How do you know you’ve invested your hard-earned money well enough to have a successful retirement? Can you be sure that your investments are going to grow into larger balances and be there right at the point of retirement? Have you spent enough time choosing the right retirement investments? These questions are hard for most of us to answer with any degree of … [Read more...] about Choosing the Right Retirement Investments: “If you can’t draw it with a crayon, you can’t own it” (Part 1)
Boomers in Action
Plan to Retire with a Full Plate: a Resolution
Well, here we are at the end of January already. Have all of your New Year’s resolutions fallen by the wayside yet? Once again, to keep the pressure off, I chose not to make any specific resolutions, but rather to enhance the few good habits I started last year: Check, check and check. Now I can start playing with a new idea that came along … [Read more...] about Plan to Retire with a Full Plate: a Resolution
Defining “Leading Edge” Baby Boomers
Leading Edge Boomers are those who started it all. They are the dynamic retiring baby boomers shaping the very definitions of what it means to be retiring. This leading group of the Boomer generation were born from 1946 to 1955, and the first wave turned 65 in 2011. They grew up in a time of prosperity and general comfort. They pushed the norms of … [Read more...] about Defining “Leading Edge” Baby Boomers
Defining “Lagging Edge” Baby Boomers
If you were born from 1956 to 1964, you are part of the retiring baby boomer generation that I call the "Lagging Edge Boomers", or the younger boomers. Since the Boomer generation is so large (it spans 19 years - from 1946 to 1964), it is nearly impossible to find common ground for everyone born into this vibrant demographic group. By splitting … [Read more...] about Defining “Lagging Edge” Baby Boomers
The New Boomer Retirement: Packing Your Life History into 16 Boxes
One of the reasons I started Boomer Retirement Briefs was to share how other boomers are making their way through the retirement planning process. What are folks creating in this new era of living? We Boomers no longer consider a slow and fading “retirement.” It’s about the “new boomer retirement.” Depending what you've been reading over the years, … [Read more...] about The New Boomer Retirement: Packing Your Life History into 16 Boxes
