/home/content/42/7547942/html Free information about retirement planning, financial planning, estate planning, and more. Find licensed financial advisors in your area to help plan your financial future. Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:01 -0700 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Copyright 2010-2012 RetirementEgg.com All rights reserved. The history of retirement in the United States has its roots in the earliest days of Massachusetts. In 17th-century Plymouth colony, a colonist wounded defending the town against Indians would receive a pension to support himself and his family. Since the colonist was no longer able to farm or perfo ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/the-history-of-retirement A Certified Financial Planner (CFP) is a financial adviser who has met the rigorous educational, experience, and examination requirements to earn the CFP designation from the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards in the US, or the Financial Planner Standards Council in Canada. Although ther ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/certified-financial-planners At the core of retirement planning are two questions: when can I retire? and how long will my investments last? In this article, we’ll come up with answers to the first question. Determining when you can retire is based on multiple factors: how much money you currently have invested for retirement ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/when-can-i-retire Planning for retirement as a self-employed person isn’t as straightforward as it is for corporate employees. There are no corporate 401(k)s, pensions, or other sponsored plans to fall back on. Chances are that you’ve paid many hard-earned dollars towards the self-employment retirement tax, but y ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/retirement-planning-for-the-self-employed Choosing a financial adviser is a process that requires time, patience, and a clear understanding of what you are looking for in a financial professional. While there are many experienced, qualified financial advisers in the industry, finding the one that matches your style, expectations, and financ ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/best-financial-advisors Most investors choose to work with some form of a financial adviser to take advantage of professional investment advice, retirement planning help, and simply to take some of the burden of investing off their shoulders. In this article we will talk about five of the top-rated full-service nationwide ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/retirement-companies In today’s world, workers can no longer rely on company pensions to get them through retirement. While this change in the traditional order of things can be stressful, it also provides opportunities for alternate retirement strategies. In this article, we will discuss four alternative ways to fund ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/retirement-strategies Financial planning is the process of assessing your current financial situation, establishing future financial objectives, estimating current and future needs, and developing a plan to meet them. Financial planning often involves a combination of budgeting, investing, asset allocation, risk assessme ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/what-is-financial-planning One of the most important steps in developing a retirement plan is determining how much money you will be spending each year of your retirement. While we can’t plan for all eventualities, developing a budget for retirement around the expenses we can predict will help determine how much needs to be ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/how-to-budget-for-retirement There are many different varieties of financial advisers. Broadly, they are: advisers who charge commissions on trades, advisers who charge account fees, and fee only financial planners. Fee only financial planners are paid only by their client and do not receive commissions or load fees from invest ... /home/content/42/7547942/html/articles/fee-only-financial-planners