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Retirement Landscape
Retirement has become a normative feature of the life course – permissible, even desirable in the eyes of individual as well as society. This transition though, from ‘working-to-earn’ to a ‘cease-work’ phase, is a big challenge as this change affects life in all its dimensions. It is a difficult & complex decision to handle because resources have to be arranged to sustain a desirable lifestyle for an uncertainly long period – in absence of earned income. A rushed & surface-level approach could lead to a situation from which there is no coming back. But, if done well, retirement can transition to a productive phase, in which there is more purpose to life than just chasing money.
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Retirement Landscape
Retirement has become a normative feature of the life course – permissible, even desirable in the eyes of individual as well as society. This transition though, from ‘working-to-earn’ to a ‘cease-work’ phase, is a big challenge as this change affects life in all its dimensions. It is a difficult & complex decision to handle because…
Preparing for Retirement
Increase in life expectancy & reducing job tenure are building into a serious retirement challenge for Indians. Absence of social security & slow job creation means that people will have to fend for themselves in old age. Retirement income shortfall could become significant if one factors in inflation over retirement period, that keeps getting longer.…
Planning the Retirement
Fewer than 5% ever retire with financial security because the challenge of secure retirement demands making known, short-term sacrifices to reach an unknown, long-term goal. The solution to this seemingly insurmountable problem lies in twin power of frugality & basic investing. Retirement Plan is simply a case of feathering the nest egg by maximising savings…
Retirement Finances – Before & After
Long-term goals happen ONLY if you proactively make them happen but making known, short-term sacrifices to reach unknown, long-term destination, is no easy ask. The answer to retirement – trickiest & most long term of all life goals – could lie in transforming inconvenience of sacrifices into desire for an independent retired life. Such desire…
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