The Retirement Café

In my last post, The Risk of Retiring (or Being Retired) Early , I provided some thoughts about the risk of retiring early and perhaps exten...

I’m going to briefly depart from my typical retirement finance post to talk about ID theft and retirees, who are frequent targets of this cr...

Financial journalist, Mark Miller, recently asked me to provide input on a piece he is doing about retiring early . Early retirement is clea...

I got into an interesting discussion with some friends on FaceBook the other day about what Americans can reasonably expect from retirement....

Some great questions and comments about my previous posts on spending in retirement, beginning with Spending Typically Declines as We Age , ...

I noted in a recent blog post that Spending Typically Declines with Age  after we retire. In a follow-up post, Retirement Spending Assumptio...

In my last post, Spending Typically Declines as We Age , I reviewed the results of research by David Blanchett ( PDF ) and Sudipto Banerjee ...

The Retirement Income Industry Association® (RIIA) today announced that Financial Planner Dirk Cotton , author of Th e Retirement Café blog ...

The most common assumption of retirement spending strategies is that real (inflation-adjusted) spending from savings will be flat throughout...

The following post originally appeared on Advisor Perspectives , a blog for financial planners, in April 2015. Perhaps no other retirement...

We could easily name ten or twelve retirement income strategies but several of them are really just variations on a theme. When you're t...