Monday, February 9, 2009

retire in style

Retire in style
When you are in your 30’s and early 40’s saving plan can seem a rather slow and somehow old fashioned form of investment and because of this it easy to bypass such plan and move onto other types of investment that can ‘yield faster’.
Questions about our retirement that rises at any point either in term of how one have saved so fur or when one except to retire should be responded with some definite answers at any stage of our life. But more often than not this is not always the case.
While most people have fanny fantasies like; when they retire that will be the life, no jangling alarm to wake them up at down ,no more worries about production schedule and personal problem just relaxing days doing what they want to do when they fill like they never seem never seem to address the big question that is:

How do i make sure that i have that much income during my retirement years?
In order to answer this question it important to consider the following

The Current Income
In order to answer this question one need to fully understand the present financial position.
You can’t plan for the future until you know all about your present financial position. Due to the lifestyle creep prevalent in today's society the odds are the more you make today, the more you will need in retirement.

Collection from Social Security and Pension
Nearly half of retired persons depends on social security benefits and pension as there biggest source of income. It's important that you understand this plan thoroughly and can accurately estimate what your benefit will be.
This monthly payment can be subtracted substantially from the amount one may have to save.
Even a self employed individual can set up an individual retirement account (IRA) to save your money there as form of pension.

Investment
If you invest aggressively you can expect a higher rate of return on your investments meaning you will have to save less compared to another individual who insists of keeping all investments in the bank's saving account.
As one begin to think about planning for the future financial security it is important to be very keen on what we are doing. It’s important to note that we are faced with ever increasing cost as we move towards retirement years and hence we must understand inflation
For example if one has a annual benefit of $10000 one need $10,700 following year with an inflation rate of 7% and by the end of a decade it will be $19,675 in order to much the buying power of the first year income of $10,000. Mark this is 7% inflation and currently most economies have hit a 2 digit value in terms of inflation this is enough prove to convince us that our financial planning must take into account the reality of double digit inflation.
The unfortunate thing is except in pension the other retirement benefits do no put this into account

Friday, October 24, 2008

one chance

for them that think that they know me i can only too bad 4 u. You are about to exprience a totaly new dimension of me that will leave you wishing that you never knw me