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Monthly Archives: March 2010


Restore and Rethink Your Retirement Dreams by Reevaluating Your Retirement Portfolios

Below is a great check list for retirement planning that came my way courtesy of TIME magazine worth sharing as we take a second (or third) look at our retirement portfolio and wonder if it is on the right track to meet our retirement dreams.  Retirement Planning Rethink — and Restore — Your Retirement Dreams Get [...]

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How Much Is Needed to Comfortably Retire? Plan Your Retirement Portfolio Strategy Now

This mornings Wall Street Journal Sunday had a compelling yet alarming article ‘Do You Have Enough to Retire? Do the Math‘ that highlights the lack of a retirement portfolio strategy for many of the 80 million baby boomers. “Just how much are you going to need in order to retire comfortably?” the article challenges each of [...]

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Retirement Portfolios Underfunded, Study Reveals — Time to Start Saving

A recent study released by ratelines.com reveals that most Americans retirement portfolios are underfunded, resulting in many being unprepared for retirement.  ”Of the 1,153 workers surveyed, 43% have less than $10,000 set aside in their savings accounts for retirement. Approximately 27% of the workforce have less than $1,000 saved. Both percentages have increased since 2009 reports.”  Though the [...]

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From Warren Buffett: Advice Helpful for an IRA Rollover

Warren Buffett is our generation’s Benjamin Franklin, a humble billionaire full of great advice, quips and invaluable insights.  While he never gives direct investment advice, one can gleen some helpful hints about investing in one’s IRA Rollover account. To paraphrase Warren, most investors should “do as I say, not as I do.”  The world’s greatest [...]

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Resurrecting a Retirement Portfolio — Good Advice and A Warm Glass of Milk

Has your retirement portfolio – or lack there of- got you up at night? If so, consider reading an excellent round-up article by Jan Rosen of the New York Times ‘Now Is A Perfect Time to Reconstruct A Nest Egg‘ that provides an excellent primer on IRA investing. Even though many investors have been hit [...]

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Watch Out For Unnecessary Fees In Your IRA

Despite the fact that money is not everything, we all want to reach retirement healthy and financially stable, highlighting the importance of maximizing one’s IRA .  The last few years has definitely shaken that ideal at the core, making it a bit harder for one to believe they will retire as once imagined. This reality [...]

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Study Reveals Indexing Wins Again

For those that have taken to indexing over the last several years, we have John Bogle, pioneer of indexing and founder of The Vanguard Group and Vanguard index funds, to thank. A recent study by Standard & Poor’s revealed that “actively managed mutual funds beat their benchmark index in 2009. No surprise here: Just 39.2 [...]

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Avoiding Mutual Funds Fees and Retire Earlier

The more you read, the more you will uncover the ongoing discussion of how mutual funds are being challenged to reveal the true costs of investing in them.  As an article I recently ran across by Ruthie Ackerman demonstrates, “Ask a broker why 12b-1 fees exist and you’ll get a variety of answers. The fees [...]

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Behind Closed Doors – The Untold Story About Diversification

Have you ever been a part of one of those trusted conversations where you become privy to information that is so powerful it would disrupt the status quo? Think of the conversations that occur behind closed doors at the White House, corporate boardrooms or U.S. Central Command. We all understand that there are elements of [...]

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