Ask someone over 50 what they want to do after retirement, and you may well get this answer: “Keep working!” Surveys suggest that more than 75 percent of the baby boom generation plans to keep working past traditional retirement age. But it’s not likely that many will keep laboring away in Corporate America. Most boomers [...] [read full article…]
The financial planning profession is growing explosively as millions of aging baby boomers confront the challenges of planning for retirement security. Readers of this column have been writing to ask if they need a planner-and how to go about hiring one. Retirement planning poses complex challenges-and investing wisely is just one part of the picture; [...] [read full article…]
The economic downturn and mortgage crisis are turning a growing number of Americans into retirement account raiders. The number of Americans tapping into their 401(k) savings accounts to pay debts or to fund other immediate financial needs rose sharply last year. The situation worsened during the first quarter this year as the mortgage crisis heated [...] [read full article…]
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched [...] [read full article…]
There was a time-not long ago-when we didn’t use computers or digital media players to manage our music collections or watch TV. Now we could be approaching something like an era of iPods for aging. At least, that’s Eric Dishman’s vision of the near-term future. Dishman spearheads a major initiative to develop “personal health technologies” [...] [read full article…]
