Before the housing bubble burst, retirement real estate was on a roll. Older Americans could leverage high housing prices to buy second homes, move to the Sun Belt, or just tap into equity to generate cash. The real estate crash of 2008 put a stop to all that. A recent report from The Joint Center [...] [read full article…]
I’m very excited to let you know that I’ve joined Reuters.com as a weekly contributor on retirement, personal finance and public policy issues related to retirement. I’ll be posting at Reuters and continuing to write Retire Smart, my weekly column for Tribune Media Services. This week’s Reuters.com post looks at how deficit hawks are winning [...] [read full article…]
A new report by one of the nation’s most respected retirement research groups confirms the worst fears of pre-retirement Americans: Many of us are on track to run out of money before we run out of years to live. That’s the top-line finding of the 2010 Retirement Readiness Rating from the Employee Benefit Research Institute [...] [read full article…]
USA Today reviewed my new book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security, saying the book “pulls no punches,” on today’s sobering retirement landscape, and “offers ways to build long-term retirement security and boost knowledge on a broad array of topics from money issues, such as 401 (k) plans and managing health care expenses to [...] [read full article…]
Emily Brandon of U.S. News & Word Report offers suggestions for making extra cash in retirement, and includes one of the key suggestions from my book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security – working as an independent entrepreneur: Put your lifetime of accumulated experience to work by taking on consulting work. “By the time you are in [...] [read full article…]
