People who are living comfortable retirements today typically count on income from employer plans, Social Security, their own investments, and sometimes profits from selling their homes to anchor their financial security.

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.

I recently did a radio show and the topic was types of risk that many people will face in retirement. The main two that I want to go over today is Market Risk and Inflation Risk. Both of these can take a toll on your retirement investments.

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?

How can your 401k benefit your children? Learn some techniques on how to give pass your 401k to your heirs with the least amount of tax as possible.