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Most everyone dreams of the day they can finally retire and live the life of leisure. Yet recent evidence suggests that most near-retirees and retirees need to do a better job of timing and long-term planning. One study, conducted by the Society of Actuaries, looked at retirement risk factors and concluded that while decisions around [...]

Although many Americans now plan for a retirement up to 20 years, your retirement may last much longer. Believe it or not, living nearly a century may someday soon be almost commonplace. As a result, rather than thinking of retirement as the final stage of life, a more realistic approach may be to view it [...]