Since the stock market has made back some lost ground and seems to be a bit more stable than it has been, I’d like to address a topic that is …
Tick, Tock: How Time Touches So Many Aspects Of Retirement Planning
If there’s one asset class that’s become much more valuable than all of the others, it’s time. It’s finite, making it scarce. It’s fluid, making it difficult to firmly grasp. …
If You Could Time Your Last Dollar With Your Last Breath
I often suggest that good financial planning means we die with money left over. Conversely, that must mean that bad financial planning means we run out of money before we …
Simple Process For Transforming Your New Year
Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? Do you also keep New Year’s Resolutions? I’ve kept just one in all the years I’ve tried to make them. What is it, you …
The Antidote To A Stressful Retirement
You may or may not be aware that I write a quasi-financial column for The Suburban Press called Beyond the Money. In it, I have the opportunity to share thoughts on …
Three Stages of the Typical Retirement
It’s easy to think of retirement as one thing, one phase of life that we all aspire to experience. And why not? After all, retirement is such a stark contrast …
Athletes Have Them, Why Not Retirees Too?
If you read last week’s Weekly (click here if you missed it), you know that I spoke about a retiree’s ‘inner game’, the deep-down motives for or against retiring, as …
Your First Memory of Money?
A few years ago I was talking with a man who was contemplating retirement. He and his wife had worked very hard for a long time and had accumulated considerable …
In Others’ Words…
How about a change of pace? It turns out that just about everyone has something to say about money. This week I bring you not my own words, but those …
Briefcase Study: Transition into Retirement
A number of couples that we work with recently found themselves working through a change in their life: the transition into retirement. When a long career ends, what steps might …
