The past three months looked and felt pretty much like the previous three quarters, evoking memories of the famous movie, “Groundhog Day”. Seems like we wake up to the same news every day: Markets are slowly advancing and are relatively calm, the economy is on solid...
Changes to Social Security law catch experts by surprise Squirreled away in the federal budget deal passed on November 2nd was an unwelcome surprise for those approaching retirement age: changes to social security rules that effectively put an end to the...
A recent survey by the Nationwide Retirement Institute found that 83% of recent retirees started taking social security before full retirement age. Most people are eligible to claim social security benefits as early as age 62. However, each year that a potential...
Retirement — we refer to it as the “Golden Years.” We imagine retirement as the sunset of our lives, the end cap on a long life that begins with childhood, continues with our journey through the education system, and which then culminates in our career. And...
Even the wealthy aren’t immune to worrying about retirement. That was the conclusion of a new study released by the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute, which found that less than half of people making upwards of $500,000 a year were “strongly confident”...
The Social Security system has repeatedly faced crises over the years, and each time changes were made that resulted in maintaining solvency for an extended period. In 1983, President Reagan signed amendments to the SSA that gradually raised the full retirement age...
