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Diane Margolis speaks to the Retirement Planning Club meeting at the Newton Free Library about Intergenerational Cohousing Communities.

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Literature promoting Newton Free Library’s final speaker for the Retirement Planning Club for Women on January 20, 2010

A Retirement Planning Calculator Can Help You to Retire With Money

If you are one of the many retired people managing their own self directed accounts, you need to find yourself a good retirement calculator. But even if you’re young and just starting to work, you need to begin planning for your future retirement. How much money will you have to retire on if you continue to save and invest at your current rate? This is what a good retirement planning calculator will help you to figure out.

Very few things are certain in life. Not your current salary. Not your current rate of return on your investments. Not your good health. All of these things are variables that can change in an instant. Nevertheless, the purpose of creating a retirement plan for yourself is to help to give yourself the best odds of being able to live the good life when you retire. A retirement calculator will help you to do this, but you need a few prerequisites to get started.

How old are you now and when do you plan on retiring? The bigger the distance between these two figures, the greater the choices you have in your options and the greater the odds are that you will be successful. On the other hand, if you are age 60 and plan to retire at age 65, a retirement calculator will not help you much. It will be able to tell you what your income will be when you retire, but aside from that, it won’t be of much use. On the other hand, if you are 30 years old and plannig to retire at age 65, a retirement calculator can help you a lot. It can tell you what interest rates you need inn order to meet your desired income targets. It can tell you if you can accomplish your goals with conservative investments or whether you need to take a chance on riskier investments that will normally compound at higher interest rates. An excellent retirement calculator will also let you try out different retirement dates to see how they will impact your future income. You may find that you can retire much sooner than you thought you would.

What is the minimum amount of money you need at retirement? This is a different question than how much money you would like to have. The minimum amount calculation takes into account the cost of basic human needs and services such as – food, shelter, health care, and so on. A good retirement calculator will look at what you’re spending now on these items and extrapolate their costs into the future, taking into account inflation and other cost of living variables such as age. The calculator may alert you that what you thought was necessary to maintain your current standard of living will be, in fact, woefully inadequate 35 years from now. Having this knowledge in hand will let you adjust your savings plan in time to make a difference.

Once you’re retire, how much money can you safely withdraw without significantly impacting your principal? The principal is your retirement lifeblood. If it disappears, so does your monthly income. The best calculators will let you “play” with the principal amounts and desired monthly income amounts until you are satisfied that the periodic amounts you withdraw, will last you for your lifetime.

Everyone, who is not yet retired, should plug these retirement variables into a calculator at least once a year to ensure that their retirement plan is still on track. You do not want to discover any negative financial surprises when you are finally ready to retire. In fact, even if you are retired, it’s always a good idea to periodically take stock of and reassess your financial condition.

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