You’re finally ready to move up from your rental unit to your own home. Before you start searching for a home, understand how much money you’ll really need. Be prepared for the myriad expenses that you must add to the…
Health costs rise with age and the level of a retiree households modified adjusted gross income. Typical costs can be either transitory or persistent. Transitory costs, such as breaking an ankle playing pickleball or the slip of the knife in…
A 2020 white paper by Wenliang Hou for the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College looked at the differences between how retirees perceived retirement risk issues compared to what empirical evidence shows. The five key risks evaluated were 1.)…
