A pair of articles we recently discovered on a website called “AZCentral” (part of the USAToday network of news outlets) seems to reinforce the idea that the financial outlook for many retirees can best be described as precarious. These articles, written by reporter Russ Wiles, suggest that too many pre-retirees are tapping their retirement savings … Read more
If you were to ask most Americans how important it is to have a solid understanding of retirement finances, the majority would agree that it’s extremely important, even essential. Saving money (and spending it wisely) is one of the keys to enjoying retirement with enough resources to live the way we want to live. But … Read more
No matter how much you’ve planned, there’s no better time than now to think about your future. We’d like to encourage you to take Five Steps toward Your Financial Security from Social Security. Planning for the future may seem intimidating to many, but we’ve broken the task down into five easy steps: Step 1: Get to … Read more
Just two decades ago, in 1996, the number of people aged 60-64 who were actively employed stood at about 46 percent. Today that number is on the rise, projected to reach 60 percent by 2026. The trend is clear: older workers are putting off retirement and staying on the job longer. We read about this … Read more
It may sound offensive to say it, but compared with men, women have a math problem. At least that’s the conclusion we found in this insightful article that appeared recently on the Reuters website. By “math problem” we don’t mean that women aren’t as good at arithmetic or geometry as their male counterparts. Instead the … Read more
Ah, retirement! It’s just one fancy meal and exotic trip after another, right? Well…maybe for a tiny handful of the über wealthy. For the rest of us, living in retirement means learning to compromise, improvise and economize, since there’s usually a limited amount of resources to spend on things that are purely fun. However, the … Read more
In recent years there has been no shortage of articles about the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM), better known as the reverse mortgage. At AgingOptions we read these articles with a great deal of interest, since questions about these powerful but misunderstood financial tools come up frequently in our LifePlanning Seminars and on our radio … Read more
The so-called “Fiduciary Rule,” an Obama-administration set of regulations designed to protect retirement savers from potentially unscrupulous financial advisers, may not be exactly dead, but it appears to be on life support. That’s the conclusion we draw from a pair of articles that appeared in the national press in recent days. The first article we … Read more
First, let’s consider the good news. Things are looking up on the marriage front, according to multiple researchers. The divorce rate among adults in the 25-39 year old age group went down between 1990 and 2015, dropping more than 20 percent. Among adults in their 40s, the divorce rate is up slightly, but overall is … Read more
The problem of elder financial abuse has been widely reported – in fact, we’ve published several articles about this tragic topic right here on our AgingOptions blog. Often the articles that warn about those who take advantage of seniors seem to concentrate on strangers – the scam artists on the phone or the bogus general … Read more
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