You can eliminate your fear of retirement income planning by taking some direct action – and I’m going to spell out exactly what those actions are. The good news is, you don’t have to be a financial professional to retire well. But before I lay it out in detail, let me put a spotlight on a […]
Retirement Planning
This category is the heart and soul of Wealth Pilgrim. Here you’ll find a host of information created to help you reach your retirement goals and enjoy the journey. These are nuts-and-bolts articles to help you understand where you are now, identify where you want to be and when you want to get there, and design a roadmap to help you do so.
Boost Your Retirement Income by 23% by Avoiding these Investment Mistakes
You might be walking away from a huge chunk of your retirement income for no good reason. You don’t need to make the best retirement investments, you just have to avoid the worst. Over the course of a 35-year career, the typical 401k member losses 23% of his or her retirement funds because s/he makes […]
Should You Accept an Early Retirement Package?
If you’ve been offered a retirement package, how do you decide whether or not to take it? That question haunted Jenny for the last 12 months. Her employer was forced to reduce staff and offered Jenny and a number of other long-term employees an early retirement package (he didn’t know how to run a successful […]
Would You Take an Early Retirement Package if This Happened to You?
Would you take an early retirement package over a job? Even if you really needed the money, would you tell your boss to,”take this job and shove it” in this economy? Tim did. What makes this story interesting is that he and his wife really needed to make more money. I mean…really needed the money. […]
Prepare for Retirement Now – Before It’s Too Late!
It’s time to prepare for retirement. Even if you think you know when you’re going to retire, chances are high that you’ll retire sooner than you think you will…ready or not. Just like it’s smart to get the cheapest term life insurance as soon as possible, it’s also smart to get going on your retirement […]
How to Improve Your Financial Situation for Free
Does your financial situation resemble a toxic dump site? There is a great deal of discussion about “toxic assets” and how they have dragged our nation into its current financial dilemma. But in my opinion, the “toxic assets” are only a symptom of the root problem — the mindset of the people who made terrible […]