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10 Great Retirement Planning Blogs
There are quite a few excellent financial planning blogs out there – so many that I sometimes wonder why I’m adding my own site to what is already a crowded space in the blogosphere. Then I recall how much of what is out there is misleading, self-serving or just plain incomprehensible. My goal is to provide sound retirement financial planning ideas and advice, written in plain English, without any underlying agenda. I believe investing and financial planning are really quite straightforward if you can tune out the noise. I try to provide enough explanation and references that the curious reader doesn’t just have to take my word for what I’m…
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Use Online Retirement Calculators to Check Your Work
Welcome back! If you’ve read my blog posts up to this point, you should have a pretty fair idea of your financial fitness for retirement: Do you (or will you) have enough money to retire (see this post); How should you manage your money once you stop working (see this post); When should you begin taking social security retirement benefits (see this post and this one); and How can you protect yourself from things that might go wrong (read this post)? You may have reassured yourself that you’re financially on track, or perhaps you’ve identified some weaknesses in your plan that need shoring up. But how do you know you…