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Retirement Planning: The Time Value of Money

We’ve lost our sense of timing. Not in the genetic sense; we still follow the rhythms of our daily lives. Those patterns are intact. The loss of timing we are experiencing relates to the time value of money. According the economic question, posed in a number of different ways depending on how you might search for the term, asks the reader to answer: would you take X-number of dollars today or wait for a period of time to receive the same amount?

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Retirement Planning: A Cooking Lesson

There are numerous analogies floating about concerning what retirement is. For each of us it represents something different. Perhaps it is only a dream, distant and more or less unfathomable. For others, it might seem close and still too far enough away to embrace the concept that one day you might actually do something different. And for Baby Boomers, the path is much clearer, the distance much closer and the journey much easier to define.

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Is Your Retirement Plan Really Different?

The past several years have re-arranged how we think about retirement. The shift in the “dream” has been the subject of more than one news report on the state of where Boomers are and where their younger cohorts how to be one day. Yet, retirement is and always will be the same: a time when fixed income rules the budget.

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