Retirement

The clock is ticking towards your final day on the job. On the other side sits the promise of a proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Or so you have always been told. And you’ve always believed retirement would be just that. If that’s all true, why are you so anxious?

Did you know May 20th is National Pizza Party Day? Not only is this hot-out-of-the-oven treat delicious and nutritious, but it may be a perfect metaphor for your retirement. Can you picture that? “I envision my retirement plan more like a pizza,” says Jonathan Zacks, CEO & Co-Founder of GoReminders in New York City. “The

By Nancy Collamer, Next Avenue A reader recently asked about how to go about finding meaningful part-time work after he retires in a couple of years. “I don’t know where to look for meaningful part-time work,” he wrote. “Next to that is how to reach out. To whom and how? How to get started on

By Constance Brossa, Next Avenue General contractor Sandy DeWeese knows what it’s like to operate in the male-dominated construction sector of what’s known as the “skilled trades.” Because of her gender-neutral name, some unsuspecting prospective clients would open the door when she arrived on site and say, ‘Oh, you’re a woman.’ “There was only one

By Lazetta Rainey Braxton, Next Avenue When I decided to write about Gen X and Money, my interest centered on our financial joys, concerns, trends and the opportunities to position ourselves as the next travelers on the road to retirement. Little did I realize that several columns later, I would be grappling with the term

Topline The stock market tanked on Friday, adding to heavy losses this week that pushed the S&P 500 into a bear market, down over 20% from its intraday peak in January as investors continue to get whipsawed by concerns about inflationary pressures and rising rates. Key Facts The selloff on Wall Street continued with a

Summer travel dreams are in the making. Soon people will be hoping to fill plane seats to travel to destinations delayed during the height of the pandemic. The prices are high but the planes are full — but wait — there is one seat empty. The front left seat. No, not in first class. The

Topline The stock market moved lower on Thursday—pushing the S&P 500 to the brink of bear market territory—as investors continued to offload shares following warnings from major retailers about inflationary pressures, which have added to fears about aggressive rate hikes tipping the economy into a recession. Key Facts The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1%,

Topline Amid heightened recession fears, major Wall Street firms now warn that the ongoing market selloff, which is on track for seven consecutive weeks of losses, could get much worse—with stocks set to plunge by another 20% or so if the economy heads towards a looming recession. Key Facts Recession fears have spiked this week,

Topline The stock market selloff resumed on Wednesday amid reinvigorated fears about surging inflation weighing on economic growth, as several major retailers have now reported that quarterly profits took a hit due to rising cost pressures. Key Facts The selloff on Wall Street intensified by the afternoon: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.5%, over

At long last, a full-length documentary film focused upon the greatest financial challenge facing our aging Baby Boomer population today, as well as younger workers: How to fund a secure retirement that may span decades. For some, retirement may last longer than their working years. The Baby Boomer Dilemma, An Expose of American’s Retirement Experiment

Topline Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has used the ongoing market sell-off as an opportunity to buy the dip and add several new major positions as his investing conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, deployed tens of billions of dollars into stocks during the first quarter, according to new regulatory filings. Key Facts Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway took advantage of

Topline The stock market moved higher on Tuesday in an attempt to bounce back after six consecutive weeks of heavy losses, as investors digested the latest comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who pledged to keep raising interest rates until inflation starts “coming down.” Key Facts Stocks widely rebounded, paring back some of the

Topline With the stock market falling for the last six weeks in a row amid growing concerns about an economic slowdown and the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to combat inflation, an increasing number of Wall Street experts are warning of now “uncomfortably high” recession risks, with rising odds of a downturn within the next

The stock market has taken investors on a wild ride over the past several months. It is during these volatile times that I experience a higher volume of calls from individuals who are concerned about their retirement assets and wondering what they should do. My most concerned callers are those who are getting ready to

2022 has given us plenty of reasons to fear for our financial health—inflation, rising interest rates, and a global conflict are the big three that have sent stock and bond markets into one of the more volatile stretches we’ve seen, at least since the initial shock of pandemic shutdowns roiled markets in 2020. However, as

Those who are retiring now might have waited too long. Don’t let this happen to you. You might be thinking retirement is too far away to worry about. If you plan on claiming your gold watch within the next ten years, it’s not. In fact, if your last day is less than five years away,

It’s nothing new when your stubborn aging parent refuses help. Maybe they have been generally stubborn for as long as you can remember. But with aging, you see them less and less able to do things, and you worry. Aging takes its toll on independence with everyday things like shopping, driving, cooking, and laundry. It

By Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue If you are a boomer or Gen Xer and have wondered why your millennial and Gen Z colleagues work the ways they do, you can be pretty sure they’re wondering the same thing about you. But in their new book, “Gentelligence,” Miami University management professor Megan Gerhardt (a 45-year-old Gen

By Erin Flynn Jay, Next Avenue Consumer inflation accelerated to an annual rate of 7.5% in January, the fastest pace in 40 years, according to the Bureau of Labor. Rising costs of food, energy and shelter inflation hit retirees on fixed incomes the hardest. Like many people who are no longer working, Dolores Macrina, a