In Retirement Planning, Don’t Forget to Do the Emotional Math, Too

Date: Nov 29 2012

Filed under: Retirement

retirement planningTalk to a typical financial advisor, and you’d think that retirement planning was an exact science. Sophisticated financial calculators will spit out numbers down to the penny, offering you the appearance of being able to calculate almost to the day when you’ll be ready to quit working for good.

Reality, however, isn’t nearly as exact. Calculators are only as good as the assumptions that they make, and they never incorporate every aspect of what actually happens over a lifetime of saving and…

In Retirement Planning, Don’t Forget to Do the Emotional Math, Too originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-11-28T15:22:00Z.

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