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Retire Smart
For millions of Baby Boomers, retirement is an opportunity for reinvention, rather than taking it easy. Mark Miller, a respected Chicago-based business and media expert, is helping write the playbook for the new professional and personal pursuits of a generation. Using up-to-the minute research and reader-friendly technology, Retire Smart covers news and trends about careers, personal finance, family, travel, health, real estate, volunteering and education. The column offers readers sophisticated advice, timely interviews with other notables in the field and access to the latest digital sources of information. Miller also welcomes questions from readers.
Retire Smart Samples
The New Retirement Plan: Watch the Expense Side of the Equation
How much will you need to live on in retirement? Ellen Wagner tossed the rule of thumb out the window when she retired in 2008.
Reader Mailbag: Weighing Taxes Vs. Fees On a Roth IRA Conversion
Q: Your recent column on converting a traditional IRA to a Roth states that if you pay the conversion taxes out of the Roth IRA you just created, you'll protect more of the assets remaining in your traditional IRA and the assets in our taxable acc...
To Understand Your 401K Plan, Just Focus on the Fees
If you've spent hours analyzing the investment strategies of the mutual funds in your retirement portfolio, here's some bad news: You could have saved a lot of time just focusing on the fees.
Doing the Math on Early Social Security Benefits
A recent column on how to maximize your Social Security benefits inspired some readers to fire up their spreadsheet programs. The column was excerpted from my book, "The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security".
Doing the Math on Early Social Security Benefits
A recent column on how to maximize your Social Security benefits inspired some readers to fire up their spreadsheet programs. The column was excerpted from my book, "The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security".
Misunderstandings Are Rampant on Health Care Reform and Medicare
When it comes to health care reform, seniors are in the dark. A new national poll reveals that many adults over age 65 are misinformed or confused about the impact of the new law on their Medicare benefits, physicians and the federal budget deficit.
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