know by now that one size cannot fit all when it comes to choosing our best…

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Published on April 4, 2015
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OK You Retirement Experts, How Well Are You Doing with Your Own Retirement?

Category: Retirement Planning

April 2, 2015 — By Jan Cullinane and John Brady Retirement advice is not hard to come by – it seems like every website and newspaper will tell you how to do it. So we were intrigued when our frequent contributor, Jan Cullinane, suggested a different approach. Her…

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Published on April 2, 2015
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Take Our New Retirement Confidence Poll

Category: Retirement Planning

Note: This survey is closed. To see the most interesting results, go to: “Topretirements Members Very Confident About Retirement” September 9, 2014 — Please share a couple of minutes to tell us about your confidence in maintaining your standard of living, importance of proximity to good medical care,…

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Published on September 9, 2014
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