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Retirement Income

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• Can You Afford to Retire ... Ever?

  The “new normal” retirement will start at 67, not 62. You’ll pay for it with investments that don’t even exist today. And you’d better start saving now. You know what happened to the Dow and your home’s value, and if you even peek at your 401(k) statements,...

  Articles | Jun 22, 2009

• Rebuild Your Retirement Savings

  If you are in your 40s or younger, you probably have time to rebuild your savings before retirement. If you are in your 50s or older, and you had a lot of your 401(k) money in the stock market, you likely face a far grimmer truth: you may not be able to retire as early or as comfortably as you...

  Articles | Apr 17, 2009

• Overlooked Tax Deductions

  These tax deductions and credits can mean big savings on your 2008 federal income tax return. But you may not know about them, especially the new ones. So before you send in your return, check out these write-offs and take the ones you’re due. Make an IRA...

  Articles | Apr 3, 2009

• How To Create Retirement Income

  With the decline in the stock market, there's lots of talk these days about how to create retirement income. While there are a number of different strategies, I prefer to use a simple method of creating cash flow to fund distributions. It doesn't require you to time the stock or bond markets, and...

  Blog posts | Jul 30, 2009

• Retirement Withdrawals: Make Your Money Last a Lifetime

  For years you’ve been told that you could withdraw 4 percent of your retirement savings every year and you’d never run out of money. Turns out, it’s not that simple. For years, financial advisers have answered this tough question with the 4 percent rule of...

  Articles | Jul 29, 2009

• How to Know If a Reverse Mortgage Is Right for You

  If you’re of the right age, short on cash, and sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity, reverse mortgages can be a sweet deal. But these loans aren’t sure things. Here’s how to know if a reverse mortgage is right for you. 1. How much...

  Articles | Jun 2, 2009

• How to Retire Well? Retire Later

  MoneyWatch Editorial Director Eric Schurenberg describes one simple way you can save enough money for your retirement: work a little longer.

  Videos | Mar 10, 2009

• Check out the Best 401(k)s

  Does your 401(k) suck? (Or is it just you?) Find out by stacking up yours against three outstanding plans, each with particular strengths, offered by three very different companies: IBM, M. A. Mortenson, and Nationwide. IBM: A Generous Match and Choices Galore...

  Articles | Mar 9, 2009

• Limbo Your Way to Lower Taxes

  You may be able to lower your 2009 federal income tax bill by finding ways to bring your income below certain thresholds, which would otherwise limit your write-offs. Here’s how to get into those sweet spots and pay less to the Internal Revenue Service as a result... Most days, being well-off...

  Articles | Mar 9, 2009

• Quickly Estimate How Much You'll Need For Retirement

  Most people have no idea how much they may need to save for retirement. Understanding the retirement income distribution rule will give you a ballpark number for figuring out how much you need to save. by Charlie Farrell

  Blog posts | May 1, 2009