Financial Literacy, part 15: Securing a comfortable retirement today

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Retirement dreams... or pipe dreams

Make your dreams a reality by investing in your future. Are you saving enough?

		Essentials

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PART 15:	Securing a comfortable retirement today

Your retirement vessel can be a dinghy, yacht or ocean liner. What's your preference for a voyage?

Overview

•	Retirement planning by life stages
•	Rethinking retirement in tough times
•	The 411 on 401(k) accounts
•	Investments that outsmart inflation
•	Where are you on the retirement road map?
•	Retirement is different for women
•	A simple primer on Medicare
•	Asset allocation helps you sleep nights
•	6 keys to retiring overseas

Take action

•	How to wreck your chances to retire
•	Smart ways to downsize your life
•	Next job: Convert your savings to income
•	Protect your surviving spouse
•	Savings for millennials
•	Is an IRA rollover right for you?
•	Cutting health care costs in retirement
•	Spotting 401(k) abuse
•	Readers share retirement strategies

Spotlight

•	Olivia S. Mitchell: Work longer, retire later
•	Barbara Corcoran on ideal retirement locales
•	Nancy Schlossberg: Assess your other portfolio
•	Dave Ramsey says debt is deadly in retirement
•	Bud Hebeler on retirement myths
•	Celebrities talk about money, retirement
•	Jean Chatzky's advice for Bankrate readers