People are genuinely afraid of outliving their money in hard times, but solutions are available. I talked about longevity risk recently with Marci Alboher of Encore.org for a Q&A about my new book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security. An American man turning age 65 in 1940-just a few years after Social Security was [...] [...more]
Journalist Kerry Hannon talked with Mike Cuthbert of AARP Radio about her new book, What’s Next? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job. Listen here. [...more]
Second verse – not the same as the first. Journalist Kerry Hannon remixed that old pop hit in the column she wrote for U.S. News and World Report, “Second Acts.” A specialist in careers, retirement and personal finance, Hannon has traveled the country interviewing people who’ve made successful career transitions at midlife–often into very colorful [...] [...more]
If you train for it, the jobs will come. That’s the upshot of a new economic study that attempts to answer one of the toughest questions facing mid-life Americans: Will training for a new career pay off in the form of new career opportunities in a recession-wracked economy? It’s a critical question for workers in [...] [...more]
The Great Recession will push plenty of baby boomers to work past traditional retirement age, but others will keep working simply because they don’t want to stop–or can’t. My friend Barbara Rose has a great feature story in the ABA Journal examining encore careers for boomer attorneys. She notes that more than one-quarter million lawyers [...] [...more]
