Planning Your Retirement

The articles offered here guide you through the entire retirement process, from the importance of saving to financial security guidelines and useful tax information. Check out our calculators and Financial Tips, too.

Articles

• Consider Your Personal Inflation Rate

  Keeping your personal inflation rate low will allow you to better estimate your retirement savings needs. Consider these tips.

• The Importance of Saving

  There are many things to consider when saving for the future. The most fundamental factors are to save early and save more.

• Beginning to Think About Retirement Planning

  Any discussion on retirement planning ultimately comes down to a few basic issues.

• Four Components of a Financially Secure Retirement

  Most people identify a financially secure retirement as one of their primary financial goals.

• Fundamentals of Retirement Planning

  Most people identify a financially secure retirement as one of their primary financial goals.

• Rethinking Retirement

  Taking some time to evaluate your overall retirement plan. If you find ways to save more and invest the funds wisely, the retirement you seek may still be possible.

• Retirement Planning Checklist

  Make sure you go to the Human Resource Department or see the Business Manager to handle some of the financial details of your job.

• Reviewing Your Options for a Retirement Plan Distribution

  If you are changing jobs, retiring or being terminated from a job, it is natural to undergo stress and anxiety. These changes are also accompanied by receiving a distribution.

• Seven Ways to Plan for Retirement

  Accumulating the funds you will need for a financially secure retirement can be difficult.

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Calculators

• 401k Savings Calculator

  A 401(k) can be one of your best tools for creating a secure retirement.

• How Long Will My Retirement Savings Last?

  Use this calculator to see how long your retirement savings will last.

• Retirement Account Contribution Accelerator

  A retirement savings program can be one of the best tools you can use for creating a secure retirement. One of the valuable features of many plans is the Contribution Accelerator option which allows you to increase your contributions consistently and automatically each year. With this feature you don't have to remember to increase your contributions; Contribution Accelerator does it for you, allowing you to build your account balance faster. This calculator helps you project what your savings could be if you were to automatically increase your payroll savings each year using Contribution Accelerator (or manually increasing your contributions each year if you don't have the Contribution Accelerator feature).

• Retirement Nestegg Calculator

  Do you know how much it takes to create a secure retirement? Use this calculator to help determine what size your retirement nestegg should be.

• Roth IRA Conversion

  This calculator compares traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs with equal out of pocket costs to estimate the change in total net-worth, at retirement, if you convert your Traditional IRA into a Roth IRA.

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