Women and retirement planning
A lot of the attention to retirement planning has been spent on preparing men for retirement. That's a crock since women are going to live longer than men. And still have the rest of the retirement savings, what's left of it anyway, to use.
But, if a majority of male baby boomers are having trouble saving for retirement, are female baby boomers in the same boat?
You don't have to answer.
This lens will talk about how women can plan for their retirement and start saving for their retirement lives.
Setting up a retirement plan and saving for your retirement may be many years away for you but, if you start early, especially in your twenties and thirties and do that until you retire in your fifties and sixties, you'll have a much more comfortable retirement than your female counterparts who didn't save anything and now are relying on the government to help them out.
Planning for your retirement may seem too far in the future but it can be here before you know it and the sooner you start saving the better off you'll be when it sneaks up on you.
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Why the emphasis on preparing women for retirement?
Women don't work as long as men do at the same job. This is due to taking time off to care for the family to raise the kids. So women don't build up the required years to qualify for a sizable pension or retirement plan, leaving them with little or no savings from the company's they are working for.
Women live longer than men. If you retire at 55, you can expect to live another 27 years on average. Men can expect to live another 23 years on average. If you're married and your husband was the bread winner and you have no retirement savings of your own, where will the income come from for those extra 4 years?
Women also are risk averse when it comes to investing, choosing to invest in conservative investments and bonds which have guaranteed returns but lower overall returns. You'll preserve your capital but you won't have much to show for it when you retire and start drawing on those savings. So the choice is either have more money working for you in low, but safe, investment vehicles as you near retirement or invest more aggressively.
Either way, women need to read about retirement planning as much or even more so than men because you will be spending more of your life in retirement. Talk to a financial advisor, read retirement planning books and check out all the free resources out there to help you save for your retirement. Most people have less than $60,000 saved in a 401k or IRA. There is no way this will last men or women for 20+ years of retirement. The government is not going to be able to supplement everyone...
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