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November 3, 2004 05:31 PM

Are You Retirement Ready -- Or Not?


Excerpt: The more conservatively you invest your retirement portfolio, the more likely it is you will run out of money before you run out of life. This is what's known as "longevity risk." It's the risk of outliving your assets.


Dear Friends
I have a confession to make: I'm a pack rat. Make that a selective pack rat. I keep files of information — reports, press releases, studies, etc. — on all sorts of financial topics. But the biggest file by far is the one labeled: "Retirement." It takes up a full drawer. When fresh research crosses my desk, I go through the drawer, cull out older information and add the new.

That's what I was doing when a pattern of sorts emerged. But rather than tell you what I've concluded, I thought I'd lay out the bare facts and ask you to tell me what you think it means. Here are some recent tidbits:

— On average, 45 percent of American workers do not participate in their employer-sponsored retirement plan. 24 percent say it's because they have "other" financial priorities.

I wonder if those other priorities are going to mean much when they're 70.

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How to Avoid Living Like a Poor Student at Age 70 (November 09, 2004)
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What Social Security Might Look Like (November 09, 2004)
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - President Bush plans to make Social Security reform one of the top priorities in his second term. The president says his Cabinet will immediately begin efforts to reform America's ailing system, but he said making changes to the retirement program would ...

Read all 23 posts in the same category of Retirement:

Bush Says Social Security Plan Would Reassure Markets - Dec 17, 2004
Are You Ready To Retire? - Dec 13, 2004
Last-Minute Retirement Planning - Dec 12, 2004
Small Change Adds Up To Big Savings - Dec 09, 2004
Bush To Borrow To Fix Social Security - Dec 07, 2004
Moving Smoothly Into Retirement - Dec 07, 2004
Get Healthy, Get Wealthy - Dec 06, 2004
Five Books to Retire By - Dec 05, 2004
Tax Policy Promotes Early Retirement - Dec 02, 2004
Fidelity Analyzes Pension Performance - Dec 02, 2004
Social Security COLA Increase Looks Puny - Dec 02, 2004
No More IRA Leniency - Nov 29, 2004
To Yield A Good Retirement, Get Real, And Work It Out - Nov 28, 2004
Social Security Reforms On The Way? - Nov 26, 2004
Some New Ways To Preserve Your Retirement - Nov 23, 2004
Living Trust Offers: How to Make Sure They're Trust-Worthy - Nov 22, 2004
How to Forecast a Lifespan - Nov 21, 2004
Be Happy, And Put Retirement Fears to Rest - Nov 21, 2004
Seven Ways to Stop Saying 'Oops!' - Nov 21, 2004
Retirees Don't Have to Be So Frugal: A Case for Withdrawing Up to 6% a Year - Nov 17, 2004
How to Avoid Living Like a Poor Student at Age 70 - Nov 09, 2004
What Social Security Might Look Like - Nov 09, 2004