How’s Your Retirement Preps?

Retirement is one of the things that people look forward to but sometimes fail to prepare for. Being caught up with all your current hurdles in life shouldn’t stop you from gearing up for what will be the future. Your decisions and actions at present shape what your future will be. Still in your 20s? Much better! More time for you to think about the different options you have and plenty of time for you to save up.

What's the point? Disillusionment with pensions sees a quarter of over 50s shun retirement saving - Having suffered through multiple recessions, a global financial crisis, and seen annuity rates plunge to record lows, disillusioned workers may be turning their backs on pensions as they approach retirement.

How Do the Self-Employed Save for Retirement? Erratically - Americans aren’t very good at saving money. The self-employed are even worse. A survey published this week by TD Ameritrade shows that 40 percent of America’s 10 million self-employed workers aren’t saving regularly for retirement and 28 percent aren’t saving at all.

Want to retire early? Punish yourself now - Some “experts” out there would have you believe that when saving for retirement, a little goes a long way. It sounds so easy… if you start saving about $25 a day starting at age 25 and presume a pretty modest 5% annual return, you can retire with over a million dollars by the time you hit age 65!

Planning for Retirement, and Why We Aren't Doing It Right

What are the new opportunities and risks to wealth that are emerging from a world in transition? Top banker Keith Banks explores the markets, health care, retirement savings, tax laws, and notions of risk with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo.

5 Last-Minute Ways To Stash Retirement Cash - The key to lasting financial change is to keep spending in areas that mean the most and cut back in areas that are less crucial, says Stuart Ritter, a senior financial planner with T. Rowe Price investment services firm in Maryland.

Bank Checking For People Looking into Early Retirement - A bank account checking is defined as an account type that permits unlimited withdrawal activity. For the purposes of this guide we will be referring to withdrawal activities including purchases made on a debit card, ATM withdrawals, and bill payments made online, automatically (ACH or Automatic Clearing House), or by paper checks.

The sooner is probably the better when it comes to planning for an early retirement. Whichever way it is we hope that you are in for a brighter future.