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What retirement crisis? It’s all good

What retirement crisis? It’s all good

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What retirement crisis? It’s all goodAlmost 70% of women said spending time with their grandchildren was a top retirement goal. Worried about your lack of retirement savings? Take solace from this: A majority of those who are already in retirement say it’s not as financially stressful as you may think, according to a new survey.

Fully 79% of retirees at all income levels said it’s easier than they thought to manage their savings in retirement and to “adapt their lifestyle based on their finances, if necessary,” according to a new survey of 12,000 preretirees and retirees aged 55 to 80, at all income levels (all are participants in a defined-contribution plan), conducted by Greenwald & Associates Inc. for Fidelity Investments, in collaboration with the Stanford Center on Longevity.

That’s not all. A whopping 85% of the retirees surveyed said retirement has been the most rewarding time of their lives — and that sentiment held up […]

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Life lessons from a life-affirming heart attack

Life lessons from a life-affirming heart attack

Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Retirement

Life lessons from a life-affirming heart attackYou can’t judge the real impact of a life-changing event until you’ve lived some life afterwards. Only then can you take stock and measure the size of and commitment to the change.

Five years ago last week, I suffered a heart attack, caused when a building clot broke free, floated downstream until it got stuck, and created a 100% blockage in the artery known by cardiologists as “the widowmaker.”

The changes I expected in the immediate aftermath and a year after the event are, in some respects, different from the reality I live with today. (Read the column I wrote upon first returning to work) , and the column I wrote a year later.)

But life itself is a series of life-altering events. For example, a divorce completed early this year — after 30 years of marriage — was every bit as unexpected as the heart attack; it just wasn’t as […]

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