Experienced financial advisors are familiar with the principles of investor psychology. Among them, the “Regret Theory” addresses the emotional reaction clients experience after making what they perceive is an error of judgment. There are…
Published May 17, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Published May 10, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Moms have a lot of rules. To wit… Make your bed every morning. Pick your underwear up off the floor. Don’t waste food. Close the door…were you born in a…
Published April 26, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
It sounds antithetical, if not anticlimactic. Working in retirement?! Isn’t the whole point not to work, ever again? Turns out, not so much anymore. Retirees are returning to part-time work…
Published April 10, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We applaud The National Retirement Planning Coalition (NRPC), led by the Insured Retirement Institute, for raising awareness of the need for comprehensive retirement planning by creating a special week to…
Published April 5, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
From Wikipedia… Well-being is a general term for the condition of an individual or group, for example their social, economic, psychological, spiritual or medical state. Those are all the qualities…
Published March 15, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We’ve heard the word ‘semi-retirement’ tossed around, but we’re never exactly sure what it means. Is it synonymous with early retirement? Is a semi-retired person a retiree-in-training? A provisional retiree,…
Published February 8, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We love sand. Especially on a sunny beach this time of year. Soft, warm and fun to build things with, sand is comforting, fluffy and, the occasional dead jellyfish notwithstanding,…
Published February 2, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We love that quote by Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God. And yet, the old-school notion of a successful retirement is all about comfort, isn’t it? The comfort of…
Published January 19, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
This story in Forbes is a great reminder to all of us here at Fit-To-Retire that we don’t know everything there is to know about retirement. Why? Because we’re still…
Published January 12, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Michael Kitces’ recent column in OnWallStreet beautifully illustrates one of the fundamental principles on which Fit-To-Retire was built: Spending behavior differs dramatically in the first, second and third decades after…