Comments on: Can You Afford To Retire? http://www.sinletter.com/2006/05/can-you-afford-to-retire/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:33:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: AF http://www.sinletter.com/2006/05/can-you-afford-to-retire/comment-page-1/#comment-84 AF Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sinletter.com.php5-6.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com/?p=223#comment-84 I watched this on PBS and was entranced. Below are the time of some of the parts I really liked. Just a month or so before I was talking with a colleague and said that I do not think the 401K numbers work out for me. Below are directions to some of the best sections By the Part and a time in minutes and seconds. If you watch nothing else check out "Who should manage your retirement" and "Pension VS. 401K Defined Contribution". Who should manage your retirement? Part 3: 14:30 ‘ ask CEO about letting the water boy manage the corporate retirement account’ Part 3: 2:20 (how a 401k works) Pension VS. 401K Defined Contribution. Part 4: 6:00 Nebraska after 40 years decides that Defined Contribution is out… Part 4: 7:00 Study on Pension vs. 401K Part 4: 8:00 Nebraska vs. Corporate America. Part 4: 9:00 How Corporate America wants retirement to work Part 4: 9:25 Back to a Pension except the Employees take on all the liability. Why do higher earners get better Returns? Part 3: 7:25 "… Bottom 20% earners get 4% return Top 20% earners gets 30% Return… Yield Disparity…" Part 3: 3:55 (the way to do it) Part 3: 4:46 (the way not to do it) What is the status of retirement plans in US: Part 3: 9:30 "50% do not have retirements… Average Families Account balance is $29,000…" How much do you need to retire? Part 3: 10:50 saving rates for the boomers and life expectancy. Part 3: 12:20 "… Need 15-18% of pay put away for retirement…" Part 3: 14:00 ‘401K leakage’ Shift in where the pay comes from Part 4: 2:55 I watched this on PBS and was entranced. Below are the time of some of the parts I really liked. Just a month or so before I was talking with a colleague and said that I do not think the 401K numbers work out for me. Below are directions to some of the best sections By the Part and a time in minutes and seconds. If you watch nothing else check out “Who should manage your retirement” and “Pension VS. 401K Defined Contribution”.

Who should manage your retirement?
Part 3: 14:30 ‘ ask CEO about letting the water boy manage the corporate retirement account’
Part 3: 2:20 (how a 401k works)

Pension VS. 401K Defined Contribution.
Part 4: 6:00 Nebraska after 40 years decides that Defined Contribution is out…
Part 4: 7:00 Study on Pension vs. 401K
Part 4: 8:00 Nebraska vs. Corporate America.
Part 4: 9:00 How Corporate America wants retirement to work
Part 4: 9:25 Back to a Pension except the Employees take on all the liability.

Why do higher earners get better Returns?
Part 3: 7:25 “… Bottom 20% earners get 4% return Top 20% earners gets 30% Return… Yield Disparity…”
Part 3: 3:55 (the way to do it)
Part 3: 4:46 (the way not to do it)

What is the status of retirement plans in US:
Part 3: 9:30 “50% do not have retirements… Average Families Account balance is $29,000…”

How much do you need to retire?
Part 3: 10:50 saving rates for the boomers and life expectancy.
Part 3: 12:20 “… Need 15-18% of pay put away for retirement…”
Part 3: 14:00 ‘401K leakage’

Shift in where the pay comes from Part 4: 2:55

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