If you want to retire, then you better put your money to work. View your retirement savings as a little army that is going to fight for your future income.

Approximately 66 million people today receive some form of Social Security benefits, including retirement, disability, survivor, and family benefits.

We all need help yet we only think of ourselves when it comes to asking for help, very seldom do we think of asking the people in our lives if they need help. That needs to change.

I recently read a Forbes Magazine article by Michael Schmidt dated August 27, 2013 named Don’t Take Dividends for Granted. The name itself caught my attention.

Depending on the type of Mutual Fund, they can have stocks, bonds and other investment instruments diversified together and managed by a professional manager. Sounds great, sign me up!

You’ve grown tired of commuting to a job where you sit in a cubicle and do someone else1s bidding.

After 18 years in the financial services business, I’ve spoken to a lot of people. And in every first meeting with someone, I always ask the question, “What are you concerned about heading into retirement?”

In 1966 the Guinness Book of Records named J. Paul Getty the richest private citizen in the world. At his death in 1976, his net worth was estimated at more than $25 billion (in today’s dollars).

Let’s look at some of the richest people in the music industry and see what lessons we can learn and how we can apply these lessons to our own retirement planning.

Why do we look to the market indexes for our benchmark for success or failure with investing? Are there other benchmarks we should be looking at?