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Carla Fried started reporting on retirement way back when the 401k was a new-fangled oddity (i.e., the mid '80s). As a senior writer at Money magazine in the 1990s, she wrote extensively on retirement planning and investment and covered a wide range of personal financial topics, from real...- more about Carla Fried »
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- Obama Retirement Fix: No Day at the Beach
- The Obama Administration's recent tweak to policy makes it easier to bank unused vacation days in your retirement account. As much as Americans need to save more for retirement, using the vacation days could be a smarter retirement planning strategy by Carla Fried
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Retirement: The Hidden Health Risk
- In the year since the financial crisis hit, I've been struck how just about any retirement planning issue these days boils down to the same solution: Delay your retirement, and all will be good. Watched your 401k vaporize? Just plan to work a few years longer to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Do Seniors Really Need Obama's Costly COLA Substitute?
- The political cost of no Social Security cost-of-living-adjustment COLA in 2010 seems to be about $250 per retiree. That’s the value of a special Social Security payout President Obama proposed last week, timed to offset the news that for the first time since the Social Security COLA was introduced in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- No Promotion? Blame It on the 401(k)
- Yep, yet another reason to pile even more scorn on the the flawed 401k: A just-released GAO study that takes a look at the 401k auto-enrollment trend presents an interesting motivation for why employers are warming up to auto-enrollment: “A representative of a large plan consulting firm noted that...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Game On: How Long Will You Live?
- After playing around with some online longevity calculators, I face this conundrum: If I don’t build up my retirement stash to support me until I'm 95, my next best option might be to take up recreational drugs and increase my alcohol intake. by Carla Fried
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Gen Xers Face Retirement Trouble
- Baby Boomers get all the attention when it comes to the retirement-savings crunch, but Gen Xers are actually in worse shape. Fifty-six percent of Gen X households will lack the savings and assets to retire well. by Carla Fried
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Retirees Plan on Going Broke
- Americans expect to spend down their retirement savings at a 10 percent annual rate says Wells Fargo's annual Retirement Fitness Survey. And that's a sure-fire recipe for financial disaster. by Carla Fried
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- The New Retirement Risk: Decisionmaking Skills Peak at 53
- Financial decision-making skills peak at age 53. Yet retirees need to still be making smart choices into their 70s and beyond. Welcome to yet another retirement risk. by Carla Fried
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Investor Manifesto: Is Nausea the Key to Success?
- Top investing mind William J. Bernstein has written an easy-to-read retirement road map for individual investors. The Investor's Manifesto flips the focus from "getting rich" to making sure you don't die poor. by Carla Fried
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Indicator to Watch: 401(k) Match
- The good news: More firms that slashed or suspended their 401k matching contribution now say they plan on reinstating the benefit in 2010. The not so good news: some employer matches will be less generous than before. by Carla Fried
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Lip Service Popular Retirement Planning Strategy
- It's clear we know we need to save more to ensure a secure retirement. But for all the lip service given to the new realities of retirement planning, we're still coming up short--way short--on putting our money where our mouths are. by Carla Fried
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Investor Expectations Down 25 Percent: Welcome to the New Normal
- Vanguard’s Center for Retirement Research recently checked in with 3,000+ regular folks not economists or market diviners to gauge our post-crash expectations. The median of our collective crystal-balling settled on 7.5 percent as the expected average annual return for the markets going forward. That might sound downright...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Get Your Kids to Help Pay for Retirement
- If I had $10 for every time a financial advisor I am interviewing utters “There are no loans for retirement, but there are loans for college,†my SEP-IRA would be in a lot better shape. But my radar always starts beeping when I hear that. Sure, I know it makes...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Why 401(k) Auto-Enrollment Is Seriously Flawed
- In 2006 Congress finally got around to addressing one of the easier-to-confront shortcomings of the 401k: the fact that about 25 percent of folks eligible to join a plan don’t bother. Thanks to the Pension Protection Act, employers now can more easily automatically enroll employees in the plan. That’s a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- The Payoff from Retiring Later
- Given the ferocity of the recent bear market mauling, odds are even a stock market rebound isn't enough to get your retirement plan back on track. The truth is you're probably going to have to work a few years longer. How to stay in the game... Let's get real. In...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Working Longer and Liking It
- Like it or not, in today's rapidly shrinking economy you're almost certainly going to have to postpone your retirement by a few years. Alicia Munnell, who heads the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, outlines how to stay in the game as long as you need — and...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- How to Spot a Bottom
- Is the recent rebound a sign that the stock market has finally bottomed? Or is it just a dead-cat bounce in a stubborn bear market? Only hindsight will tell for sure. But history offers some useful clues. Find out what economic indicators to watch for signs of a real...
- Articles 2009-04-04
- Rebuild Your Retirement Savings
- If you are in your 40s or younger, you probably have time to rebuild your savings before retirement. If you are in your 50s or older, and you had a lot of your 401k money in the stock market, you likely face a far grimmer truth: you may not be...
- Articles 2009-04-17
- Can You Afford to Retire ... Ever?
- The "new normal" retirement will start at 67, not 62. You'll pay for it with investments that don't even exist today. And you'd better start saving now. You know what happened...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- After the Great Recession
- The recession will end eventually. And the economy, the workplace, and the markets will return to something we'll learn to call normal. But it won't be like any normal you've seen before.So, where do we go from here? The world's most powerful economy has...
- Articles 2009-06-22
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