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On the Web:
AARP American Association of
Retired Persons is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization advocacy group for older
Americans. The site provides much information of interest.
Financial
Facts Tool Kit The Securities & Exchange Commission
provides information aimed at helping people save for retirement.
The site has "Tools to Get Started," "Tools to
Understanding Investment Choices," "Tools to Manage Your Money
and Investments," and "Getting More Information."
Index of Planning Tools Click on the
"Retirement" link. From Bank of America.
Investment FAQ Answers
to your questions on investments and personal finance, stocks, bonds,
options, discount brokers, information sources, retirement plans, life
insurance, etc. Investment FAQ claims to give an "unbiased
introduction and reference to investing." The
tour
for beginners includes pointers to pages with advice, introductions
to stocks and bonds, and helpful reading material.
Prudential Retirement
Planning The site advertises Prudential products but provides useful
information like the retirement planning quiz, explanations of various retirement plans,
the role of life insurance in retirement planning, and inflation and tax computation.
Quicken.com Retirement The
financial software publisher provides a complete site for retirement related information.
Articles and news as well as sections on Getting Started, Building a Plan, Roth IRAs,
Stocks, Social Security, Pension Plans, and more. Quicken products are prominently
advertised but the information is worthwhile.
Vanguard Retirement Center Geared to
Vanguard investments but a good general source of
information about retirement investing.
In the Library:
The Library provides a variety of valuable resources on retirement planning and
retirement.
Click on a title to view the availability status or to place a hold
on the book.
Try these additional subject headings: Retirement Income Forecasting,
Retirement Income Planning, Retirement Planning, or Retirees—Finance.
Go to the Library
catalog
On the Library network:
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Infotrac OneFile
A large periodicals database featuring the full
text and citations for newspaper and magazine
articles; includes many financial & consumer
publications.
Search for articles on retirement and retirement investing.
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Newsbank
Search for full text newspaper articles on
retirement. Consists of two databases:
America’s Newspapers, which indexes the full
text of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune,
Christian Science Monitor, Orange County
Register, San Diego Union-Tribune, USA Today,
the Washington Post, and the San Francisco
Chronicle from roughly 1985 to the present; and
Noticias en Español, which provides full
text articles in Spanish.
Good subject headings to use include: Personal Finance, Retirement Pensions, Retirement
Benefits, Retirement Investing, Portfolio Management, Retirement Income, and Investments.
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