Archives For Retirement

This post is not about earning extra money on the side. Rather, this is about earning regular money, as your main activity, during your retirement. Offcourse not every elderly can perform every one of these jobs. Some of the jobs definitely require certain fitness level. But, there are some ideas here which almost any retiree or senior person can perform while not being at their best fitness level.

Job options for retirees

Elderly at work

Honestly, I do not want to work during my retirement, I hate to even think about it. But, circumstances, family need, health and marital issues, recession or bad investment decision may force us to work even in our retirement. Then, there’s whopping 50% of US employees who do not have enough retirement saving. This article is for those struggling elders.

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On a lazy Sunday afternoon, while SMB was away with her friend, I was looking at the Google Analytics report to research search ranking of my articles. Google Analytics reports the exact search terms used to visit the blog among various other things. One search term caught my attention. It was “I work as a car cleaner how to use my money earn for my future”.

Retirement saving low wage earner

The search term reminded me of the population (extremely poor) for whom we, personal finance bloggers, never write. I can recall two of my posts that may be relevant to the low wage earners, living life under $10,000 a year and live like in 19th Century to be debt free. These articles are of extreme frugality and require you to give up most good things in life to win against all odds.

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I was going through the Scottrade 6th Annual retirement survey for 2012. Compared to 2011 the trend seemed favorable to what we, the personal finance bloggers, want to see. Americans all across the board started saving more, spending less and the participation in tax deferred accounts increased. Boomers, Gen X are planning actively for their future

Retirement Saving

Scene is still not bright for Gen Yers, on the other hand still have a lot to catch up. Today’s young adults fall in this category, age 18 -28, to be precise. As per the survey, only 63% of working class gen Y hold tax deferred retirement account (employer’s 401(k) or IRAs). Still there’s a ray of hope:

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Last time we talked about some do’s and don’ts of annuity investment.  Here’s a story about what to do with your annuity investment, if you are looking for some alternative. Let it be clear that if you are looking to rollover your annuity investment in to an IRA, you can only do it if your original annuity was bought under an IRA investment. Else you can’t roll over this in to an IRA account. Here’s an expert advice from CNN Money explaining the process.

Retirement Saving Options

I do not have any annuity in my retirement portfolio. I was planning to buy one but figured out that we are better served with employer 401(k) and TD Ameritrade IRA account that we have. We are young couple now and we can risk investing in variable return investment in our retirement account. We do not particularly want assured minimum fixed return that a typical annuity offers. If you have an investment already made in annuity and you want to cash out it, may this article help you.

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Self-managed super funds, or SMSFs, are one of the seven types of superannuation funds available to Australians. If you’re considering which type of super fund is best for you, be sure you know what SMSFs are all about.

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When choosing your super fund, it pays to know your options. If you think a SMSF is for you, then make sure you get all the information about this popular type of superannuation fund that many Australians choose for their retirement and their financial future.

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