Who says money can’t buy happiness?

It’s an age-old adage: Money can’t buy happiness. Or can it?  A recent Princeton University study on the link between money and life satisfaction showed that those people who were fiscally responsible and didn’t worry about making ends meet (and …

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Pulling back the curtain on the Rebalancing Act

This is the 3nd in a series of three posts about Women & Retirement. Read the previous post. One of the biggest investment mistakes modern women make is neglecting to regularly rebalance their portfolio. If you’re not rebalancing, then the …

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Don’t procrastinate, allocate: Getting your assets in the right place.

This is the 2nd in a series of three posts about Women & Retirement. Read the first post. The investment pie’s baked—time to slice it up. OK, so you know how much to save for your retirement and you’ve begun …

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Get your retirement ducks in a row.

This is the first of three posts about women & retirement. Here’s an unsettling fact: Women are much less likely than men to have a financially secure retirement. Of course, there are many variables that impact women and retirement planning. …

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Retirement may take a little hedging on your part.

If it’s January, and you happen to live in a part of the country that’s cold and snowy (these days, that seems to describe 95% of the country), your mind may be wandering and drifting to warm ocean breezes and …

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Move the Retirement Train out of Procrastination Station

Retirement: It seems so far away—and if you’re 15, or 27, or 46, or a full-steam-ahead 62-year-old marathoner, maybe it is. But saving for retirement should not be thought of in the distant future. It can’t be. It has to …

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Tackling retirement, piece by piece.

It’s National Save for Retirement Week, Savers. We don’t know if it’s quite as popular as Shark Week or Senior Week, but we sure hope Congress’ resolution to increase personal financial literacy and raise public awareness about saving for retirement …

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Picture what your future retired self looks like. Like what you see?

It’s National Save for Retirement Week, Savers. We don’t know if it’s quite as popular as Shark Week or Senior Week, but we sure hope Congress’ resolution to increase personal financial literacy and raise public awareness about saving for retirement …

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