Facts - women live longer than men, a woman can expect to spend the last 10 years of her life alone, women divorced after 50 will not remarry, second marriages fail 60% of the time, women may take 10 years to regain her predivorce financial status, women care for their children but they will also be the caretakers for their parents, by 2010 it is estimated that women will control the majority of the wealth in the US. So no matter who makes the financial decisions for your family now - all women should prepare to be their own financial planners, wealth managers and decision makers towards the end of their lives. (more…)

If you have never considered RV life to be one of the best ways to retire early… think again. A lot of people do it, they enjoy the lifestyle, and it can be a very frugal way of retirement living. We RVed for 6 years for 6 to 22 month stretches at a time. (more…)

When you retire, are you going to have enough money to meet all your expenses and keep up with inflation? If you are like the vast majority of us, your answer will be a resounding, “NO”!

Statistically, 95% of people retire with too few financial resources. (more…)

Investors everywhere are choosing to go with a physical gold IRA over traditional IRA’s that contains stocks, bonds, mutual funds or money market accounts. Putting physical gold into a retirement account has many advantages, but remember that no investment is guaranteed.

Typically, paper investments, like stocks and bonds, have been used for IRA’s. (more…)

Retirement and retirement income systems are relatively new and evolving institutions. Paradoxically, industrialization created both the need and the opportunity for the nation’s “old-age retirement income support system.” Improvements in nutrition, sanitation, and public health led to more people reaching old age and living longer once they were there. (more…)

It’s remarkable how pervasive the relatively recent notion of retirement has become. Retirement as we now know it didn’t exist prior to the 1930s. Social Security was developed and promoted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Dealers as a way to convince older workers to retire in order to open up jobs for young people during the Great Depression. Since then Social Security benefits have been expanded dramatically. (more…)

A 401k plan is a retirement account set up by an employer into which employee put aside some of his/her salary into the account. It is named defined contribution plan because the annual amount of money that can be given to each employee account is defined. This 401k plan program does not assure a defined retirement benefit when employees withdraw their money when it is mature. (more…)