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Banks Across the Country Rising Hidden Costs

Banks around the country are just as or even more guilty of giving your retirement savings a run for its money with rising hidden fees! Read More

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5 Ways You’re Sabotaging your Retirement Finances

While navigating the pit-falls of retirement, you might in fact be unknowingly sabotaging your own retirement plan. Read More

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Retirement Savings: Is there a right way to save?

There are many ways individuals go about preparing their retirement savings. Some individuals want to create a retirement budget suitable to their current lifestyle; others want to incorporate retirement travel, or are focused on saving for health insurance costs. Read More


6 Excuses for Not having Retirement Savings

As children, the go-to excuse was “my dog ate it”. As we grew older and matured the excuses got longer, more detailed, but equally as unbelievable. There are countless excuses for not adequately saving for retirement; some based on the dog-ate-it mentality, but others are quite understandable. Read More

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Senior Social Security Re-do: get more from your benefits!

You get do-over’s in sports, sometimes at work, rarely on first impressions, and now you get it with your senior social security. Read More

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8 Tough Retirement Questions You Need to Ask

Back in the good ol’ days retirement was simple; when you hit retirement age you stopped working and started receiving senior social security. Read More

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Are Women Confident About Retirement Investing?

How confident do you feel about your retirement assets and your retirement investing? According to a recent survey conducted by MassMutual, women in particular have less confidence in their retirement investing decisions and the stock market compared to men. Read More

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Stay in Control of your Retirement Spending

Are you scared to dive into your retirement investments? Is your retirement spending spiraling out of control because you don’t know where your retirement income is coming from? Read More

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5 Finance Lessons For Your Retirement

Who knows everything there is to know about finances? Well, nobody actually. However, the experts at Retirement Finances and financial advisor and mentor Kim Snider put their heads together to create 8 financial lessons that will come in handy for your retirement. Read More

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Affordable and Fun Retirement Activities to Try

Retirement used to be the time in a person’s life where they would slow down. A time to relax, no longer work, and focus on one or two retirement activities you deemed enjoyable. However, times have changed and retirement is now a time to stretch those wings and enjoy! Read More

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5 Retirement Investing Blunders

Retirement investing takes a lot of time to learn the trade. The basic mantra of buy low and sell high is good in theory, but how does it exactly take place, and how do you buy low and sell high? Read More

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The Best Retirement Investments for Continuous Retirement Income

Everyone is looking for retirement investments that can really make an impact on their retirement income –positively. However, knowing which retirement investment strategies work, which have payouts over time and which give you money up front takes a bit of research. Read More

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Retirement Travel Tips for Staying on Budget

For many, retirement travel is a reward for the decades of 9-5 workweeks. Traveling to places both domestic and international allows you not only to experience new places and activities, but research has shown it also helps keep an older couple thriving in their relationships. Read More