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Thursday, April 6, 2017

This week’s retirement strategies and news

April 06

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Not every business will succeed, and a ROBS carries one particularly notable risk: You could jeopardize your retirement.

Financing a business with your retirement nest egg

Skip Sheppard took a bet on himself in 2011: The 59-year-old used $200,000 from his retirement accounts to buy a business.

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Where is it cheapest to retire? Let's take a quick look to find out how much the average retiree spends in your part of the country.

These are the areas where it costs the most to retire
How much will you need to retire? $500,000? $1 million? $2 million? There's no easy answer.

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Mental accounting is essentially the household equivalent of financial accounting, but it is often done without conscious thought.

Try mental accounting to make your retirement dreams come true
You might not know what it's called, but odds are high you do it – you craft systems that enable you to make countless decisions about money without breaking into a sweat.

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My wife recently lost her executive position and is now being offered the option of taking her pension and 401(k), plus severance. Should we take this option and pay off our mortgage?

Q&A: Should I use my severance to pay off the mortgage?
My wife recently lost her executive position and is now being offered the option of taking her pension and 401(k) plus severance. Should we take this option and pay off our mortgage? She thinks we should.

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10 incredible financial statistics that sum up the average American
Here's an overview of how much money Americans make, owe and save.

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Jar with label Retirement Plan and money on the table.

Tips for tweaking your retirement plan to avoid potential obstacles
To the extent some people fall short in retirement, the causes are usually attributable to a lack of planning or foresight.

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Nearly 40 million U.S. households (45%) have no retirement assets, according to a recent report by the National Institute on Retirement Security, and half of those households are headed by someone aged between 45 and 65.

This is not your father's 401(k): The retirement product you should know about
Chances are you're like most Americans and, regardless of your age, you aren't saving enough for retirement, if you're actually saving anything at all.

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6 types of financial planners: Which one is right for you?
Selecting a financial planner is a decision you should take seriously.

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Are your retirement savings at risk? Take this quiz to find out
If you regularly contribute to your retirement accounts, that's fantastic -- but you also need to make sure that those funds are safe.

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one of the primary causes of our economic strife is our unhealthy obsession with pleasure derived or generated via spending. But we don't call it pleasure. We call it entertainment, leisure, luxury, blowing off steam, vacation or even fun money.

Column: We have unhealthy obsession with pleasure spending
A big cause of economic strife is our unhealthy obsession with pleasure derived from spending.