How much do you need to retire? Once you know what your golden years will need from you, you can begin to make them happen now.
This tutorial addresses women's retirement issues and how they can improve on their situations.
Let’s look at the housing aspect of retirement, focusing on retirement communities and advantages of different locations.
This tutorial defines a number of terms commonly used in retirement plans. It will also come in handy as you study plans in more depth.
Social Security and Medicare are vital parts of retirement. To get the most out of them, you must understand how they work.
Aging brings a set of risks that affect your financial well-being. Your lifespan, your health, and your money all intertwine to affect your ability to meet your expenses in your later years. Learn about the most common such risks and learn ways to cope with them.
Good retirement planning starts by knowing what you want your later years to look like, then crafting a plan to make it happen.
For those who do not have a retirement plan at work, the IRA can be an effective alternative.
457 plans are retirement plans for employees of government bodies and certain nonprofits. In this tutorial we discuss how they work.
Learn how this retirement plan provides special tax benefits such as tax-deferral to its participants.
Learn about the 401(k), a staple among retirement plans. This tutorial covers contributions, distributions, and the Roth version.
Learn how your 401(k) fees work, what they are for, what they might cost, and how they affect your balance.
Learn how automatic savings and investment plans build wealth over time and which investments can be suitable for these plans.
Whether your retirement might include work or just a lot of leisure, start thinking and planning ahead of time.
To save a nest egg for your later years, you need to budget for it. This tutorial provides some perspective on budgeting for retirement.
What types of investments will make the most of the tax advantages that employer-sponsored retirement plans and IRAs have to offer?
Withdrawing your hard-earned money in retirement is perhaps the most challenging part of retirement planning, as we will see here.
Taking withdrawals from your retirement portfolio can be complicated, but with the bucket approach, you can make it easier on yourself.
This is a topic that keeps many an investor awake at night -- is your portfolio on track to fund your retirement?
There are many avenues to a secure retirement, but they all benefit greatly if they have tax advantages.
Discover two rarer types of individual retirement accounts beyond the traditional and the Roth: SIMPLE IRAs and SEP-IRAs.
A reverse mortgage may or may not be a good option for your later years; you can help yourself decide with this tutorial.
Taking out your money is the fun part of your retirement plan. But there are serious things you must know before the fun begins.
You can't just craft any old savings plan for retirement. You have some things to account for, such as time, volatility, and taxes.
When the day comes to start enjoying all that money in your IRA, be prepared. Know the options and the limitations.
One of the joys of having an IRA is taking a tax deduction on it. Of course, there are rules you must know in order to do it.
Knowing the contribution rules for different retirement plans can help you plan accordingly for your retirement.
Learn what it means for an annuity to be fixed. Also learn some strategic considerations for investing in fixed annuities.
Learn what it means for an annuity to be deferred. Also learn some strategic considerations for investing in deferred annuities.
If you are considering buying life insurance, consult this tutorial to learn where to start.
Whole life insurance has an investment component that makes it popular with a lot of people.
Yes, you can cut your taxes once you're retired. But the trick is to know how, preferably while you're still working.
Learn what it means for an annuity to be variable. Also learn some strategic considerations for investing in variable annuities.
Variable and universal life insurance are a twist on cash value life insurance. Let’s see how they work.
The Roth IRA has advantages that make it invaluable to many investors saving for retirement.