A Web search on the keywords “save for retirement” will return somewhere in the neighborhood of 43 million results. There’s no shortage of opinions and guidance about saving for retirement, but you may not see how it relates to you.
It can be summed up in one word: choices. While your pension is a valuable benefit that will provide income in retirement, your personal savings can make the difference in the flexibility you have – about your lifestyle, whether or not you want to continue to work and how far each dollar will stretch in your post-career life. Today’s retirees often say that health care costs alone take a greater chunk of that dollar than they expected.
You may have already done the planning and crunched the numbers, paid off any debt, and decided that your pension will be all you need. Or, you may have decided that personal savings will also be an important part of your future.
How to start or increase what you’re already doing? We have unbiased, helpful tips and resources on our Web site, including links to:
You’ll find the above and more on our home page under National Save for Retirement Week, which we helped to celebrate October 21 - 27. If you’d like to see more or different information on our Web site, just e-mail us. We’ll be glad to do all we can to help.
November/December 2007 Retirement Planning Edition